One man's trash is a smart women's treasure

A friend of ours recently down sized his furniture and had this beauty sitting outside on his front porch waiting to go to the dump....can you believe he was going to throw this out!! Sure it's old, dated, and slightly broken but it's just calling out for some needed love. So I promptly said hi to friend and stole his dresser before the garbage man got his hands on it:)

For this project you will need:

old beat up dresser

Sandpaper

White spray paint (Beauti-tone semi-gloass white)

Minwac English chestnut stain

polyurethane

Shop towels

wood glue (if drawer broken)

paint and stain stripper
trim
nail gun

I started by stripping the top. This took several coats of stripper. I then sanded it with 60 grit sand paper then 100 grit paper. I applied 3 coats of stain followed by 3 coats of polyurethane.

Before you do below steps cut trim to cover the bottom lip, scallops were in before but not now!

Then spray painted the whole body with white spray paint. Allow to dry thoroughly. Then apply stain to the whole thing, work in sections like front, side, and back. After you apply stain to section promptly wipe off with shop towel. Stain will darken the paint and pick up the more distressed areas. Do the same to the drawers. My drawers had a great inset in it that I left the stain in. You could wipe it out if you want to but I think it adds to it. I applied 2 coats of the stain to the body. I then got some new handles and painted them black.

And your done, easy I swear!

Master bedroom remodel...is almost done:)

When we first laid eyes on our house I thought it was perfect, not a thing to change! Well when you move to middle of no where with no friends or family except for your husband (who works alot) and dog you get bored easily. So I decided to take on some remodeling. This bedroom has been nothing but a frustrating experience as I could not figure out what to do. So here we are after 3 different paint colours:) I finally found one that I love and creates that warm cozy feeling I was looking for.

The room still needs crown molding and to have the trim finished. I also ordered a great vinyl saying to go above the bed but it hasn't arrived yet. Room should be done done by next week:)

Here is the almost finished room:

OMG can't believe I ever thought this colour was a good idea!! Dan should have slapped me before I decided to paint all four walls this colour. Three of them were promptly painted back to cream!

More after: 

The door to the left is 2 inches taller then the other doors...makes no sense I know, thanks to the crazy carpenter who according to my dad installed the door frame upside down because the door is also 2 inches off the floor???? The reason is why there is only trim at the top, I had the store cut the 14ft pieces down but they were too short for this door:( Ah I'll fix it next week:)

Headboard:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/search/label/headboard

This mirror was a tile mosaic mirror that we got as a wedding gift. The tiles were green to match that ugly colour I mentioned above so this had to remedied quickly. I applied the same finish to this that I did to lamp.

A few years ago I painted these nightstands black.....poor lack of judgement I know. Well I stripped them back down but left bits of the black left to add to the aged look. I stained them using the same stain as the dresser. The thing that bugged me about these night stands is they had no feet which made them too short for our king size bed. After shopping around and see that the legs were going to cost me $80 for the 8 I needed I got creative. I used some left over trim that we had in the garage and created my own legs - cost free!!! I think they turned out fantastic!

Revitalized dresser:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-mans-trash-is-smart-womens-treasure.html

New lamp:

Instructions for this project can be found at: http://ournorthernhome.blogspot.com/2010/11/from-old-to-new-then-back-to-old.html I thought my mom was going to kill me when she saw these pics but she said I'm still in the will and she'll forgive me:)