Dresser Redo

A friend was moving and getting rid of this dresser. They had looked for a matching handle for the missing one and couldn't find it. With the hectic parts of moving, the time it would take to redo the scratches on the top seemed not worth it. So they generously dropped it off for me.

It was nice to have a reason to get new hardware. I was excited when I saw these guys on clearance:

 

They seemed like a fun "industrial" piece. And they came in the mail quickly. It cost $37 for the hardware, which was my only expense, since I used paint and primer that I already had at home.

I used a bonding primer so that I didn't have to bother sanding.
Then I mixed metalic craft paint on three paper plates. With one I added in black craft paint, with the other I added in white craft paint, and with the other I added in gray craft paint. Craft paint is cheap. About $1.50 per color. And the metalic one I bought in a slightly larger jar at $5 but I've painted many things with it and it's lasted me a long time.  I put a poly glaze to seal it, and used some black craft paint to kind of make the groove "pop" with a touch of darkness.

I did this project in little bites. Sometimes with a kiddo on my lap. 15 minutes to slop on a coat here and there over a few days.

And this is the result