Hi Everyone!
In my last post I did a tour of my daughter, Ezrah's room. I showed a little cubby that I had made for her while I was pregnant to hang all of her dresses and while it was practical for hanging clothes it wasn't for the rest of her clothes. I was at the time keeping them in little bins underneath her crib and it just got to be a mess so I decided that she needed a dresser but I didn't want to pay a bunch of money for one. SO being the bargain shopper/DIYer that I am I decided to hunt one down for cheap and then redo it.
I ended up finding this one at goodwill for really cheap and I loved it! I think it's really cute and retro and all it needed was a new paint job! It is also great quality as it is quite heavy and has weight to it so it's not necessarily cheap quality! I thought it was a great find!
I usually use chalk paint to redo all my furniture because you don't have to do any stripping, it's a lot faster, and it helps give a distressed look to the finished product. For this dresser thought I didn't want to distress it, I just wanted a nice clean paint job so I decided to use regular paint. Because of this I had to strip it first. All I did was take sand paper (heavy grit) and gave it a good sand. I sanded with the grain, against the grain, and then with the grain again. This ensured that I covered all areas and the wood would be ready for paint.
This is what it looked like once I was finished sanding. Once I was finished I wiped it down with a wet rag and then let it sit a little while and then I took my vacuum with the brush attachment and vacuumed it to make sure that I got all dust that I might have missed with the rag.
This is the finished product! I did an ombre finish and I know it looks pretty subtle, which it is, but the picture isn't quite doing it justice. I painted the outside of it white and then the drawers, as you can see, are pink. The color I used is Behr High Maintenance. I painted the bottom draw in the true color of the paint. From there I added 10 spoonfuls of white for each drawer so that each drawer would be roughly 10 shades lighter than the last. I wasn't able to change out the handles yet because they are an odd size and I wasn't able to find a replacement yet so I may do it in the future if I come across something that I like and that fits! I am really happy with the way it turned out and the OCD in me is so happy to have drawers again for her clothes! I also didn't get rid of her cubby but I moved it to another room and I am going to be repurposing it for something else! Stay tuned ;)
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