Back in September the girl I visit taught who was moving offered this dresser to us. I thought it would be perfect as a dresser/changing table duo in Aiden's nursery so we snatched it up for 20 bucks.
Our first thought was to sand it down and stain it. My parents willingly kept it in their backyard and Trent would go over a day here and a day there, among everything else he had on his plate, for several weeks and would work on sanding it. Neither of us have any experience with sanding and this dresser has many beveled edges. Trent sanded the whole dresser (pretty much), but was worried about sanding the edges down too much as well as unevenly. It's very hard to sand beveled edges and keep them all even.
That's when we came up with a brilliant idea - to just paint it! So much easier!
We went to Home Depot with a gift card from our wedding 3 1/2 years ago (love it!) and picked up paintbrushes, primer, and paint. All of the walls in our apartment are completely white and we don't want to deal with painting them, just to have to paint them back whenever we move, so we knew we wanted to paint the dresser a fun color to add some color to the room.
We decided on a green color - Martha Stewart's Bay Leaf to be exact :)
Trent and I spent 2 days (just a few hours each) on this project. The first day was for the primer and the second day we painted. Then we went to Lowe's with another gift card from our wedding 3 1/2 years ago (love it!) and picked up new knobs. This was so fun and we are so pleased with our decision.
Check it out!
Again, before.
And after!
Looks pretty good, huh?! The color may be a little shocking for some people, but we really love it! And it was a needed "pop" of color in the nursery :)
We sanded parts here and there to give it a distressed look.
We moved the crib to the other side of the nursery to make more room and allow for both the glider and the recliner to be in there (we love having both).
We have a few finishing touches to make to the nursery (yes, Aiden is 2 months old..ha), but we are so pleased with how it is turning out :)
that is one of my favorite colors! LOVE it. we have 2 dressers and a nightstand that we need to redo this summer!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE it jess! I love the color!!
ReplyDeleteI love the color! It turned out so cute! And don't worry, Link is almost 10 months and his nursery still isn't completely finished. Whoops!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE IT! I recently did the exact same thing- found an old dresser, painted it green, and put the exact same hardware from Lowe's on it! How funny!
ReplyDeleteSo clever! It turned out great!!
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