Saturday, June 05, 2010

Dresser makeover

This dresser has been around for as long as I can remember. I'm pretty sure my parents used it many moons ago. When I moved out and into the condo back in 2003, this dresser went with me and into our 9x9 closet. It spent many years hiding in that closet in its sad state but I wanted to change it up for use in our new office.

BEFORE

This was my second attempt at making over some furniture. I painted our desk as well which was a cherry wood color before, but I haven't taken any pictures yet. I'm not going to go into the details of how to paint furniture (a simple Google search will give you the answer) but it involved a little wood filler, sanding, priming with Kilz, painting and poly.

I used Benjamin Moore Cloud White in semi-gloss for the paint and it took three coats to get the best coverage. Since I used a latex paint, I needed to use a water-based polyurethane so I used the Minwax (in a blue can) semi-gloss finish. I did the first two coats with a can of the poly and a brush, but once it dried, it just didn't look right (and my dad warned me about that). I went ahead and bought a spray can for the last coat and it worked like a charm. A little more expensive, but much easier to work with.

And here's the finished product...


I went ahead and added glass knobs since there weren't any sort of handles/knobs before.


I also lined the drawers with a black & white patterned drawer liner that I found at Meijer.



It's being used in our office, which is SO not finished yet so a full office redo will be blogged at a later date.

3 comments:

Rachel A said...

you did a great job, it looks awesome!! Perfect for a future nursery ;)

Andrea said...

Looks really Good !! nice job!

Rachel L said...

awesome!!!