This project was "completed" a LONG time ago; however, I couldn't get the courage to post it to my projects until I was certain that this was the status that we were planning on leaving it in. The dresser was a mega-awesome find at ReStore in Loveland ($20). We loved the clean lines and even the original handles looked pretty neat.
We looked past the color, which was a horrible pea-green stain that had been applied to the wood. It was spotty and it took a couple hours of sanding to get it to a workable state.
We had to glue just a small corner that was splitting on one of the drawers. We figured with all the knicks and scratches the best solution was to paint it white.
Let's talk about the negative side of this project (sadly).
1. Do NOT buy cheap white paint. Walmart is a horrible place to buy paint. Don't skimp.
2. It was a mistake to sand it down to bare wood. You should only have to do that if you are planning on staining it again. If your goal is to paint over it, lightly hand-sand the previous stain/paint to remove the shine, buy a can of Kilz, and go to town, 'ja brotha!
3. The previous "stain" bled through again and again. We got to about the 5th coat of white paint and gave up. It isn't sparkling white; our dresser has bands of a dull cream color that has bled through. We chock it up to "artistic disorder" because we didn't want to apply (yet another) coat of paint! Lesson learned!
The only thing left to do (once we acquire a drill) is attach our new hand-made handles.
The handles are from deadwood and we created little spacers for the handles (not shown). It would be challenging to attach everything together unless we pre-drill. And, so, we wait!
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