Master Dressers

Last year we finally moved into our new master bedroom after a couple l-o-n-g years of renovation. 

We decided on doing something bold with the paint ~ purple ~ and so far we have not regretted this decision. 

However to get everything to match in the room, I needed to change our dark brown dressers to a crisp white.

So here’s the before photos:

I loved the shape, and details of these dressers when we first got them second hand, but the wood was knicked up and scraped in many places (especially the top of the ladies dresser)  So I knew that eventually they would need to be refinished.

• So first I sanded everything down...thankfully the scrapes were mostly fixed just with basic sanding, others I filled in and sanded smooth J

• Then I primed them white

• Painted them ~ with 3 coats of the same white used on the trim in the room.

I learned on this project that even though all that detail on the dresser drawers and the mirror is beautiful, all those tiny crevices took time and patience to coat in paint without completely filling them in. ~ sorry about the lamp pole in this picture... I needed more light for all the detailed work ~

• I also took all the handles and spray painted them a brushed pewter ~ sorry I didn’t take any pictures of that ~ but I must say that spray painting old hardware was really easy, and resulted in an amazing product once complete.

Then the final product ~ please note that this room was not complete at the time of these photo’s and things like the red sheet over the window, and no wall paper boarder a top of the striped wall was all temporary.  I still have to figure out what to do with the creamy coloured air-conditioner???

So tada

~Joyfully renovating a 99 year old home~

~melodiejoy~
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