painted furniture – HOME ON THE CORNER

So…do you remember a few weeks ago that I posted about a dresser that I was going to be posting soon? Yeah…life got in the way and it didn’t exactly happen soon.

But I finally got it finished!

If you haven’t read the before post, please click here.

Before and After

I love the new look on this dresser. Before it was a weird eggshell whitish yellow, a drawer was broken, and there was peeling paint all over. Now, it looks like it could fit anywhere in someone’s house.

But it wasn’t all easy.

The first problem I ran into was the broken drawer. With the help of my dad, we were able to get that fixed. He also helped me fix the bottoms of the drawers so they wouldn’t fall apart.

When I was painting the dresser, I also ran into the problem that the paint didn’t cover the peeling paint on the top of the dresser. When I was using the spray paint, it was two different tones because the wood would just soak up the paint. So, I had to use a can of black paint instead of spray paint. Thankfully, that worked and made the top of the dresser look nice.

My final problem came when I tried to put the new knobs on. The space between the screws was wider than the original knobs, so I had to remeasure to make new holes. After filling in the original holes and drilling in new holes, I was finally able to put the new knobs on. Yeah!

The Drawers

The featured part of this dresser is the drawers. They are all chalkboard, so you can write what you have in each drawer (examples: socks, pants, checkbook, undisclosed amounts of money…too much?), or write numbers like I did. Numbers are really in right now, so that is why I picked them.

Another feature this that every pull for the drawers is different. I bought all five of them at Junk Days and they all worked perfectly. It’s a great way to make the drawers unique.

I love how this dresser turned out. It has a very modern feel and is something that I can see myself putting in my house when I have my own one day. Now, if only I can figure out what to do with it in the meantime.:)

I was looking for something different to do for this Memorial Weekend, but it seemed like I was just going to do some mundane chores around the house. My husband was going to be working at the softball park, Lauren wasn’t coming home and Haley just wanted to watch her videos. Boring!!! Then as my husband was watching a local baseball game on tv, there was an advertisement for ‘Junk Days’ in a nearby town. Bingo! Something fun and different to do! Lauren was game, Haley was undecided, and I texted one of my friends from work to see if she wanted to go. She hasn’t been able to drive for awhile, so she is pretty much stuck at home. She was more than ready for a day out!

After church, we headed out. After a short stop at Starbucks, we picked up Lauren and drove over to the ‘Junk Days.’ This was one of Lauren’s first finds of the day. We didn’t purchase it, but it sure is fun to dream and get ideas!

Lovin’ the pink!

I have been wanting a rectangle shape table, preferably a trestle table, for my back patio. Just the other night I was thinking it would be cute to get some different wooden chairs, paint them the same color and put around the table. Well, I found the chairs! Aren’t they adorable! I scored five for $20!!

Wooden chairs for my patio.

I will change out the burlap, not because I don’t like burlap, but it would be a little itchy when wearing shorts!

There was also a booth advertising all the benefits of chalk paint. Look at the truck!! It is completely painted with chalk paint! It is so awesome!!

I want this!!!

We also stopped in the store that carried the chalk paint. They hold classes and sell everything you would need to paint. It was so cool! They had this map hanging in there. I love maps! They also had an upholstered chair painted with chalk paint. Amazing!

Chalk paint map

The last really cool thing we found, because the place was full of cool stuff, was this dresser. The drawers were painted to look like suitcases, complete with hardware!

This is so clever!

After our ‘junking’ we stopped for lunch and a little more retail therapy. We were browsing Kirklands and found these little initial blocks. They were on clearance and the only ones left just happened to have all of our initials! So random!!