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White Washed Dresser Re-do
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Vintage Storehouse & Co.
(IC: blogger)
I’m so excited to be sharing furniture make-overs with you again! It’s been a while. I recently refinished a dresser set with a beautiful minty color called Larchmere by Sherwin Williams. I love combining this color with a white washed effect because it’s vibrant enough that the white washing doesn’t wash out the entire color.
Now for those of you who freak out whenever they see painted furniture - let me just say that this dresser would have without a doubt ended up at the dump. The veneer was a mess, it smelled, most of the drawers were missing bottoms, backs or railings or all three.
I originally considered throwing the top away. It was in terrible condition - and I don't know many people who use hutches like this in their decor, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. As I said before - I have a hard time seeing furniture go to the dump. I ended up replacing the mirror in the back with cork board covered in linen fabric. Partially because I envisioned this dresser ending up in a young girls room, and I thought having a cork board to put photos of friends, crushes etc on instead of a boring old mirror would be a plus!
This is what the dresser looked like. I had already sanded down the top, filled in the gaps and removed the hardware, but you can see how gross the old finish was and how dated it looked.
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Published October 24th, 2014 6:00 PM
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Anne Marie Morris on Jan 04, 2015Such a beautiful color for this piece...absolutely luv the contrasting hardware.
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