I’ve gotten a few questions here and there over the past several months about the dresser we re-did for the master bedroom at the new house! I wanted to put the answers to your questions in one place that can be referenced again, even though I hadn’t planned to do a blog post about it.
Re-doing furniture is actually SUPER fun! I did an end table and a mirror for the house too, but I’ll probably have to show y’all those later this summer after the postponed wedding since I’m not there right now. The original dresser, end table, and mirror came from the same Goodwill trip in Columbia, SC earlier last year.
When looking for pieces to re-do, I think it’s important to look for quality, well-constructed pieces that just need a little love!
Because I never planned to write this post, I never got a good “before” picture of the dresser with all of the drawers in, but you get the idea! My sweet dad was a huge help for this first part. He took off the old hardware, then used an electric sander to take off the old clear finish on the wood. I also hand-sanded the little nooks and crannies so there was a rougher surface for the new paint to grab onto.
The walls of the master bedroom are Sherwin Williams “Agreeable Gray” and we used “Mindful Gray” for the dresser. We got the paint in a satin finish + “infinity” which means it has primer built into it, which really helped!
I thought the dresser color was going to turn out being much darker than the walls, but it really just turned out a different shade of gray – ha! I still think it looks good, but I might have chosen a little bit of a darker color in hindsight for there to be more contrast with the walls.
After 2 coats of the gray paint, we added a coat of polycrylic satin finish on top. Totally transformed! Finally, I found this hardware on Amazon that comes in tons of different sizes and Rudd attached them for us. (We actually ended up using this same hardware on our kitchen cabinets – stay tuned for more pictures of that!)
*Edit* – I also lined the inside of drawers with this gray patterned drawer liner paper to give them a clean + fresh look! Such an inexpensive way to make it feel like new.
All in all, I think we probably spent $85ish total on this dresser. It definitely took some work, but I think it was worth it!
