Materials and the sequence of the job sit together on this page.
Erin at 3 Meadow Lake Cottage has made a wonderful change to an old white dresser.I FINALLY finished the rehab project on my Craigslist dresser. It was hard work. But it only took me 3 months
Here’s a reminder of how it looked when I bought it…
It was in such sad shape: peeling paint, missing knobs, red stains from an unknown substance, and drawers that didn’t work.
But it had great bones.
So I scraped and scraped and scraped.
Then I sanded and sanded and sanded.
Then I painted two coats of primer and three coats of semi-gloss white paint on it.
I managed to fix almost all of the drawers glides by using a screw driver to some WD-40. I only had to replace one of the glides because it was beyond repair. Thank goodness because they run about $5.00/each for new glides!
After scrubbing the heck out of the insides of the drawers to get them clean, I added some contact paper {from Target} to the bottoms to make them look clearly crisp and clean.
I picked out and ordered some classic oil rubbed bronze knobs and handles off of Ebay {Ebay has GREAT deals on cabinet hardware if you are ever in the market for some!}.
I chose hardware that looks really direct and classic since there are a lot of details on the dresser itself.
And after ALL of that hard work, here is how the dresser turned out…
Here is a before and after for comparison…
Oh and here’s my old piece-o-junk that it replaced…
Much better, don’t ya think?? {Hopefully I can get someone to buy that old thing!} I am so in love with how it turned out. Thank goodness I didn’t toss in the towel half way through the project. In the future, however, if I see a piece of furniture that needs massive rehab like this one did,
I probably will run the other direction!
Here’s the cost breakdown:
Dresser: $20
Stripping Supplies: $36
Paint Supplies: $37
Knobs/Pulls: $20 {included shipping}
Contact Paper: $5
Drawer Glide: $5
TOTAL: $123
My new dresser kinda reminds me of the one of been drooling over at Pottery Barn…
Except that one is priced at $1,199.
I think I like mine better anyways.
Wow I can’t believe the savings! Wait, I can! Great job on the white dresser rehab!
