A lady asked my husband to take this dresser to the dump for her. He brought it home and I immediately wanted to try and make it better. But it was missing a drawer and it looked kinda rough. I asked my DH about it and he said that the lady had the extra drawer and he would ask her if I could have it and if she wouldn’t mind us keeping it. I picked the drawer up the next day and went to work.
First I pulled off all of these lovely plastic things. They came off really easily, then I patched, sanded and painted the holes/ drawers.
then I cleaned, scrubbed and otherwise disinfected the entire thing.
I decided to keep the old handles, I kind of liked them, plus they just don’t make things like this anymore. I know some of you are thinking that there is a reason for that. BUT I kind of think they’re charming. Anyways I did spray paint them a nice black color. Then I sanded and painted my guts out.
And here she is now. I didn’t get a chance to take pictures of it before it was put in my girls room, but I think you get the idea.
Again
BEFORE
AFTER
Someday I imagine it painted a nice red color and used in our family room under our t.v. holding DVD’s and the like. But for now it’s still a dresser.
4 comments:
It's beautiful! Very nice work.
Nicely done! I am super jealous because we need a dresser and the only ones our Good Will had were from the Miami Vice period of the 80s and I am not talented to do anything with that.
That is Amazing!
You should show the finished picture to the lady who was getting rid of it. I bet she won't even believe it was the same dresser. Not to mention she'll kick herself for getting rid of a nice solid piece of furniture...or maybe she makes enough that she doesn't care. Either way, great work!
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