My first solid piece of furniture...black distressed

This was my first solid piece of furniture that I took on as a project. Lane brand, solid wood spectacular find for $30! I knew I wanted to try out distressing, but I wanted to use regular latex black paint instead of the expensive chalk paint first just to see if I would even like doing these sort of project.

I didn't document as well as I should've as far as products used, but I basically sanded, primed, distressed, painted, distressed, then used a wood color pen to color the distressed areas. Well, technically, my niece primed it for me, and painted it for me. But in between the priming and painting, I roughed it up with some sand paper around the edges/corners. Then she painted it black and I roughed it up again with some sand paper (very light grit). Then I took a wood color pen and colored in the parts that I had sanded so it looked like the wood showing through instead of white or light colored wood.

The gold latch is to keep the little ones out. I haven't decided yet if I want to paint the hardware brass or paint the brass a different color. You know, brass is back! Not sure how I feel about that yet. I think a little bit excited.