Chinoiserie Furniture Project
So, I've got this piece of furniture, not really a dresser as it has only drawers on the bottom and shelves on the top - maybe a small hutch? - and it's going to hold my tea stuff and sit in the dining room. It's right now just a plain lacquered wood and I'd like to repaint it. In looking for inspiration, I've found that I kind of dig Chinoiserie and would like to make it look "Asian". I can't make it 'true' Asian as it's not got the right lines, hence the 'fake Asian' look of Chinoiserie.
Here are example images of furniture items similar to mine (no pics of mine as it's in two pieces right now in the garage), but mine isn't made to look 'vintage' or have those extra wood slats in the back panel, it's just that same basic shape with two doors and 3 shelves and a little wavy top piece:
I'm just not sure what colours to paint it. Eventually we'd like to have hardwood floors, and are thinking of grey & purple for the living room (which is connected to the dining room, where this item will be). I think any colour I choose will work, though, as it's likely one of the following: black, red, teal, yellow, or a combination thereof. If I go black, I'm going to use gold paint to make some details; if I use red, maybe gold or black. If I do a combo, it'd be the outer body one color with the inside the shelves/back board another. Red could be red-red, like lacquer, or more of that vermillion red used in Asian furniture.
Two-tone idea
"Red" colour like this
Classic black and gold
This one for the colours: yellow, teal, or green
All one colour (not white) but with a stencil in the back, something like this bookshelf
Two-tone and then this sort of detail on the front doors (though the doors aren't square...)
Happy to see any other references/ideas you guys might have!
Just wanted to know what you guys thought, maybe help me decide.
I hope to get this done by the end of August, as I told myself I can't buy any more tea stuff until this is finished.
Here are example images of furniture items similar to mine (no pics of mine as it's in two pieces right now in the garage), but mine isn't made to look 'vintage' or have those extra wood slats in the back panel, it's just that same basic shape with two doors and 3 shelves and a little wavy top piece:
I'm just not sure what colours to paint it. Eventually we'd like to have hardwood floors, and are thinking of grey & purple for the living room (which is connected to the dining room, where this item will be). I think any colour I choose will work, though, as it's likely one of the following: black, red, teal, yellow, or a combination thereof. If I go black, I'm going to use gold paint to make some details; if I use red, maybe gold or black. If I do a combo, it'd be the outer body one color with the inside the shelves/back board another. Red could be red-red, like lacquer, or more of that vermillion red used in Asian furniture.
Two-tone idea
"Red" colour like this
Classic black and gold
This one for the colours: yellow, teal, or green
All one colour (not white) but with a stencil in the back, something like this bookshelf
Two-tone and then this sort of detail on the front doors (though the doors aren't square...)
Happy to see any other references/ideas you guys might have!
Just wanted to know what you guys thought, maybe help me decide.
I hope to get this done by the end of August, as I told myself I can't buy any more tea stuff until this is finished.