Little Black Dresser | Furniture Flip
‘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.
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.
It’s amazing what’s underneath.
This took 60 grit scuffing with my orbital sander
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.
I wanted the illusion that this piece had A separate Base. So I taped of where I wanted it to begin.
I primed 3 coats because the cherry looking stain is Always bad for bleeding.
I used zinsser shellac based primer
I did 3 coats
After I added the wax I sanded with 220 grit than top coated
I’m obsessed with this hardware! I got on amazon for dirt cheap!
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This is gorgeous!!!! And one of the best tutorials I've ever seen: pithy explanations with perfect photos along the way. Am especially impressed with the idea to make the base look separate, and how well that turned out. Damn, I love this! Thank you so much for sharing it.
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Thank you so much for you comment! I really appreciate it 🥰 glad you like it!!
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I did my dresser last summer. Left the top natural and the bottom ( has no legs) plain also. The draw pull knobs plain also. The rest in painted a little lighter the navy blue. Wish I could post it but at my age this stuff confuses me.
Yours came out great. Love your idea, thanks for sharing.
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How are you using this piece, which room? Nice project.
Why is the link for knobs, for knobs that look nothing like the ones on the dresser ?
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?