I Love Antique Style, But not Antique Price Decor!
When I recently undertook remodeling my bathroom and bath tub, I wanted to make it look more like me. I moved into a relatively modern style home, but there's just one problem. I'm an antique lover! I love the antique style with furnishings and bathroom fixtures, but I can't always afford the antique price. I have found ways to get around this price problem however, while still keeping the antique style interior design theme going in my home. There are some excellent replicas out there, which give me the warm antique style feeling I'm after, but these pieces are not sold at the genuine antique prices. Genuine antique articles are hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, and who can really afford that?
So when I decided that the built in contemporary tub in my bathroom needed to go and I wanted a great free standing bathtub with claw feet, I knew I needed to find a tub I could afford. I not only needed to fix the wall where the built in tub was, I needed to buy a new bathtub, so discounts and sale prices were a must. For a specialty item like discount clawfoot tubs, I have always had better luck looking online than going to the local home improvement stores. These stores usually carry more traditional and modern styles, and don't cater much to antique style lovers like myself. But there are more specialty stores if you look online, and I found the perfect clawfoot bathtub at a store which not only had a great selection of antique replica tubs, but they also gave me free shipping.
Since I got free shipping on top of a discount price for my new Cast Iron bathtub with claw feet, I actually had a little money left over to purchase a new mirror to hang over the vanity in my bathroom. I found the perfect tarnished silver framed mirror, and the silver coloring matches the claw feet on my new bath tub. Now that the wall where the built in tub has been refinished, I hung some Victorian wall paper in the bathroom, and with the new tub and mirror, it's the antique style bathroom I've been dreaming about. I'm so glad I looked online for my antique replica furniture, and stretched my dollars as far as they could go.
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Hi, how do I put just a clear coat of enamel on an old cast iron claw foot tub?
I stupidly used this really abrasive cleaning chemical (The Works) on my neighbors antique cast iron claw foot tub. They could potentially get kicked out if the landlord finds out about this. We got this stuff at home depot to put new enamel on it but you cant use just the clear coat, it must be mixed with the white part. So if we did the bottom of the tub (the only part with the enamel stripped) it would be paper white while the rest of the tub would be off white, no good. All we need is some kind of clear coat enamel, where can I buy this?, cheaply as possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
This is not a DIY. ANYTHINg you try will make the problem worse. Either tell the landlord what you did, and hire a professional, or leave it alone and pay when you move.
If you "paint" on enamel, you're only making the repair more costly.
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