OK, OK, I know, I haven’t been doing much furniture lately.  But I am thinking about getting back to doing more of it once my sale is over.  Honestly, that’s really going to depend on whether or not the pieces I have sell.  So we’ll see how that goes.

But meanwhile, I did have this bookcase waiting in the wings for a makeover.

I picked this up at a garage sale last year and it has been out in the carriage house ever since.

So as I was clearing out for the sale, I decided it was high time to get ‘er done.

First up, I removed the damaged fretwork with some help from my handyman Ken.  Even if it had been undamaged, I still think I would have removed it to update the look of the piece.

Next up I cleaned everything thoroughly, and then very lightly scuff sanded.

I followed that up with two coats of Dixie Belle’s Smoky Mountains.

This is such a gorgeous smoky blue green color.

It’s one of Dixie Belle’s Silk paints, so it has a built in primer and top coat.  I was a little bit worried that I may have bleed-thru issues caused by that original reddish stain, but the Silk paint did the trick without needing a separate blocking primer.  I also don’t have to add a topcoat, so after the two coats of Silk paint, this bookcase was almost done.

All I had to do was clean the glass, and then add some new knobs.

I chose these simple gold knobs to go with the new, more updated look.

And it was that easy.

What wasn’t so easy was getting good photos of it without lots of reflections in those glass doors.

I tried every angle.

I also tried getting a shot with the doors slightly ajar.

But the door on the left insisted on being all the way open, while the one on the right kept trying to close.

The best solution I came up with was to edit some of the reflections out using the Clone tool in Picmonkey.

Just don’t scrutinize those glass doors too closely.

What do you think, have I sufficiently refreshed this bookcase?  Leave a comment and let me know.

This piece is for sale, check out my ‘available for local sale‘ page for more details.  Any of you locals can see it in person at my sale later this week (I’m in a suburb of St. Paul, MN), unless someone snatches it up ahead of time.

I will be posting all of the sale details on Wednesday, so be sure to stay tuned!

As always, thank you to Dixie Belle Paint Co for providing the paint used on this bookcase.