For years
we had these two shelving units in out guest bedroom with some crafting
supplies in them. But these shelves were super cheap and falling apart, I
decided enough was enough it needed to be replaced, and preferably with
something with more storage, my crafting supplies are growing. I bought this green and flowery dresser from
Goodwill for $20 bucks, oh yeah.
The project started off pretty good
I took the hardware off and started sanding. I thought it would be a great semi
easy up-cycle. I mean come on I had a sander I would just sand off the paint,
right? WRONG!!! I was so so wrong after hours of trying to sand that down I was
sitting dejectedly on the couch and my mom goes “why don’t you use a
stripper?” Bam my problems were solved
but alas it wasn’t a easy as it sounds but it got the work done. The stripper
worked and it easily got the paint off, on the flat smooth surfaces. On the
more detailed parts of the dresser, mainly the drawers it was much harder to
get all of the stripper off the dresser.
Ok so FINALLY I was ready to move on to paint I used a roller on the
flat surfaces and paintbrush on the detailed parts. Using these tools I was not that happy with
the brush strokes, so I bought a paint sprayer. When I started to use the
sprayer things were going great woohoo.
And finally after probably 5 coats 3 with the roller and paintbrush and
2 with the sprayer I was ready for the topcoat. Now I love topcoats some
bloggers don’t like the “plastic feel” but I really like it. To me it feels like a finished piece of
furniture. After I was done with the main dresser I used steal wool the hard
ware and used brushed nickel spray paint, I put on 3 coats of the spray paint
and the hardware looked great.
( I apologize for the final pictures I was so excited I moved the dresser into the closet before I took pics :( sorry)
At long last I was done I moved the
dresser into the guest bedroom closet, me and mom had to really work to get it
in there my margins for getting it in weren’t that great. But now it fits and I
have ample room for my craft supplies and more, which I plan to fill up.
COMING UP NEXT TIME:
Chalk paint on furniture. OHHH AHHH
