Campaigning for Neutral Campaign Furniture

Campaign Furniture BEFORE shots:

 Hard to see here, but they are on either side of the bed in the guest room acting as nightstands

The taller one had a pretty bad paint job since I was rushed to have it done before a party. I didn’t even bother to put all of the hardware back on since I had big plans to add more coats of paint. However, once it was parked in the bedroom, I never bothered with it again.  I am pretty sure not having the hardware on is a sin when it comes to campaign furniture. Perhaps as bad as having a jewelry box full of Tiffany jewelrey and not wearing it.

Bad photo- but you get the idea!

Like many campaigns, their promises fell short. Literally…the shorter one sat on the left side of the bed- where you couldn’t even see it’s beauty! Imagine all of that beautiful hardware going to waste? But perhaps the biggest fail was that the drawers were empty. What, what? I had 8 perfectly good drawers sitting in the room with no storage purpose?!?

A couple coats of a neutral creamy white (gotta love a gallon of neutral oops paint) and now the furniture is in harmony with the room. With a little gold spraypaint, the hardware is gleaming. It lives in the family room and serves as my craft and wrapping corral. Ah, 5 drawers filled with arts-and-craft-odds-and-ends for a one-stop-shop when I am feeling crafty or need to wrap a present.

I used the same creamy white paint on the smaller 3-drawer nighstand in the guest room. This allows the navy accent wall to provide the bold backdrop. After attempting a Brasso cleaning, the hardware got a light dusting of metallic gold spray paint.

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