I fully admit, I have been working on this thing since January. Do not expect to ever see nailhead trim here again! It was such a huge project. I would work on it for a few days, get entirely frustrated with the nailhead trim, want to roll it into a ditch and burn it, and have to set it aside until I wanted to work on it again. I am not a meticulous detail gal. That is so obvious for those of you who know me. Here's the deal with nailhead trim:
- you have to make sure each small box of upholstery nail exactly matches in tone. There is a lot of variation according to batch.
- First you have to measure out and transfer an exact pattern from graph paper
- To nail it in, you have to hold it with needle nose pliers with your left hand while hammering with your right
- Many of the nails are weak and immediately go crooked and you have to pull it out and start with a new one.
- For each parallel set, you have to use a level and make minute adjustments with the hammer. So just know that I used the level about 5 million times.
I will say that I LOVE the way it turned out... and I put the nailhead trim on front and back so that this piece could go against a wall or be used as a coffee table. This is Kyle's favorite piece. It will be for sale at Fredericksburg, but he made me promise to put a ridiculous price on it so that if it doesn't sale we can put it in the cabin.
When I got this blanket box, it was plain jane light colored box with clunky seventies wooden pulls on the sides. The top was so fun to transform. I sanded, then I pickled, I took my creme brulee torch and burned streaks into it, I whipped it with chains, dropped tools on it, hammered the edges, and finally put 3 coats of dark wax on it.
The color here is Annie Sloan's Duck Egg with dark wax all over.
