Beautiful Dresser Makeover! [Making the most of FREE furniture!]

I don’t know virtually you, but when I come across the give-and-take “FREE” I’m very tempted. Very. When my married adult man saw these costless dressers online nosotros snagged them upwardly forthwith – non quite knowing where they would become yet. We had grand plans for a dresser makeover correct away, but pregnancy, sickness as well as moving delayed our projection agency also much! Luckily when nosotros moved to Green Acres, it turns out nosotros needed unopen to novel dressers for our Master Bedroom! So nosotros lastly finished the makeovers as well as I can’t hold off to present y'all the results!

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The BEST dressers for makeovers are made of wood. We were thus lucky finding these guys because they were genuinely inwards bang-up shape! Just unopen to scraped pigment as well as ugly legs. Exhibit A…

If y'all desire to do a dresser makeover, here’s everything nosotros used:

Materials: 

Fusion Mineral Paint – Coal Black

(the BEST pigment for furniture!)

6″ hairpin legs (4 per dresser)

Cricut Maker

Gold Adhesive Foil

12″ x 24″ Cricut Cutting Mat

Paint Stripper

Clear Matte Polycrylic

Tools: 

Sander

Kreg Pocket Jig & combat wood (only if needed)

Each dresser makeover used the same steps:

1. We used pigment stripper on the drawer fronts, as well as thus sanded downwardly whatever remaining paint.


2. When the drawer fronts were clean, nosotros used a clear varnish to protect them.


3. We swapped out the not-so-pretty directly legs for unopen to gorgeous pulverization coated hairpin legs! (<– bang-up beginning for hairpin legs online!)


4. Because our dressers didn’t accept a thick plenty base, nosotros added a patch of combat forest to the bottoms of our dressers, as well as used a Pocket Jig to attach the wood, thus that our novel hairpin legs had a practiced base.


5. Once everything was ready, nosotros used the best pigment for patch of furniture that I know of – Fusion Mineral Paint – as well as gave the dressers a fresh coat of dark paint.

Here’s how the dressers looked when nosotros were done these steps!

You could stop your makeover there, but I wanted to laissez passer on the dressers a to a greater extent than modern twist past times adding a fake metallic inlay to the front. I used my Cricut Maker cutting automobile as well as unopen to adhesive foil to create the look!

How to create a fake metallic inlay:

Start past times opening THIS CANVAS inwards the Cricut Design Space. Once it’s open, only click “make it” to impress the long adhesive foil lines.

Make certain to search for “adhesive foil” when selecting your material.

Once the foil is printed, it volition easily pare off inwards strips that y'all tin add together equally fake metallic to your dresser fronts.

Place the foil on at whatever angle y'all want. I used an x-acto knife to cutting the border smoothly, as well as a putty knife to help continue my lines directly at edges, as well as when my foil lines crossed. When cutting on transcend of the drawers, exactly brand certain non cutting deep, the foil volition patch easily amongst exactly a calorie-free cut.

Once the metallic inlay was done on the dressers, I was thrilled amongst the results! Here’s what the shorter patch looks similar afterward it’s dresser makeover:

And here’s how the tall dresser looks now…

BAH! I’m thus happy amongst the destination results! They hold off beautiful inwards our novel Master Bedroom!

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