Do you have a dresser that is in need of a makeover? This post is packed full of dresser makeover ideas to give you tons of inspiration.
Transforming furniture is an art form, a creative venture that transforms tired, old pieces into stylish, statement-making wonders. At the heart of every successful furniture flip is the choice of the right paint color. Whether you are a seasoned flipper or just starting, understanding the power of paint can make or break your project. In
Have you ever wanted to buy new bedroom furniture, but just didn’t have the budget?! I figured out how to paint your dresser without sanding to save money!
Easy creative dresser furniture flips. Thrift store dresser painted upcycled furniture. How to make over an old dresser. Upcycled dresser ideas DIY. #dresserupdate #dresserupcycle #furnituremakeoverdiyideas
My Anthropologie Enchantment Dresser Dupe! I love how this turned out! Last picture was what it looked like before. Products Used: Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint in Sand Bar General Finishes Poly i…
These colorful painted furniture ideas are amazing transformations that put a modern and beautiful story to old furniture. From subtle hues to bold blue painted furniture, there are projects here to refresh your entire home. Creative DIY ideas, great tutorials, and before and afters, for unique makeovers we can't get enough of!
An attractive dresser can do wonders in taking a space from good to great. But there’s no need to spend tons of cash to score the piece of your dreams when a little DIY can transform both pieces you already own and secondhand steals. Whether you opt to paint, collage, or stencil, there are a multitude of ways you can customize and revive even the most dated piece. (And if you think dressers only belong in the bedroom, we’ve got news for you.
This teal chalk paint furniture project features teal painted furniture with a gorgeous teal dresser as the star.
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All-in-one paint is the perfect way for beginners to get started with furniture painting. And Beyond Paint is one of my favorites. Check out this one day makeover!
In this post I'm sharing how to stain wood on a dated dresser and transform it into something that looks a little more modern!
This list of the top 10 best paint colors for furniture is sure to get your pieces looking their best and selling fast. If you're looking to update your furniture and give your home a fresh, new look, painting your furniture can be a cost-effective and creative solution. But with so many paint colors to
Taking a thrifted dresser and giving it a new lease one life with some elbow grease, paint and stain. It's a thrifty dresser makeover!
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This very well made French provincial chest of drawers, has been refinished from top to bottom. A blended farmhouse blue chalk paint, dark lavender wax and a mixed floral transfer, bring out the beauty of this rare piece. The top is glazed with a driftwood color palette that tie the whole thing together. This is a really solid piece of furniture. Made by Huntley Quality Furniture. It is solid wood all the way through. The hardware is original. The paper lined drawers open and close smoothly. This beautiful piece would complement a boho styled home or a farmhouse decor and many more styles. While vintage pieces are not perfect, they should be appreciated for their unique imperfections. Delivery is included to the 48 states. Shipping is usually arranged within 2 weeks but can take up to 6 weeks. Life is too short to live with ugly furniture. Chest 34x19x47
The dresser is done! So many of you have been following this project from the beginning on my Instagram stories, and now the wait is over. For those of you who are just joining, it all started with this inspiration… I’ve been noticing this fluted/reeded furniture trend in high-end design for a while and I’m […]
* SOLD* this piece is no longer available Newly refinished large 9 drawer dresser! Could also function great as a sideboard for your living space. 7 drawers visible, 2 drawers as pictured inside middle cabinet. Whole piece has been redone. Painted in Card Catalog Green by Melange Paints. Sealed for protection with a satin polycrylic topcoat. Drawers are dovetail and all function well. Tracks and drawers have been waxed and freshly lined. Hardware is updated and new! See measurement details below. Width: 64 inches Height: 31 1/4 inches Depth: 20 inches Newly refinished large 9 drawer dresser! Could also function great as a sideboard for your living space. 7 drawers visible, 2 drawers as pictured inside middle cabinet. Whole piece has been redone. Painted in Card Catalog Green by Melange Paints. Sealed for protection with a satin polycrylic topcoat. Drawers are dovetail and all function well. Tracks and drawers have been waxed and freshly lined. Hardware is updated and new. Very heavy! See measurement details below. Width: 64 inches Height: 31 1/4 inches Depth: 20 inches *Please note that the decor items pictured are not included* Please keep in mind that when refinishing old antiques, minor dents, nicks, etc can be expected, however, I always repair as much as possible and assure everything functions properly to get the piece looking its best! The product is being sold as is and **returns** will not be accepted. I spend a lot of hours ensuring you will love this piece and am confident it will make a great addition to your home! Shipping Info: **Shipping is included in the price listed.** Will only ship within the United States. I use U-ship as the shipping/carrier for delivery. Please allow up to 10 weeks for delivery. In some instances, this can be much quicker. Please be aware you will need to ensure you are available for delivery. The shipping company will coordinate this with you. We are not responsible for any damages that may occur during shipping. I make sure prior to shipping that all of my pieces are in great condition, functioning properly, and are wrapped for protection. I can send photos or videos prior to shipping at buyers request.
Just like design trends evolve over time, so do individual design styles and aesthetics. And the beauty of buying basic, timeless furniture is that it can often be modified to become more mature, bold, colorful, minimal — you name it — just as your style does. When Lisa Kasprzok (@knots.and.pots.home) first bought her gray IKEA HEMNES dresser, she was “going through a gray and white farmhouse phase.” But over time, she realized that aesthetic just wasn’t for her.
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I feel like it's been quite some time since I've done a post on a project in our home! I am excited today to be back to blogging- while apps like Instagram and Facebook are fun-blogging has always been my first choice to share projects and such with you all. Also- this website is mine-
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This old dresser gets a creative upcycle with old bags and suitcases. Best creative Painted dresser makeover idea. #dresserupcycle #dressermakeover
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Pin3kFacebook4Share3 Antique pieces of furniture have the best bones in my opinion. They have pretty carvings, great details, dovetail joints, are built to last and they have THE BEST legs! Am I right? The legs are like no other. So when I find one of these beautiful pieces, I really enjoy bringing it back to life and giving it new purpose. This antique dresser was one of those pieces. Great bones, fabulous legs, and in tip top shape. It just needed a new look. We started by giving the piece a good sanding to remove any minor dings and scratches, smooth out any surface bumps and also give our paint a better surface to lie on. All deeper scratches and dings that couldn’t be removed by sanding were filled with Dixie Belle Mud. Once all repairs were made, the piece was given a thorough cleaning using White Lightening by Dixie Belle. Next, it got 2 coats of BOSS primer to prevent any bleed through and block any odors that can be common in these older pieces. As soon as all the prep work was complete, it was time for the fun part. Deciding what new look this beautiful piece should have. This dresser had some beautiful bead detail going down the side of it but the fronts were rather plain and flat. So I dressed those up by adding WoodUBend Mouldings. Have you heard of them yet? They’re appliques that once heated, can bend and mold to whatever you’re applying them to. For this piece, I didn’t need to bend them as I applied them to the drawer fronts of my dresser. But boy what a big difference it made to this piece. If you’d like to try these, you can find them here. https://dixiebellepaint.com/hidden/woodubend/ I’ve been dying to do a nice green piece since the last bench we built and painted. So… I went looking for my options. Dixie Belle has a great lineup of colors in their chalk line of paint. I hadn’t used Collard Greens before so thought I’d give it a try. I just needed something to blend it with… I thought about using a white but didn’t want to lose the depth of the Collard Greens so decided to go with another shade of green and picked Dried Sage. I blended the two colors together and used the darker of the two colors to frame the piece and lightened up the middle with the lighter color. When using chalk style paints, you’ll want to keep your paint wet while blending so the colors can kind of melt together. By doing this you create another color, a transition color, that is a combination of the main colors you’re using. It allows your colors to go from one to the other without so much of a stark contrast or line between them. It helps soften it. You can keep your paint wet by misting it with a water bottle. Misting bottles work best and Dixie Belle has a great one you can pick up here. https://dixiebellepaint.com/continuous-fine-mist-spray-bottle-8-oz/ She was beautiful with paint alone but I decided I wanted to do a little more for her by highlighting her details and adding a beautiful magnolia flower design from the new Dixie Belle Belles and Whistles line of transfers. I choose Magnolia Garden because the colors of the florals complimented my paint so well. Don’t you agree? After adding the transfer, I wanted to make the beaded detail and the WoodUBend Mouldings I added really pop. There’s no better way to do this than to apply a little Gemstone Mousse to really make them stand out. I chose the color Amber because it looked fab with my olive green paint colors scheme. Once all this was done, I sealed the piece to help protect it and keep that beautiful new look lasting for years to come. I sealed it using Best Dang Wax in clear. Nothing, and I mean nothing, feels better than the soft, buttery, smoothness of a buffed wax on furniture. If you’d like to watch a video of this process, I have a few posted on Youtube. You can check out the Amber Gemstone Mousse application here. https://youtu.be/5d7ybpABEck You can check out the painting process here. https://youtu.be/Z5479sDmd8U You can watch and learn how to apply the new Dixie Belle transfers here. https://youtu.be/ItGhepTSUG4 Thanks so much for visiting our Blog. If you have any questions, be sure and ask in the comments section. If you visit our YouTube channel, please be sure and subscribe. Xoxo Tyler Pin3kFacebook4Share3
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Right after we got married, Anthony and I shared a twin mattress on the floor in our first house because it was the only mattress we had (mine from college). That set-up lasted a few weeks until we bought a new mattress and a secondhand bedroom set from a local thrift store. We stripped the shiny varnish from the set of dressers and gave them a coat of satin poly to modernize them a little (key word: a little). You can see them in our first house tour. We also added some new hardware I found on clearance at Lowe's. (Was this the beginning of a lifetime of furniture makeovers? Looks like it.) We used that set for years and are still using the bed (though it looks a smidge different), but the dressers have hopped around the houses we've had. The tall dresser eventually got traded for another tall dresser (that matched a long dresser we bought from someone online) and the long dresser went from kid's room to kids' room and landed in the living room in this house where it held the TV. When I spotted a longer dresser on Facebook marketplace a couple of months ago, we decided to swipe up that one and swap it out with our old one in the living room. Did you follow all that? Basically, we still have this dresser we bought as newlyweds but now we have no place for it. It sat in the breakfast nook for a few weeks which drove us all crazy so, pushing all sentiment aside (which wasn't easy), we decided to sell it. But it sat and sat and sat with very little interest. *womp womp* I might've been asking too much considering it still looks like it hails from the 1980's but I was trying to recoup the money we spent on that "new" dresser. We knew something was going to have to change to get this thing out the door and we didn't really want it to be the price since it's in great shape and has great bones so... I know, I know. Is that even the same dresser? Y to the E to the S. Fantastic, right? I mean, I'm a little on the subjective side but you can't go from 1983 to 2020 much better than that. ;) Here's how we did it: First of all, I've been going through a phase (a long phase now) where I have a hard time justifying painting real wood. I walked through some consignment stores with a friend a couple of weeks ago and saw umpteen pieces of painted wood furniture and, while most of them were pretty, so many had gorgeous features and edges that I bet looked fantastic in their raw element. But maybe they were beat up and had a ton of botox a la furniture going on which made the only option paint...who knows. Down here in the South though, there are a ton of people buying used furniture, painting it, and selling it. It's a legit thing. Someday though, someone is going to make a killing buying used, painted furniture and stripping it down to the original wood. You heard it here first. ;) Second of all, let me backtrack and eat my words because obviously, I painted this dresser. Like I said above, it was in good shape so why would I paint it? It's all the shell's fault. That little shell shape carved into the top middle drawer, did you see it? There's no covering that up with stain and I felt like it was such a 1980 faux pas that it had to go. I filled it in with drywall compound* because that stuff has been sitting on our counter for days as we continue to mud this kitchen ceiling over here and so it was readily available and dries hard. Had we had wood filler* on hand, I would've used that so that's what I'd recommend for you if you ever find yourself wanting to fill in a shell like this one. Note: If you do ever use wood filler to fill in something in a piece of wood furniture, I'd recommend using a thin layer of spackle* at the very end. Wood filler doesn't sand smooth enough to me because it has fibers in it and so using spackle at the end will really give you a smooth, seamless finish. I'd fill with wood filler, let it dry, sand, cover with spackle, let it dry, lightly sand, and then give yourself a high five. You can get a visual in this post. The other thing that had to go to make this dresser 40 years younger was the curvy bottom edge. It's kind of like the curvy wood header over the kitchen sink in our rental...they both just screamed "outdated" but once they were gone it was like whoa, instant update. (PS, a big thank you to Lily Ardor, who inspired us to get rid of the curves with her awesome dresser makeover.) To get rid of that outdated edge, I measured up a few inches off the floor and sharpied on a line. The line showed Anthony where to cut. By cutting off a few inches and adding legs (which I'll get to in a minute), the dresser stayed close to the same, standard height. Using his circular saw*, he cut the sides and front. The back was open with a 1 x 2 piece of wood spanning the length. He removed that piece of wood and moved it up because we thought it probably needed to help support the back of the dresser and we needed a place to screw our new legs into. After we cut off the bottom, I painted the dresser. I didn't get any pictures of this process because it was a little chaotic but...first, I gave the whole frame a quick sanding, wiped it down, and gave it a coat of spray primer. I used spray primer because I wanted to go the oil-based route to block any stains and/or old stain from seeping through the paint. After that dried, I used our new-to-us paint sprayer* I picked up an an estate sale and that ended in a disaster. To be clear though, the dresser looked great after one coat but paint dripped everywhere because of some user-error (yep, that's me) with using the sprayer. It'll be better next time which I had hoped would be the second coat of paint, but the weather here didn't cooperate and I ended up just brushing a second coat of paint on with my trusty Wooster* and Handy paint cup*. (All of our favorite painting tools are here.) I also added some Floetrol to the paint to help it dry more slowly which in turn, minimized visible brush strokes. The top of the dresser got a coat of polycrylic* (also brushed on) for added durability. (However, timeline-wise, this was the very last thing I did to the dresser. I didn't want to finish the important top of the dresser before the next step, risking scratches.) The drawers got pretty much the same treatment except I taped off the sides, the hardware holes, and inside to keep the paint confined to the drawer fronts only. Next up, adding legs. Gimme a dresser with legs any day. We bought these furniture legs* and, even though they're a little bit more shiny and glam that I had thought they'd be, they're still so perfect for this project. They're also really heavy duty so I have no qualms about the sturdiness of the dresser. To put them on, we first flipped the dresser upside-down and did a dry fit before we screwed them in. Then I penciled in the screw holes before we pre-drilled holes to make sure the legs went on right where we wanted them. Pre-drilling holes before screwing on the legs was important so that the wood didn't crack as the screws went in. I don't know if it would have but we didn't really want to take any chances. Making over the dresser sounded fun, rebuilding the whole bottom? Not so much. We did the legs right after dinner one day and this was the scene in the living room: It answers the age-old question, "How do you get stuff done with kids around???" Uhhh, we just do it when they're around and hope it all goes smoothly? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ While we had it bottoms up, Anthony also screwed a piece of wood to the center of the bottom of the dresser, going from front to back and to that he added another piece of wood perpendicularly that acts as another support leg. We didn't know if this additional step was necessary, but since the dresser wasn't built with legs, the top is thick mdf with wood veneer, and the bottom panel is just a thinner piece of mdf under the drawers, we thought adding some extra support in the middle wouldn't hurt and it would keep the dresser from ever bowing in the middle. If we had solid wood on top and bottom, we probably wouldn't have needed the extra leg. Sorry for no visuals on this! I wasn't able to take pictures at the moment but you can see that extra support leg here: It's not visible unless you hit the floor and look under the dresser. A "new" dresser called for new hardware; hardware that complimented the new legs so I grabbed these handles* because they went with the simple look we were going for and fit into the existing holes. I thought about filling in the existing holes and going the single knob route but, filling in all those holes plus drilling more would have added a lot of time and we were already working on this in our spare spare (maybe add one more spare) time. So we worked with what we had. The dresser wasn't finished there though. It could've been but there's one more thing I had to do to push it just a little farther over the modernized edge. I lined the drawers and oh my goodness, they are my favorite part. I found a roll of this removable wallpaper at Dirt Cheap last year for $3 and haven't found a use for it yet...until now. I made myself a template (like I did adding liners to these drawers) and used a sock to smooth the wallpaper into each drawer, cutting off the excess on the sides with my xacto knife. (It was a process similar to lining this tray.) Lining dresser/cabinet drawers is such an easy way to up the ante design-wise. And lining all of these drawers probably took me about 20 minutes. I probably could have gotten two dressers lined with one roll of this wallpaper too so, even at full price, it's not a bad deal! As much as I hate that I had to paint this piece to modernize it, it is amazing how the paint brought out details like the pretty scalloped edge on top that seemed to hide in the dark under the top of the dresser before. As far as paint - I went with Cloud Cover by Ben Moore (color-matched to Valspar Simplicity) because we had it on hand. It's a warm white that's eventually going to get painted on our exterior. I debated dark charcoal, dark green, and dark blue and, while they would all have looked awesome, not buying more paint was a plus. No, I didn't use a special kind of paint (chalk, furniture, or other) for a few reasons (all of which probably deserve a whole post) but in a nutshell, this hutch that I painted many, many moons ago has Valspar all over it and even after several years, several kids, and three moves, it's held up phenomenally. That's enough proof to me that Valspar is all I need. While it looks like this dresser went from dark to light in a day with a few blog post pictures, this thing actually took us about a month to finish for lots of reasons including weather-related delays, kids getting sick one week, and LIFE. But gosh, I'm so glad we took the leap and changed it up because now it has a whole new life ahead of it. And I'm now convinced that each and every curved-bottom dresser needs to go through a little bit of surgery to acquire legs. Aren't you? ;) **Update for those wondering...I listed the dresser for sale online and within the hour it was sold, out the front door in 24 hours. It was bittersweet to see it go but I'm happy that someone else will love on it like we did. :) ** . . . *These links are affiliate links which means that, if you click over and/or make a purchase through the link, we may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. All of these links will lead you to things we actually paid for or that are similar to the item we paid for in case ours is thrifted/sold out/secondhand. This extra money helps us with the costs of running the blog. Thank you for your support and for fueling our love to share all things DIY!
Upcycled drawers with wallpaper tutorial and an IKEA Hemnes hack. An affordable way to transform a chest of drawers from drab to fab.
As many of you may already know, I love taking a piece of furniture and giving it an entirely different look and use. I feel this makes the piece unique and one-of-a-kind, as well as a statement