Pile O' Furniture

So, as I prepare to move in to an apartment (eventually/maybe/one day/hopefully...) I've been slowly collecting things. This set of furniture I received from my grandmother. Whose mother owned it when she was a child. So it's old, and ok-quality, but it wasn't the best-made furniture of the time. Since I wasn't a fan of the cream enamel and gold trim coloring, I had to think of something else. Stripping didn't work, because the pain was enamel. Therefore, I decided to re-paint. Before re-painting though, I had to clean, and strip.




I also had to peel off the nasty old drawer paper. It was sticky and I think mouses nested in it and the color was fading/running, so there was no choice. I used the stripper to loosen it up. Hint to anyone stripping furniture: DO NOT get to excited when you start pulling this paper off. The contact paper pulled out so quickly it flung some not-dried stripper into my eyes, and I went running through the house, freaking out and dousing my eyes in water. I was okay int he end, but it was nooooot fun,e specially because my eyes kept burning slightly...I was truly terrified for a moment, thought I was going to go blind because of my stupidity.  Fun times.

Yeah, who knew this could be so dangerous?

 First finished product (couldn't paint the top because of the surface...I mean, I can scrub paint off of it even after it's dried).















This one is semi-finished, but I sort of like the contrast of the cream and brown. I've been trying to decide if I want to leave it like this (and so do the vanity-desk the same way) or If I want to go ahead and paint everything brown, leaving those white tops and the gold-cream-antinque-ish handles the way they are. Thoughts, comments, suggestions?