This has got to be one of my favorite projects and also the most difficult and time consuming one that I have ever done. I never thought I would be taking on the task of repainting a dresser, and all the time and effort it would take to do it. I'm so grateful that I was able to do it in the summer, when I had more free time than I do now! Before I found this dresser, I had a long, cheap one, that I've had for several years now. I decided I needed a new one, and was on the search for a couple of months. Thank goodness for Facebook yard sale sites, or else I wouldn't have found this beauty! In the picture below you only see one of the knobs, but I have all of them (which is pretty lucky). My mom was nice enough to help pitch in for buying it, and I believe we paid $70 total. And then I had to buy paint, sandpaper, knobs, wood filler, and some nail tacks. We believe she was made in the 50's or 60's since she is solid wood, and has dove tailed drawers ( this made me fall in love!!).
Stripping the paint off was definitely the longest, and hardest task for this project. I had to use a screwdriver, scraper, and also a sander to get the paint off. I probably spent around 3+ hours for two weeks, just scraping off the paint...yeah... I'll never do that again.
Finally!! I got all the white paint off and it was now time to sand and then paint! I chose to do a black semi glossy paint that I bought at Home Depot. Just for future reference, I would never do a glossy paint on a piece of furniture again, or paint a piece this large black. It's really pretty, but everything sticks to it, and you can see every speck of lint/dust.
Let the painting begin!
Done! All I need now is knobs and to put in into my room!
This is the awful dresser that I had before... thank goodness I got rid of this thing. It was definitely screaming "throw me away and never look back!". You can even see all the dust on top of it..and my earring holder from an earlier post on here! :)
And now! My room looks much more mature now, and I bought a bookcase to put beside it for all my movies and such. I bought glass knobs, that really match the dresser perfectly. In the picture below I hadn't quite finished the knobs for the top two drawers, but I stuck with the original dresser knobs in white for contrast.
Next time I do a project this big, I definitely will NOT be painting it black, and will never use semi-glossy paint again. :)
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