My husband and I are expecting our 1st baby and we were lucky enough to inherit an old dresser from my husband's parents. They had this dresser sitting in their garage for 5+ years. We knew this dresser had potential for new life.
Before we even knew the gender we picked out a turquoise color to refinish the dresser with. We knew it was a neutral color we could use for either gender so we went forward with our first attempt at refinishing a piece of furniture.
My husband found a blog on Pinterest that had the color we were thinking so we based some of our refinishing project on how she refinished her dresser. The original inspiration can be found here.
We used the same color she used called Caribe by Behr. The major differences were that we didn't use the glaze to antique the dresser and we used a stain on the top to make it two toned.
We used a hand sander to get most of the existing varnish/stain off on the dresser. We didn't worry too much about getting all of it off on the sides, or drawers because we knew the paint would cover well enough that we didn't worry about getting it completely sanded down.
However, the top of the dresser we did make sure we had it completely sanded down because we were using a stain for the top and we weren't sure it would cover as well.
We used a paint and primer in one instead of priming first and then painting separately. We felt like it covered really well and we were really happy with it. We did two coats of paint and we were surprised what a small amount of paint we used. We bought a gallon of paint and we have a TON leftover. You DEFINITELY do not need a gallon. We had only used about an inch of that gallon.
The top we used a stain that had primer in it as well. We had never stained anything before so I don't know if that went exactly how we planned or how we were maybe supposed to do it but I do still like how it turned out. It just looks more like a painted brown top vs. a stained brown top. If I were to do it again I would probably research a little more on how to stain before I did it. I can't remember if we did two or three coats on the stain but I think we did too much.
To finish everything off my husband sprayed polyurethane to of seal the dresser as a protective coating on the dresser as well.
We bought new hardware for it and we are so pleased with how it turned out.
Here are a few pictures to see the process.
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