Ross B Confused. Stiller.
With the pantry shelving proving, unexpectedly, to have hit-or-miss original finishes, I wondered what finish the vertical parts had? Ahhh! Shellac!
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And what finish did the ice chest door originally have?
Praise the Lord! Shellac!
Whew!
I can easily restore a shellac finish. The same cannot be said of a faux bois finish.
Stay tuned!
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It will look and feel refreshing once brought to their original shellac-ed selves.
Well, you can always redo the shellac and then turn the boards so the faux bois is facing up where it won’t be seen. Sorta reverse of what was original.
I don’t think that… rather moderate level of faux bois is particularly difficult to recreate. Paint a solid base colour, add the striated “wood grain” with gel stain and a brush, without taking particular care, finish off with a full coat of a lighter gel stain to get the “wood colour” and possibly shellac to finish it off – or use tinted shellac instead of the second gel stain. Proper faux bois finishes have a few more steps that tone down the graining and make it look more natural but I don’t think they’ve been included here.
Plenty of videos on the internet about those techniques!
I feel like the (not-quite faux bois) faux finish could be a later home owner redecorating, and not being very “Ross” about it, confusing the narrative.
I concur. It appeared to be much lower quality than the rest in the “public” parts of the house, and considering that the non-public parts of the house otherwise appeared to generally have cheaper-and-easier shellac over natural wood, those faux grain shelves in the pantry seem out of place.
Kudos to Ross for working hard to find the truth, though!
Thank goodness for more shellac! Awaiting more…. 🙂
Ross, could all the faux bois painted shelves and bit of wood from the carriage house be from the demolished blanket closet?
With all the alterations through the years, it seems they were keen to reuse materials and even store them for future use. Maybe the pantry shelves were damaged or they just added the “extra” shelves at some point.
The piece from the carriage house basement may have been discarded by a carpenter, then picked up by owner of the carriage house and used in their basement reno.
It would be interesting to know if the shelves match the blanket closet’s dimensions.
Hello, W!
I have the original drawings of the pantry, and what is in situ matches the drawings. So, I’ve no reason to think that the pantry has been change out.
Interesting thought though!