Happy Day! Hope you guys are all having fun and enjoying the season. I have been taking it easy with furniture projects, just enjoying little crafty holiday projects, and doing things with my kids. But, I did make sure to finish a piece to show you today! I bought this dresser off craigslist and broke my $40 limit because it was worth it… and I was only breaking it by $10.
When I bought it the seller told me her grandfather had made it. It is so solid and well made- the drawer bottoms are tongue in groove, and this quality will make them last forever. It is solid burled oak, and really heavy and also has a beveled mirror. Some of you at this point are freaking out, and thinking I painted it…. Let me calm those nerves. I did NOT paint it. I stripped the finish, and restained it darker. It was missing a pull though and I couldn’t find a replacement. There was a mark on each drawer in a rectangular shape where each pull had once been. Here it is stained darker (I used 3 coats of ebony), and you can see the marks I am referring to.
So my only option was to find something that would cover up that mark. I found some black pulls at hobby lobby that almost covered the mark perfectly!
I painted them with a metallic paint, some antiquing gel, and then some brown craft paint to make them coordinate better with the other pulls that I was keeping on the large drawers.
Here is the finished product… not much different, but it was such a beautiful piece and I just wanted to keep it as true to its time as I could, while bringing it up to date with a darker finish. The finish doesn’t show much darker in these pictures from the outdoor light, but you can see that the darker stain has brought out the beautiful wood grain even more. It belongs in a bungalow, I think!
