6 Drawer Chalk Painted Dresser

Here is how we took a freebie dresser and gave it a makeover with white chalk paint!

Did I e'er tell you that my amazing husband had to work 5 hours away from home for four years about the start of our marriage?

He used to drive nearly five hours, work for five or six days, so drive back home for his iv or five days off.

At the time we felt it was worth the sacrifice…I got to go along my job while he got to start his new career.

And we made it work.

He had this crappy little basement suite (okay, information technology wasn't that crappy, merely information technology wasn't that prissy either…)

And a few hand-me down pieces of sometime article of furniture.

His Mom'south bff gave him some dressers and an old bed frame to utilize while he was up there, and this particular dresser came along with those 'freebies'.

Who knew it could be made over with paint to be such a looker??

And not just once, but twice!

For the original dresser makeover, I accept to give complete credit to my husband. He sanded the top and refinished it and painted the whole piece. He did a great job on it. It looked and then much better than it had started out.

I don't have any pictures of the original Earlier… Only before we had painted, the hubs gave it a black and forest makeover, it started out more like this…merely perhaps a picayune darker and shinier:

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But it has been years now.

That portion of our life is, thankfully, backside us. Glad nosotros got information technology over with earlier the boys came along.

And it was time to motility on from our original re-incarnation of this bedroom dresser makeover also.

Fourth dimension for await #3 for this sometime gal.

I started by giving the whole piece a thorough wipe down. I don't want to talk about how dusty information technology got in the cracks… and black shows everything.

Because he had used oil pigment to refinish it originally, I primed information technology with some really adherent Zinsser primer.

Then used the most cute shade of Country Chic chalk based paint in an airy white: it is called Simplicity and the proper name totally does information technology justice.

Considering I was doing this project outdoors in the summer atmospheric condition it stale pretty quickly. Rather and so distress it with a wet cloth, as I often practise, I decided to try out my piddling palm sanded. I figured that would permit me to evidence through to some of the black underneath but it would besides accept it correct down to the original woods in spots. And it sure did. I had to be careful non to take off tooooo much with it – but I am happy with how chunky the distressing turned out for this furniture piece.

Then I waxed it with the clear natural wax. It gave it such a beautiful sheen and I love knowing that the surface on peak is more than protected from all those little scuffing dangers that lurk around our chamber…or across the hall, in their bedroom.

Once it sabbatum for a bit I buffed it all dry with a clean, lint-gratuitous fabric…

Done!

So much fresher and brighter in our chamber…

Perchance yous remember it from when I shared our Master Bedroom pigment refresh a couple of months ago??

I've been slowly working away at freshening upward our sleeping accommodation over the past few months…just a few more customized changes and it should be practiced. For the time being.