Comments on: Zebra Painted French Provincial Dixie Dresser http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/archives/french-provincial-dresser Extraordinary Painted Furniture Ideas For Your Home Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:28:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/archives/french-provincial-dresser/comment-page-1#comment-364 admin Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:37:03 +0000 http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/?p=44#comment-364 Hi Joyce, I have had to learn the hard way with fermica. How I have found success with this material is to sand the fermica. This way it gives your paint something to grip to. Gripper can be purchased at home depot, and it is meant for concrete, but it grips on to anything. I use it for all my painted pieces. If you don't sand the fermica first, the paint peels right off. After you are finished painting, add polyurethene. I have found that using a foam roller evens out your finish perfectly. It was a tip passed on from a good friend, and it is the best painting tip I know. Another clear finish you can try is "Tough as Tile"- "Paint and tile finish" to the top of my furniture pieces, as they include a seperate clear gloss and white paint which you are supposed to mix together to apply to your tub. If you end up using this, be sure to use a foam brush to apply the clear gloss, but also leave yourself almost 2 weeks of drying time. I left my piece for a week, which I thought was long enough, only to stack furniture on top of my piece and it left marks. Because this clear gloss is meant for your bathtub it was impossible to sand. I will use it again, but this time, I will be sure to let my piece dry for a longer time. Hope this helps.... Meranda Hi Joyce,

I have had to learn the hard way with fermica. How I have found success with this material is to sand the fermica. This way it gives your paint something to grip to. Gripper can be purchased at home depot, and it is meant for concrete, but it grips on to anything. I use it for all my painted pieces. If you don’t sand the fermica first, the paint peels right off. After you are finished painting, add polyurethene. I have found that using a foam roller evens out your finish perfectly. It was a tip passed on from a good friend, and it is the best painting tip I know.

Another clear finish you can try is “Tough as Tile”- “Paint and tile finish” to the top of my furniture pieces, as they include a seperate clear gloss and white paint which you are supposed to mix together to apply to your tub. If you end up using this, be sure to use a foam brush to apply the clear gloss, but also leave yourself almost 2 weeks of drying time. I left my piece for a week, which I thought was long enough, only to stack furniture on top of my piece and it left marks. Because this clear gloss is meant for your bathtub it was impossible to sand. I will use it again, but this time, I will be sure to let my piece dry for a longer time.

Hope this helps…. Meranda

]]> By: joyce http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/archives/french-provincial-dresser/comment-page-1#comment-330 joyce Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:24:15 +0000 http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/?p=44#comment-330 I have the compleat dixie bedroom set for my 10 year old daughter and would like to redo it to last her through the years. Any suggestions? How did you get the paint to stick to the fermica? I have the compleat dixie bedroom set for my 10 year old daughter and would like to redo it to last her through the years. Any suggestions? How did you get the paint to stick to the fermica?

]]> By: admin http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/archives/french-provincial-dresser/comment-page-1#comment-145 admin Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:28:39 +0000 http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/?p=44#comment-145 Furniture reproductions of the French Louis styles became popular in the 1890's and 1900's in America. These pieces were quite high quality. They were often solid wood, and heavy. They looked very close to the Louis styles of the 1700's. If you love looking at French furniture, you should visit my French Authority site, as I list more French pieces there. You see another popularity of French "provincial" style furniture around the 40's and 50's. It was popular in the living rooms, and often seen in the bedrooms of children and so forth. You will eventually run into these sets at Flea Markets and Garage sales, as the children move away, and people are clearing out their homes. They are the perfect style to paint because they are not so boxy, but curvy which allows you to get away with more artsy decorative designs. After selling many of these dressers, I wouldn't suggest Dixie to be the higher quality. It is great to purchase until a better one comes along. Union city, or vintage Thomasville is fantastic. They are made of solid wood, and much higher end. John Widdicomb is a higher end designer who produced some beautiful pieces in the 40's. I have sold Dixie dressers before, and my only problems with their French provincial dressers are they expand in temperature differences. (Most woods do, when they are shifted from one extreme to another) Another, is the material isn't great. They have cheap laminated melamine tops, and the insides are not wood on most cases. One thing is for certain, French provincial furniture was so popular in the 40s and 50's, they are easy to run into second hand now! Also, there are higher and lower end designs, so if you keep your eyes open, you will find that expensive look you are after in a reproduction French provincial look at your local sales. Blessings! Meranda Furniture reproductions of the French Louis styles became popular in the 1890’s and 1900’s in America. These pieces were quite high quality. They were often solid wood, and heavy. They looked very close to the Louis styles of the 1700’s. If you love looking at French furniture, you should visit my French Authority site, as I list more French pieces there. You see another popularity of French “provincial” style furniture around the 40’s and 50’s. It was popular in the living rooms, and often seen in the bedrooms of children and so forth. You will eventually run into these sets at Flea Markets and Garage sales, as the children move away, and people are clearing out their homes. They are the perfect style to paint because they are not so boxy, but curvy which allows you to get away with more artsy decorative designs. After selling many of these dressers, I wouldn’t suggest Dixie to be the higher quality. It is great to purchase until a better one comes along. Union city, or vintage Thomasville is fantastic. They are made of solid wood, and much higher end. John Widdicomb is a higher end designer who produced some beautiful pieces in the 40’s. I have sold Dixie dressers before, and my only problems with their French provincial dressers are they expand in temperature differences. (Most woods do, when they are shifted from one extreme to another) Another, is the material isn’t great. They have cheap laminated melamine tops, and the insides are not wood on most cases. One thing is for certain, French provincial furniture was so popular in the 40s and 50’s, they are easy to run into second hand now! Also, there are higher and lower end designs, so if you keep your eyes open, you will find that expensive look you are after in a reproduction French provincial look at your local sales.

Blessings! Meranda

]]> By: Alanna http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/archives/french-provincial-dresser/comment-page-1#comment-135 Alanna Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:51:11 +0000 http://paintedfurnitureonline.com/?p=44#comment-135 I just bought one of these particular dressers at a yard sale and days later found a matching bedside table at a thrift store, I'd like to know more about them but am having a hard time finding any information about them online... any tips? I just bought one of these particular dressers at a yard sale and days later found a matching bedside table at a thrift store, I’d like to know more about them but am having a hard time finding any information about them online… any tips?

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