Beat up Dresser

Leesa Osborne
by Leesa Osborne
9 Materials
$50
4 Months
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This project was definitely a long one and a learning curve. I had this vision,oh it’s gonna be a breeze, removing two drawers, add some doors and paint it. Ha!! It was a nightmare. I gave up on it many times. I let it sit till I had a new idea then that failed and I’d just get frustrated all over again. I had never used metal and I knew I wanted a “farmhouse industrial look” oh goodness. If you’ve never cut galvanized corrugated metal. Your in for a job if you don’t know how. I didn’t know how everyone kept saying use metal snippers. I’d tell them I have it doesn’t work. We tried a electric metal blade saw thing. It just made metal fly and it was extremely loud. Don’t let this discourage you from trying the metal. I figured it out. You need straight cutting nippers. I had left cutting nippers and didn’t know the difference. So after researching you tube Pinterest google. I found them on amazon they cut straight no metal flying or getting embed in your skin. You need straight cutting. Photo below. Mind you my dresser had already been painted months ago. Since these was considered a handmade doors I had to go through several types of hinges. Everyone one I bought didn’t work except these. They are called partial inlay. Since my door isn’t flush I needed partial inlay. I had no idea all the different types of hinges their are. Mind you I had made 4 different sets of doors thinking it was my doors not being measured correctly. Like I said this was a learning experience.

I bought these off amazon after trying the metal grinder and “left cutting nippers” so much easier.

See how one side sits higher than the other. These were black when I bought them. I just used rust -oleum spray paint in silver. I wanted them silver like the metal door inserts. So after months of trial and error I got it done. Then I thought this is just “to white”. I decided to go over the entire piece with min wax special walnut stain and varathane gray stain. The gray stain dries way to fast for me. I’d wipe on the special walnut and let dry. Once dried i barely dipped my brush in the gray stain and kind of did a dry brush and wiped immediately. Of course some didn’t wipe off. So I had to google how to thin it out or remove some of it. Good olé mineral sports saved it.

Before photo

Yes it’s been through a lot by someone. Lol

I distressed it a little bit. Oh the pipe and flanges came from Home Depot. I used 1/2 inch pipe and 1/2 inch flanges and just screw them into the drawer fronts.

My shelf made of old fencing. I stained it sanded and dry brushed white chalk paint over them.

This is the final result.

Before photo, being to white photo and final result.

Love it

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  • Jjqq Jjqq on May 27, 2019

    Love the look - all your hard work has paid off in letting all of us know what it took to get this great project done! My question is - could you please give me the measurements of the pipes and flanges you used for the pulls? I want mine to look the same. Thank you

  • Kelly J. Tinney Kelly J. Tinney on May 27, 2019

    Did you not put any knobs on the top doors?

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