queen anne dresser :: grand finale

I love the contrast of the Annie Sloan distressed shell and the dark waxed drawers. Keeps the antique vibe while bringing in a country feel.

don’t you love when life knocks you for a few loops? i got the flu shot, and low and behold, got a 4 day mini flu. at least it wasn’t the whole shebang, but 4 days of fever es no bueno, as we like to say in so cal.

so, i took a few weeks to catch up at work and family, and finally finished this dresser this past weekend! check out Queen Anne dresser how-to part 1 and Queen Anne dresser how-to part 2 of this tutorial.

The finished Queen Anne dresser

I continued to dab Annie Sloan dark wax and buffing into the crevices.

I love the contrast of the Annie Sloan distressed shell and the dark waxed drawers. Keeps the antique vibe while bringing in a country feel.

I still haven’t quite mastered how to get a look that doesn’t look so vertical…you’re supposed to sand with the grain, but that leaves the markings so apparent. Perhaps a finer sand paper in stages to get less-noticeable lines. But see the left side on the above photo? I wish it didn’t have such evident vertical lines. Oh well!

The drawer fronts were still in really good shape, considering this piece is nearly 100 years old. So I chose to keep the drawers as natural as possible. I love the contrast.