Pottery Barn Finish applied to my 30 year old bedroom suite
My dad bought this bedroom suite for me when I was a teenager and it stayed at his house until he passed away 25 years later.
After he died I brought it to my house and set up a guest bedroom with it but he was a two-pack-a-day smoker all his life, he kept all the windows closed so his house had that sting-in-the-back-of-your-throat musty cigarette smell and that has seeped into the furniture over the years.
It's been in my house for 5 years and it still smells, it's making my house smell so I decided to paint it rather than give/throw it away.
So I tried the pottery barn finish from Black Sheep House's youtube tutorials. I primed it with a shellac odour-blocking primer and had to wash all my walls but the smell appears to be gone.
The orange stain is the before and the lighter colour is the after. It took me a good month but here we are and I think it looks great!
It's a bit of a shame to lose its original orange charm but the smell wasn't tolerable so this was the only real option I think.
I still need to get some new lamps and a different doona cover as it doesn't suit but overall I think it's ready for the next 30 years.