Monday, June 8, 2009

New and Improved

When we got married, we were really lucky because we didn't have to buy ANY furniture. Tony had a bunch of furniture given to him by his grandparents. We bought our TV stand a few months ago and that has been the extent of furniture we've purchased. It really has been a great blessing.
We've had this dresser in our spare bedroom (about to be the baby's room), holding random towels and sheets.
(Do you like the many colors:))
I thought it would be a good idea to spend a little bit of money to re-do its look. It would be a lot cheaper to do that than to buy a matching dresser for the crib we want. So we bought paint stripper, cheap brushes and scrapers and got to work.
Under this black paint we found two different layers of paint! It took a bit of work to get it all off.

We finished the last touch ups yesterday! I am so happy with how it turned out!

We have a white crib picked out so I think this "new" dresser will look great with it!
We had a blast working on this together!

7 comments:

Cate said...

you guys are so crafty! i love it :) and it looks great!

Kristy said...

Way cute Megan!!! I love the color.

patsy said...

how great!!
it turned out so good- it's going to be perfect for the little guy :)

Karrie said...

So cute...I love the color too...perfect for the little man.

Lisa said...

Megs that dresser is so stinkin cute! Good work!! Congratulations too by the way on finding out you guys are having a baby boy! How fun!! :) I am excited for you two! :)

she'sonlyhappyinthesun said...

That dresser is so cute...

The Fox Family said...

Look how crafty you are!!! I LOVE redoing old furniture pieces. I just always forget to take a before picture! (good job!) I love it and the frames in the post below!!