After scouring Pinterest for ideas for Hannah Grace's nursery I saw several furniture refinishes with these old dressers that I really liked. I loved the detail and the curved lines. I knew I wanted to refinish something because it would be a lot less expensive than buying a new dresser and I wanted to add a colorful pop. I had been looking at garage sales and craiglist for months when I saw this dresser at Sean's moms house.
It even had a mirror with it, which I loved because that meant one less thing to find to decorate the walls. The cream color with gold accents was not my thing though. It was also pretty banged up and a little smelly. But, I knew it was exactly what I was looking for and just needing a little love... and it was free!
I set up in the garage. I took all the hardware off and gave it a quick sanding. Then, I painted a coat of primer on the whole piece. It's not made of solid wood so the primer will help the paint stick. I color-matched a piece of fabric I was using for Hannah's crib skirt to get the bluish teal color I was looking for. I wanted to cut the pink with some blue, but wanted it to be a muted, dustier color than a baby blue. The drawers were stinky and dirty so I primed them and painted them white. I found this cute drawer lining at Walmart and put that inside the drawers.
I loved the look of the faux glass knobs I found at Home Depot and decided to put two on each drawer. It turned out exactly as I was hoping and love the pop of blue it adds to her nursery.
The only problem was that it was a small dresser. I really wanted a little more space, but when this dresser was free I knew I had to take it. The Lord knew exactly what we needed because I realized the dresser in our guest bedroom was exactly the same style. We had picked it up off the side of the road right after we bought our house and had painted it brown. I was using it to store fabric but when I realized it went with Hannah's dresser we painted it blue as well and added the same knobs.
It really completes her nursery and we ended up really needing the extra space.
