My Girly Dresser

I went to pick a dresser up the other day that I had seen on Craigslist, and you know how pictures just don't tell the whole story about the piece, right?  The lady took me out in the garage to show me the dresser, which was hard to see because of all the other "stuff" in the garage.  When I finally spotted the dresser I first noticed the little flowers that were around the "missing knobs".  The whole dresser was painted a really awful brown, but I kept going back to the little flowers, and thinking to myself how cute they would look on a little girls dresser.  Sorry I don't have a before picture of the drawers, but you get the idea.

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It wasn't until I had paid for the dresser and was loading it in the car that I realized that the top wasn't real wood.  The fake looking wood grain on it is like what you see on a lot of interior doors.  I was really bummed because I didn't think that I could sand it down, like what I was wanted to do.  So it sat around longer then a project usually does while I decided what to do with it.

I decided to go a head with making it into a girls dresser like I had envisioned it.  So I primed it with Valspar primer and then lightly sanded it.  Years ago I was given a handy tip, if you have a brown paper sack you can use that for your sand paper on the coats of paint that you just want knocked down a bit.

  So that's what I used, and it worked great.  I then went to Walmart and got a can of Krylon spray paint for the drawer fronts, and of course the paint was pink.

I sprayed, probably five times to get this color.  I think I had to do it so many times because of the finish on the fronts (not sure what it was), I'm thinking that it might have been some kind of plastic because the flowers were also a part of the drawer front.  My hubby helped me fix a broken slide on one of the drawers, which was a headache to fix.  I bought the  little white knobs over at the Restore, three for a dollar.  I really love that place and try to use them as often as I can, it saves me money and also the money they make goes to a great cause.

It turned out just like I wanted it to.  It was fun doing a project that was a girly, girl, one.  Now I can't wait to find something that inspires me to do it specifically for a boy.

This is after adding poka dot shelf liner in pastel pinks and a rag quilt I made for my grandkids.  And of course a favorite buddy of theirs.