Things We Made: Dresser Transformation

I. Love. This. Project.

This is also an old project, but I took plenty of photos thinking, "you know, one day I should keep a blog record of all the crazy DIY stuff we do."

Funny how that works out.

Anyway, when my husband and I got married, we had both lived on our own previously so we had a big mash-up of furniture items since we both had furniture. Once baby number 2 was on the way and we bought our own home, we really wanted to make things special and nice. The dresser and crib that belonged to my oldest daughter were being re-distributed to the baby on the way, so the older one needed a dresser. She slready had a bed compliments of my husband's childhood so we didn't really want to just go buy a dresser or an all new bedroom set for her. We made the executive decision to treat ourselves to a brand-new, actually-matching master bedroom set. We sold off a lot of the random pieces but I had a nice, solid dresser just begging to be fixed up. It had a couple broken handles, and one of the legs was unstable from multiple moves, but I had BIG PLANS. Here is the "BEFORE" dresser.

Not great for a 3 year old girl... So I put my DIY hat on.

step 1:

Get rid of those legs. One was already wobbly, and the last thing we needed was another piece of furniture that little toys and laundry and dust bunnies could live under. We took off all the hardware and bought a few new drawer pulls to replace the broken ones. Then we took out the drawers. Here's the "skeleton".

So Step 2:

I needed to paint this bad boy. I used Valspar spray paint from Lowe's and chose an ivory and pink. I painted the main body ivory all over.

I laid the hardware out on some cardboard....

And sprayed!

Easy peasy. Much better. Ok, time to handle the drawers. I had something special in mind. First I did an all over ivory

I did a second coat after this. After it dried, I used pieces of cardboard to only spray paint the trim areas of the drawers pink. I was already loving the way it looked at this point.