box project. I took a storage box from Ikea and stained and painted it with an initial and some embellishments on it. 
this is the "Before" picture.
this is the "Before" picture.(albeit I did have to build it, with a little hair-pulling and some hammer-throwing)
this is the "After"
I was thinking about painting the whole thing a solid colour or cover it in some nice patterned paper, but in the end I wanted to keep the nice wood-grain, because otherwise I could have just bought a plastic or MDF box.
The whole thing was stained with water-based floor stain, "W" painted with acrylic gold paint, the leafy scrolls with oil paints, then the whole thing varnished with water based glue/varnishy stuff.
