Little Black Dresser | Furniture Flip

Ally | flop.or.not
by Ally | flop.or.not
6 Materials
$80
2 Days
Medium

‘Beauty can be found,

Beauty in old

Beauty in new

Beauty can be found if your looking for it

Don’t disregard what the eye naturally perceives as worthless 🖤


This dresser, as soon as I saw it, I knew that it had to be black! A dark beauty! I’m not naturally drawn to dark pieces, but I couldn’t help my need to have this one dark.

Before


It wasn’t awful to begin with. But sometimes the beauty is overlooked, when your not looking! I watched this piece of Facebook go from being listed at 100$ for weeks and I got it for 35$, people had no interest in this at this point.

Sand!


It’s amazing what’s underneath.

Drawers before sanding


This took 60 grit scuffing with my orbital sander

Scuff


The places where I wasn’t going to stain, didn’t need to be taken down to bare wood, it would just be more work that wasn’t needed.

Taping


I wanted the illusion that this piece had A separate Base. So I taped of where I wanted it to begin.

Prime


I primed 3 coats because the cherry looking stain is Always bad for bleeding.

Priming done


I used zinsser shellac based primer

Country chic paint - Rocky Mountain


I did 3 coats

Added antique wax


After I added the wax I sanded with 220 grit than top coated

Hard ware


I’m obsessed with this hardware! I got on amazon for dirt cheap!

Done! Vision accomplished
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  • Peggy D. Peggy D. on Sep 25, 2020

    How are you using this piece, which room? Nice project.

  • Hb Hb on Sep 25, 2020

    Why is the link for knobs, for knobs that look nothing like the ones on the dresser ?

  • Lori Lori on Sep 29, 2020

    I'm not familiar with using wax on furniture. Is there one kind that's best? What do you mean by putting a top coat on after the wax dried? Is that a coat of paint?

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