White Bookcase Breathes New Life!

I found a Diamond In The Rough!

It was a vintage bookcase with bad bleed-through! It cost $35 and included the wood shelves, door and some new, unused glass shelves. It needed a lot of love. The lady had misplaced the original hardware, so I will have to find some replacements.

What do you do when you have bleed-through of the stained wood or knot holes through the paint? You seal the whole piece with two coats of Minwax Polycrylic. This will stop any bleed-through to the surface of the new paint.  Whoever owned this before didn't know this. I continued on and painted the bookcase white with two more coats of latex.

Before photo. See the pink bleed-through?

I did toy with stripping the whole thing down first. I was really dragging my feet on this bookcase because of the work ahead of me. Just look at the mess with the door...

The paint would just peel off without any stripper. Needless to say, I still have a lot of work ahead of me on this door, however I was successful with the bookcase itself. The door will have to come at a later date.

But first, I knew this was going on carpet in our upstairs hall landing. Plus the base molding on the original piece was very large. So I sweet-talked Hubby into putting on an additional piece of molding. This did two things. It made the bookcase even more stable because the base became wider and it dressed the large plain original molding up a bit.

Added molding.

So here it is all decorated and in its new place, except for the door.

As viewed looking into the master bedroom.

One of my hatpin collections that I display in a teacup I covered. The rose I made out of ribbon.

The hat shade lamp is from Hobby Lobby. I added the tea cups by hanging with ribbon. Get it? A hat shade lamp with teacups and a teacup with hat pins!!

Another idea, if a person didn't want to use the door. The door could still be painted to match the bookcase and mirror added instead of the original glass. It could then be hung above the bookcase as wall art! The pieces would stay together and tell a different story! Just a thought.

NOTE: You should be able to click on most of the pictures to enlarge to see further details.
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