Faux Painted Oak Chest of Drawers

Now the girls think I've lost my remaining few marbles buying this chest of drawers, but they need to learn that the fashion of decorative painting started somewhere in Georgian times. So this is a Georgian period chest of drawers made from fine-grained Baltic pine timber from Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia, which was then sent to the UK as ballast for early coal and iron exports. It was then made into beautiful furniture and joinery because of its straight grain.

Now the average hard-working Georgian farmer didn't want to purchase period oak for the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms, so they stipple painted the pine furniture, in this case, to look like oak. Fast forward to the 1970s / 80s and we stripped it all by the mile. There was a stripping shop on every corner in the UK and NZ and this chest of drawers was the lucky one that missed the caustic tank. Quite nice really. Anyway if you don't buy it, these girls will strip it and it will sell in a heartbeat... more is the pity.