Spring 2013 Pinterest Challenge

It’s that time again over on Young House Love for the very fun Pinterest Challenge. I love a good challenge and I’ve been pinning like crazy lady lately.

Since I’m redecorating the kid’s rooms I thought it would be fun to paint the dresser in the boy’s room. Here is what it looked like before I got my hands on it. A little background. I bought this dresser for $85 at a flee market 6 years ago. The brand says “ModernAge” in a cool retro font. The color is light green with an antiqued finish and it’s a vintage dresser but in great condition. It needed a few facade pieces on the front sealed up and the doors needed new screws, but other than that it was the perfect piece of furniture to refinish.

BEFORE:

Here are the inspiration photos I pinned on Pinterest for the colors I liked. Basically I was loving the gray finishes with gold hardware.

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Hand Painted Vintage Dressers traditional dressers chests and bedroom armoires

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So the budget conscience person that I am these days told me I should go ahead and scrounge up some gray paint that I already had and mix them all up to come up with a new shade of gray. So that’s exactly what I did. For the hardware, I bought a can of gold spray paint by Valspar from Lowes.

I followed my steps for painting furniture, except that I waited 1 full day between each coat to make sure it was really dry and durable (and aired out since it was going in a child’s room.)

Here is the AFTER!

I really love how it turned out and it’s hard to tell by these photos but it has a very glossy surface.

My favorite part has to be the gold hardware. It makes it look very fancy.

Just for fun I painted the inside doors “Weathered Glass” by Valspar. Originally I was going to paint the whole dresser this color, but decided against it. Wanted to stick with a neutral.