A Dresser Redo

Justice had  a hand-me-down dresser in her room. I think I mentioned (too many times to count) that we have a tiny budget. So replacing it was out. That means paint and lots of it. We started with this:

Before

Then we lightly sanded it to rough up the surface enough to hold the primer and paint. After sanding we gave it two good coats of primer, Kilz oil-based. We allowed the primer to dry for several days before painting.

Sanded and ready to paint
 

Already looking better with primer

On painting day, we filled up the paint sprayer with Olympic paint in Aqua Bay. I highly recommend the paint sprayer for a no streak finish. It's well worth the investment if you do a lot of painting. Paint goes much further with it too. I love this thing so much that it's difficult to get it out of my hands once the painting begins. It covers so nicely and so quickly.

Pop Pop gets a minute with the paint sprayer

The dresser was missing one knob. It consisted of four pull handles and originally eight knobs. It was decided that it would look more updated to change them out completely. We happened to have a set of oil rubbed bronze knobs in the workshop. Before we painted, the holes for the original hardware were filled in with pieces of dowel and wood filler. New holes were drilled in the center of each drawer. Fresh new updated look.

Gorgeous new dresser!

Money spent:

 $6.00 for the primer
The paint was purchased on a previous project.