I have had a sewing box for some years that never really had a home. It has beautiful, if slightly faded, lilac satin lining and inside the lid is beautiful embroidery commemorating the coronation in 1937. The outside was very battered! Then I bought another one! Well, it was equally pretty inside, with dusky pink lining and padded areas inside the lid for needles etc. However, it too was shabby outside and crying out for a chalk paint rescue. I could also see that now I had two, they could be a pair of slightly different bedside tables.
So, never one to hold back with the chalk paint, I got to work. After one coat of Grand Illusions Vintage paint in Stockholm, which is a pale blue, I realised I should have done a first coat of Polyvine Dead Flat Wax Finish varnish. Without this, the original varnish on the piece is likely to bleed through and turn it yellow! I then coated both with the Polyvine, and then two more coats of chalk paint, followed by a final coat of Polyvine. Here are the results:
After one coat, not covering very well and starting to leak the old varnish.
These are going into a bedroom in my B&B, and although I have coasters beside the bed, guests prefer to bypass them and make their mark with wet glasses, so the coat of varnish is essential. The inside of both sewing boxes was so pretty, if a bit faded, I decided to leave them as they were. Inside the lid of one is the beautiful embroidery commemorating George lV's coronation.
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