Dresser Redo Part Uno & Party LInk

I picked up this old dresser for FREE!

 I had no idea what to do with it because I no longer have room in the house for my dresser addiction, but it was FREE, how could I pass that up?

It was in pretty rough shape, kept in an old barn just rotting away with peeling veneer.

This is only part one of the dresser redo.  Or is it part two based on the teaser from before?  

Whichever, the dresser isn't quite done.  It needs some details finished up on it tonight with photos tomorrow, so the final reveal will have to wait till Saturday.  Call me a tease if you must.

Besides this post is really to give you the link to join the 

Hot Fun in the Summertime Party. 

Five blogs, five Fridays in July.  Link to one be seen on all 5.

 (Scroll to the bottom to link up your project).

But back to the dresser..... the veneer was bubbling up and peeling off in places.  I would have probably painted right over that because I'm too lazy to peel, but as soon as it was loaded off my vehicle Brawn started picking away at the veneer.  

He picked at the top and the drawer fronts and at that point I decided it was going to be a joint effort because he was making a mess.

There were a million other things Brawn should of been working on but he had an idea. 

An idea to replace a previous idea I had for something else I picked up.  He didn't have a vision, just an idea. 

And I didn't have a vision for his idea.  Yet.

One thing I knew, I didn't want to paint over the back of the dresser.  It had the name of the furniture company stamped on it.  So we taped it up to preserve it.

As I sat and watched Brawn pick away at the veneer I started to see the diamond in the stuff. 

I directed him with the power tools, after all he is the Brawn of the operation and I'm the brains right? 

For my vision the top needed to have a place for a container. 

Saw into it honey..... zzzziiinnggggg.

I decided it needed one less drawer. 

Can you cut some wood and turn the top space into a shelf?  

Anything for you beautiful.  (Yeah he calls me that, I think his eyesight is going).

I had to make a trip to the store.  I was trying to match the color of some boards on the patio.

That's the color we picked????  WTH???  That is NOT the color I was trying to match.

Boy did we get that wrong!
 

But we gotta use it anyway, too cheap to buy another. 

The artist formally known as Prince who hails from our land would no doubt be happy with the purple/pink color, however I was not.

The fastest way to get the dresser painted was to spray that bad boy with purple rain. 

And when we need something we can't find or don't have, we improvise.
 

No funnel?  Make one.

Coke bottle funnel.

It really wasn't planned that Brawns shirt was going to match the paint, but convenient nonetheless.

 That taped up spot on the back is some original lettering that was on the dresser.  I didn't want to cover it.

The purple rain dries a little less purple/pink, but I'm sorry that color is just NOT going to work.

Old wood that we used on our wood scrap art wall here, is put to good use again on the back and in the drawer.  

Looks like it's gonna be a giant bird house huh?

This stainless steel planter thing belongs in a black wrought iron holder that hasn't had any plants in it for a while, so it is getting repurposed for use with this dresser. 

Looks like now I need a new use for the black holder too.

 

Remember these crackle globes from one of my garage sale finds?

Three of them have become part of the dresser redo as well.

They are the coolest candle holders EVER!

And because it was hot in the garage that sweet man lugged the dresser inside to the entry way so I wouldn't have to sweat. 

I made a bit of a mess getting that purple/pink color to disappear, but it was worth it - I now love the color.

Purple pink no more - it now matches what we were trying to match.  

 

Stay tuned for Dresser Redo Part Dos, and while you are here...... link up for the Hot Fun in the Summertime party.  It opens at 8 pm tonight.

** See the finished dresser, part two {here}

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