Discontinued IKEA Can't Kill My Vibe
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Why you should never give up on your dreams of a matching bedroom set.
Silly IKEA. You go and make a good quality, posh looking set then discontinue the color (ok, I admit this is off Craigslist and I wouldn't have bought furniture new anyway). BUT when I went to match this dude, nooobody had it. You get IKEA grey-brown, you keep it 4 LYFE. Which leaves me with a lone chest, too many clothes, and no drawers...
Silly IKEA. You go and make a good quality, posh looking set then discontinue the color (ok, I admit this is off Craigslist and I wouldn't have bought furniture new anyway). BUT when I went to match this dude, nooobody had it. You get IKEA grey-brown, you keep it 4 LYFE. Which leaves me with a lone chest, too many clothes, and no drawers...
This is the dresser I wanted to match with basic Hemnes knobs. I thought I loved them--- I thought wrong.
This is the small, yellow-tan dresser I THOUGHT was a large, grey dresser from the Craigslist pic. Not. But I cozied up to my kid sized dresser. I had Googled "IKEA grey brown" to find many disappointed discontinuees like myself. Instead of furniture, Google recommended mimicking the color using a "Weathered Grey" stain. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
You can tell it's painted here, but hey, its a grey thing that also gets my fiancé's basketball shorts off the floor. Last step was to apply knobs- I never did find Hemnes BUT I decided to go with the accent metal of the bedroom, silver. (Also might be that they were the cheapest knobs at Lowe's, shhh.)
The cool thing: because I updated with flashier knobs, it detracts from the difference of the dressers. Add a dark room ambience, and nobody's the wiser!
Bonus: by some magical miracle of moving sales on Craigslist, I also found nightstands to match, actual IKEA grey-brown. You guys won't even believe how long and stubbornly I waited for matching nightstands on CL. I'm a nutcase.
Oh, right, so ummm, I can explain... shortly after all that work, my friend and I saw this real wood brown/white beach-style dresser at a thrift shop. With a little (lotta) help from my friends, we gave it the same sand-stain treatment. Because adults should have adult-sized dressers. And I have my share of small chest already, thank you.
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Wow! Your hard work paid off! Thank you for sharing!
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I love that you didn't give up!! It came out really fabulous!
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