Thursday, May 23, 2013

Little dresser all dressed up

I recently found a little dresser for Emery at a garage sale for $8. There were no scratches, the drawers worked well, and it looked barely used. All it needed was a little sprucing up. I snapped a before-ish picture as an afterthought but you get the idea of what it looked like.

Before:


A few coats of paint later and ta-da! Here's the after:


The knobs still need some work. I went to Home Depot last night to buy new ones but the bottom two knobs are more narrow than any of the options at HD. I didn't feel like filling the old holes, re-touching the paint, then drilling new ones, so I just spray painted them black until I find other options I like better.

I love seeing furniture re-dos. Betterafter.net is a blog I follow that posts people's before and afters and it is really fun to see the transformations. Plus I think the blogger is funny. I was excited to try one of my own and this was a nice, easy first time project.

My next project is a tall, narrow cabinet that's been sitting in my garage for months that I don't know what to do with. I keep waiting for inspiration to hit but it hasn't. Maybe that means I should just get rid of it? Or I just need to stop fretting about it, slap some paint on it and bring it in my house so it can start being useful instead of just collecting dust.

2 comments:

  1. oh my gosh! I LOVE the yellow! It is so darling, will you redo all of my furniture... please?!

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  2. thats from Whitney, not Tobin, Although I am sure he thinks it's darling as well :)

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