Saturday, April 03, 2010

Before and After...

Before...

This was my dresser growing up. It got lots of TLC, needless to say. In fact, it was my dad's when he was a little boy. When my parents moved out here 4 years ago, I reinherited it. I have always wanted to do "something" with it, just not sure what. I knew I couldn't give it away, but the cost to have it "redone" was outrageous, until recently. My sister in law found a young mom in Draper that refinishes furniture for a fairly decent price. (She just refinished my Grandma Russell's [dad's mom] cedar chest. It looks fibbity FAB-btw!) So I just had to have her look at this and work some magic. I think she did. Take a look...

After

Sage green under with a white glaze paint on top...


Surrey will inherit this dresser when she has a more "grown up" little girls room. I have ideas for bedding, but need to start looking for some fun knobs to finish this dresser off.
I love it. I love it. I love it.

5 comments:

Tricia said...

Very cool! I would love to have an excuse to go to Anthropologie and buy some of their cute knobs. Let me know how it turns out!

Spar-Mar Girl said...

I'm so glad you had her refinish it! It looks DARLING!!! Now I can't wait to see the trunk too-when are those pictures coming????

Jessica Simonsen Howard said...

So cute and a really good job

Corrine said...

that turned out awesome!!!

Andrea Almond said...

It looks awesome. I just saw some darling knobs, looks like we'll have to go shopping