Remember this printers drawer from Last year?  Well it now looks like the picture below.
In my first post about this project I said that I would keep the look of the wood, just clean it up a bit and not paint it.  Ha ha as you see I have changed my mind slightly (master of understatement!).  First of all I cleaned it, sanded it then painted it all over with a mix of Deep sung cream and Dark truffle.  Not one single piece of wood is actually straight and each section is a different size.  I did try to take out individual pieces of wood in order to increase some of the sections but this just broke the wood as they are all nailed in (at an angle).  Once it was all painted I added Tim Holtz tissue tapes, bits of stamped tissue paper and old adverts over the sides and edges.  I still didn’t quite like the result so changed my mind and went down the route of shabby chic.  The sections are quite small so I will be using the drawer to display some of my miniature mice and other such little items.

I painted it all white then pale blue and did a bit of sanding again so that some of the wood, tissue tape and adverts would still show through in places.  I have added some patterned paper to some sections and left some blank.

Here is a wee close up of one section which I will display a tiny pewter bird in nest pill box.

It is all taking rather a long time to do as I have found it rather difficult to position the tray in such a way to paint it without getting sore shoulders in the process.
Once it is all finished and on the wall I will take a few more photos.