Lingerie chest makeover

Lingerie dresser, painted lingerie dresser, small dresser, panty dresser, bra dresser

This is a tiny little dresser – about 18″ wide and only about 12″ deep.  I guess it would be called a lingerie dresser or lingerie chest? A “disaster dresser” to begin with. Look at the destroyed top! Missing knobs, chipped drawers – and what you can’t see inside, is that the drawer bottoms are […]

Repurposed Dresser: Dresser, Toybox and Bookshelf in One!

Dresser makeover, Repurposed dresser, kid's dresser, dresser with bookshelf, dresser with toybox, dresser bookshelf toybox in one

*This is a post I wrote in June 2013 – one of my earlier blog posts.  When I moved my site from Blogger to WordPress a lot of my Pinterest links broke, so I’m attempting to update older posts with a few new photos and create new links on Pinterest.  If you were with me […]

Dresser fit for a Tween!

Dresser makeover - from boring black to quad-coloured teen dream! Painted dresser.

Okay, the owner is actually a teenager, but “tween” went so much better with the saying don’t you think? I can’t take credit for today’s before and after dresser makeover – all I did was give an eager teenager a few tips and she did all of the work. Let’s start with the before: The […]

Janice’s Sideboard

Take an old sideboard and mix it with some Irish fun and a great pair of knobs and you get this fantastic buffet makeover! Painted furniture, furniture makeover, mint furniture

Do you have stereotypes for different countries? The people of the country I mean. I am embarrassed to admit that I do. Nothing negative, more along the lines of Australians are beach babes and partyers and Irish are fun and love a pint. My stereotypes are based solely on what I’ve seen on Pinterest or […]

Partial Refinish

Partial refinish - when all you need is to clean up the top

Not every piece of furniture you come across needs to be stripped down to the bare bones, or maybe I should say not ALL of it needs to be stripped down. How many of you have a dresser that is in perfect condition except for the top? It’s the surface that takes the most abuse. […]