a lovely client’s request: lighten (and glam) up this piece from her mother’s home. 

before and after:

and some details:

benjamin moore cameo white #915, with raw umber glaze and wax…liquid leaf and then gold leaf, aged, on the fillets and pulls.

(i’m hoping to have on-site photos soon, but it’s headed out of town to a beautiful breakfast room in jackson, mississippi.)

a little hardware re-do 101: with your exacto knife, make X-shaped holes in the bottom a box.  keeping each piece attached to its own screw, push through.