This has been my favorite project to date. I had been looking for a dresser for a few
months. Garage sales, resale shops,
Goodwill; I could not find what I wanted anywhere! Finally, in July, I found this treasure at
Goodwill:
Sure, it is a little beat up and looks rough around the
edges, but all of the drawers work, and it is exactly the type of dresser I had
been searching for.
I bought this dresser for $20
As you can see from the picture, some of the drawers looked
a little crooked, so before I painted, I took time to figure out which drawer
went in which spot the best. Once I
figured that out, I labeled them so that I would remember when putting them
back in. I bought a few cans of black
and pink spray paint from Wal-Mart (roughly $5, I bought the cheap stuff). I removed the hardware from the dresser and
began the transformation. I painted the
dresser itself black. The drawers I
alternated pink and black (3 pink, 2 black).
It was incredibly humid outside as a storm was coming in,
which made spray painting a chore. Every
time I sprayed, it was as if the paint just sat in the air. Needless to say, even with a sheet down on
the garage floor, the paint floated around so much; it put a nice pink coat on
part of the garage floor! I did the
first 2 coats the day after I bought the dresser, and then finished with the
last 2 coats the next afternoon. I did
not sand the dresser; I only wiped it down with a clean rag before painting. Once the paint was dry the second day, I put
all the hardware back on (I didn’t have to buy new hardware because I like what
it already had on it! Bonus!) and then
moved the dresser into Selah’s room. The dresser was missing a panel under the bottom drawer, so I stapled black fabric that I already had (for a future Pinterest project) to replace it.
I am absolutely in love with the way this turned out. It is not perfect but it serves its
purpose. And the best part about it
is: $20 dresser + $5 spray-paint = $25 awesome
dresser. I’d say $25 well spent!
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