- If Gold Is Expensize then My Silver Leaf Is Priceless ;)

Simply, I love silver leaf furniture. Perhaps one of the reasons I chose my blog's name was my admiration for my silver leaf project. After I finished it, the dresser looked so expensive that I thought man I do have champagne taste :)

So now let me show you the before and after pictures. For instructions on how to apply silver leaf check out this project the only difference is I applied silver spray paint before the step number 1.

Update: Since I'm getting alot of emails asking me how I've done it, where did I get the silver leaf and all tips and tricks ( I know I'm no expert but done the same dresser 3 times lol),so I will write soon a post answering all your questions.So any more question please go ahead and write it in the comment box...thx

Well not so much a before picture, I realized that I didn't take a before picture after I already started the spray paint

                    


                                                

                                                    
                                              

I'll tell you a secret, this was my first silver leaf project ever and it wasn't that easy. I applied 3 times the silver leaf over that dresser.First time , I didn't like the way it turned out to be it was like a chessboard. Second time, I applied another layer of silver leaf over the first one so I can break that chessboard pattern but it was a very bad idea, it was all wrinkly so I used my sander and removed both layers. Third and it was the final one and it turned out prettay ( or I gave up and I convinced my self it is pretty lol)

For the small details and curves of the drawers for some reason silver leaf didnt stick so I applied Rub N Buff , like Kate from Centsationalgirl did centsationalgirl .

Last but not least, I want to thank Kate from Centsational girl and Marian from MissMustardseed for answering my questions about how to glaze this dresser, even though I didn't use any glaze ( I did some trial and the glaze hide all the shine of silver leaf which is not what I wanted for this project but for other pieces I will definitely use some glaze to tone the shine of the silver leaf down)

Hope you like my dresser cause I'm in love with it :)

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