To button or not to button...

On and off for the past few days I've been painting this box:


I like to use what I already have around so for the inside I went with, surprise, GOLD:

For the outside I'm using a blue/green color. It's so humid that it takes forever to dry between coats and since I didn't uses primer the black keeps showing through. I really want that gold to glow. Sigh. Gold gold gold.

I keep going back and forth on what I want the final thing to look like. I have already picked out buttons to glue all over the outside, but maybe it would be more, I don't know, elegant(?) if I painted a brocade pattern on it. Oh, yeah, brocade is the third wing of my personal craft trinity: Gold, Buttons, Brocade.