Since half scale furniture can be hard to come by, I’ve been collecting a lot of Cassidy Creations kits, mostly off eBay. I’m planning to build a bunch of them to go in the almost finished Queen Anne Rowhouse, but these first two might end up in other houses.

The first is a washstand that I bought already assembled. I have another of these in the package but the price on this was decent and it looked good in the pictures. Or so I thought. Apparently I didn’t look at the pictures carefully enough (or saw what I wanted to see!) because the washstand was in pretty rough shape — stained a horrid yellow color, coated with polyurethane and rough to the touch, and the metal pieces had all rusted creating black streaks in the wood. Also the door was poorly hinged and wouldn’t stay shut.

I took it apart, removed the metal pieces, and sanded heavily.

Then I painted all the pieces off-white.

I started sanding intending to do a second coat, but liked the distressed look with the yellow stain showing through, so decided to leave it this way. The drawers open, but I glued in the door since it had been damaged by the original pin-hinging. The pulls were leftover from my SDK Miniatures modern kitchen kit — they’re small wooden cylinders that I painted matte black.

I thought I might use this in the Rowhouse attic (above), but later decided it’s a better fit for the puzzle house, which has a pastel, country, almost shabby chic thing going on. I rearranged the bedroom furniture to make room for it near the window.

Still need to add a little towel to the bar, maybe something white with a blue stripe.

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