I’ve had this chest of pine drawers since I was a kid, solid, and nothing particularly wrong with her…

SO much pine!
However in our freshly painted bedroom the pine chest looked a little heavy and a little too woody on the polished Cyprus pine floors.
I’ve also been reading up for some time on “chalk paint” and it was the perfect afternoon makeover project (even if Wookie said we have other reno priorities).
I have also become really obsessed with the so-called “ombre” gradient type effect like so:

Livin’ the dream in Sydney’s (inner) western ‘burbs with a Wookie and a bossy cat.