Dresser Re-do

     I’m so bad about posting what I do!  Here is a little project I worked on in the dead of winter.  It was for my mom for Christmas, but she goes away, so I had it ready for her when she came home in April.  Yes, it took me a while to get to it.  Meh.  I’m a procrastinator.    

     I picked up this dresser at a yard sale last August.  For free.  Yes, I love that rock bottom price.  No haggling.  Friends of ours were moving their mother closer to where they lived and they told us to take what we wanted.  Well, I’ve wanted to paint a piece of furniture for some time now, so we took it!  Once I got it home life of course happened, so it sat in the living room collecting dust for months!

     After we got it all sanded (my boyfriend did this part) we went shopping for the perfect color.  We got this one at Lowe’s.  I love the beach house feel of it.  We had wooden drawer pulls at home so they got sanded up a bit too.

     I did two coats of paint.  It took weeks for it to dry.  It was the primer & paint all at once.  I like it. It gave good coverage.  It just stayed tacky for a bit.  The pulls I painted white, and I was going to finger paint teal and coral swirls on them, but alas, that didn’t look good.  Instead, I looked around my studio and thought “What can I paint on these pulls?” and then I grabbed the stack of DCWV Hey Sailor paper.  Between that and the nautical stuff I have laying around I was able to create some nifty pulls!

     My mother loved it.  It took her a couple weeks before she decided how she was going to use it, but now it has its own place and it is loved.

     Remember – comments are always welcome and so appreciated.  You have no idea!