Deb's Blog: Our River House Fixer Upper

I used my day off yesterday to re-do a piece of furniture. We got this dresser last spring when we needed something for the captain's clothes. Wasn't very attractive, but solid wood and reasonably priced. Now the captain has a really nice dresser (got about a week ago and it is NICE!!), so we had to do something with this one.

See...not very attractive, but functional. At first, we thought about placing it upstairs, but then I thought why not keep it downstairs in the hallway and use it for storing linens. We talked it over and decided if I could transform it then we would use the dresser downstairs.

So I spent yesterday making it look a little better.

I started by sanding the entire piece. Have I mentioned before that I hate sanding?

After wiping off all of the dust, I covered it with two coats of Kilz primer.

It was such a pretty day, it did not take long to dry between coats. While drying, I went to Lowes in search of a pretty color to go on the dresser. I opted for Onion Peel. Food colors speak to me 😉 I painted another two coats of satin latex in my picked color. Only bought a quart and I have over half of can left to use for something else.

While waiting for that to dry, I enjoyed watching an eagle flying around overhead. Tried to capture him in a good pic, but he was not cooperating with me. This was the best I could get of him flying really close in our backyard.

We had these pretty glass drawer pulls that were included as a extra set with the captain's really nice dresser. Decided they would work nicely on this dresser.

Only had eight of these, and I needed ten. So while at Lowe's, I picked up two different glass drawer pulls out of the mark down bin, for $2 each.

Added the drawer pulls and then went to work on distressing the dresser. I have never done this before and did not want it too distressed, just a little bit.