Free Dresser- Free Makeover!

Anyone who knows me knows I love FREE things!  Who doesn’t right?  A good percentage of things throughout my house were free.  I am cheap lets face it.  I cringe if I have to buy something new and full price.  Don’t get me wrong…I love new things, but, at a discount.  A lot of the time something old can be made to look new and then you feel this huge since of accomplishment….Look what I did!  Such a better feeling than paying tons of money.  (which by the way I don’t have…)

So this is what I ended up with….for Free!!

So, most of my kids have been using these kinds of dressers for many many years.  (If you can even call it a dresser…)

Lovely right?  Um, No.

So, I am always on the hunt for free dressers.   I got this little cutie from the free section of craigslist a little while back.  (You and the free section should become good friends!)

Now this little guy looks pretty good in the pictures, but I did give him some TLC.  It is amazing what people will do in their own repair work.  Some of these drawers were hot glued back together!  I did a few nailing and wood gluing to make things better.

I also sanded it pretty good, because there was a lot of…I don’t know what…sticky stuff on it.

Then I went to get some paint, from my garage.

I wanted some type of blue, but I only had a small amount.  So I got some white paint and an old perler bead bucket and started mixing.  A little blue goes a long way!

Then I painted the dresser.  I wanted to try something different since it was going in my little 3 year old’s room, so I busted out some vinyl and cut letters to use as a stencil, and painted some numbers on each drawer.  I didn’t have the money to replace the knobs, so they just got painted too.  Then I distressed it on the edges and the numbers….. Voila!

A “new” dresser for free!

I am so happy with how it turned out and, yes…I get a little grin on my face when I walk into my little boy’s room!  Look what I did!

Gotta love that “I accomplished something” feeling!

Lots of Love,
Mindi

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