Dresser redo

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…

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.

How I got my dream dresser for under $100 (including how to remove smoke smell from an old dresser)

Today I’m going to show you how to paint a dresser in 7 steps. Even though this tutorial and video will be most helpful for beginners, I share a few furniture painting tips that advanced furniture painters will find useful too. A dresser makeover isn’t hard to do and it’s a lot cheaper than buying...Read More »

One day my cheap-dresser-drawer-bottom fell out. Again. All of its contents were lost in the back of the said dresser. As I tried to take the drawer out to search for the lost clothing, the whole piece of garbage fell apart! This instance began the search for sustainable bedroom furniture. We began in all of the big furniture stores looking at bedroom dressers and armoires. The ones we saw didn’t look much sturdier then the ones we already had and they were hundreds of dollars a piece. With…

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…

This dresser offers lots of storage, but the finish was bland and boring. The drawers were lined with contact paper which I removed...

How I gave a vintage dresser a modern makeover by stripping the finish off, and refinishing by using a combo of stains. Stain details included as well as sources.

Y’all I finally got my Christmas Present in January! LOL!!! I had wanted a new piece for our bedroom but couldn’t find what I wanted. A few weeks ago I found a…