Baby Girl Dresser Redo

What a winter it was.... I haven't been sick so many times in such a short amount of time in a very long time. (Say that 10 times really fast!)

Now that I feel half-way human again I have a mountain of things to catch up on. Time is ticking away and this baby will be here before we know it....there are just 4 weeks and 5 days left!

My sweet sister-in-law hosted a baby shower for Adeline at the beginning of March, and we were blessed with many of the things we needed for a baby girl. Clothes, mainly. As my Mom put it: "She won't go naked!" After the shower I laid everything out on the dining room table to take inventory of what we had and what we still may need. It was then that a different sort of problem presented itself: where in the world are we going to put all these clothes?

 

I remembered we had moved an old dresser out to the garage last summer, which was now buried by a new toilet, a kitchen cabinet, and a couple strollers. It had been left in the house when we bought this place and we were going to get rid of it. It was not pretty...it screamed 1970's. I decided with a makeover it would work well for baby girl clothes. I finally finished the dresser project today, and now just need to clear a space in Adeline's future room to put it.

I started by sanding the dresser's exterior to rough it up so that paint would stick to the high gloss surface. I'm not even sure how to describe the material it's made out of. It's a thin plastic-like board. The drawer fronts are particle board with a veneer of imitation wood plastic. High quality stuff right there. The drawer pulls are solid metal at least! I forgot to snap a photo before I took the drawers out, but you can get an idea of what it looked like. (I found a photo of the dresser from the first time we walked through the house last April for the Before & After photo.)

Then I spray painted the body of the dresser white and the drawers satin pink. (No worries, proper ventilation and masks were used in the painting process.)

Once the drawers were dry I rummaged through my fabric totes and found some old lace. I laid it over the drawers and spray painted gold over the lace. When removed it left the lace pattern in pink with a gold background. The drawer pulls were already gold so I polished them up with some Soft Scrub and put them back on the drawers.

I always second-guess myself, and wondered if it would have looked better with a pink body instead of white...but will leave it as is. I don't want to overwhelm it with pink, in a Pepto Bismal sort of way....