isn’t that what we girls (pre-spanx, when we used to wear slips)(and yes, mrs. jones is that old) would say to each other to signal that lingerie was showing? or was it “snowing in florida”? it has been so long since an actual slip was part of our deshabille, i can’t remember. it was no slip, however, that my talented friend, designer anna baskin lattimore, and her lovely client chose this wonderful old wash-stand to transform into a bathroom vanity:
the only difficulty was that the old paint was not cooperating with the new plan, and so they asked me to help fix it. here is a before (with apologies for the bad flash/lighting):
i took a drawer to seabrook, where their resident paint-matching genius, denise, nailed down the color on her first try: benjamin moore’s paris rain, #1501. (she is the best!) after sanding back the peeling areas, i stippled in the fresh paint, and then coated the whole piece with low-luster varnish and finally paste wax to protect it from further damage and to retain its old furniture feel. a little tinted mylands was rubbed into the newly finished areas to give a bit of patina and bring the whole thing back together. after:
BoxwoodTerrace says
What a lovely vanity and what a romantic name for a paint color, “Paris Rain”. Beautiful work, as always (and I remember the days of slips too).
Deborah