The Winner... and a New Project.

The winner is...hammered nickel! I have to give a big thank you to everyone who left comments. I was really tempted to try out the red and yellow suggestion, simply because I am all about doing the unexpected. If I were keeping Angelina for myself I probably would have painted the hardware a rusty orange color, but because she is going to the shop I decided to err on the more conservative, so I opted for silver instead {it's still unexpected, but not too in your face}. It was a really hard decision between the black and silver, but when it came down to it, I really liked the contrast of the silver on the black. I will really miss Angelina {though it will be nice to finally have the room to pull the cars into the garage now}. But, I am really looking forward to the next project...perhaps something I could call Brad, so that Angelina doesn't get lonely.

I ended up glazing the hardware so that it wasn't so brash.

I think it looks so much better now.

Here's a better pic of the glazing. And here's the full monty

And now for the project I have in the pipelines. It involves a certain, simple, Swedish bed {nice alliteration, eh?} and some faux, white leather. Here are some other clues:

My mind is swirling.

Square?

Slightly rounded?

With nailhead trim?

Or really big nailhead trim?

Or just simply tufted?

Decisions, decisions. Fortunately, these are the kind of decisions I like making. Stay tuned.

Meet Angelina

The feedback I recieved about painting the hardware for the dresser I've been working on was pretty much a unanimous "yes you can".
If the dresser were for myself I would have painted them no questions asked. But because it is going to the shop when it's done, I wanted to make sure that the handles would stand up everyday wear and tear before I tried to sell it.

Would you like to meet her?

This is Angelina!
{I call her that because she is sophisticated and beautiful, but also a little wild and audacious...no I didn't say bodacious}.





I painted the frame my favorite turquoise hue, Ocean Breeze by Krylon. I painted all of the drawers in a high gloss black, also Krylon, then stenciled them with a zebra stripes using a stensil I made { I bought stensil plastic from the craft store and then using a zebra printed shower curtain I already had, traced on the stripes and cut them out using an exacto knife. It ended up costing me about $4. Most of the zebra stripe stencils I saw online were retailing for $15-$24}.
Once the paint was dry, I...

glazed


and distressed

Then she was perfect...except for one thing.

No hardware.

I know that I have already appealed to the masses on the matter of {painting or not painting} the hardware, but I must appeal for advice once more...this time to help me decide what color to paint the hardware. {You know how when you've been working on a project for a really long time and things just start getting blurry and you get really confused and indecisive...no, that never happens to you? Well it happens to me all the time.} Here's where you come in.

Somehow I've managed to narrow down the color options to the following three:

turquoise



black


and silver





I need help on narrowing it down to just one. So, if you feel inclined to share, I'd love your input, cause Angelina is really looking forward to getting out of the garage and into the spotlight where she can dazzle and shine.