Before + After: Dresser Makeover

For obvious reasons, I ought to be hesitant about posting pictures of something as personal as a bedroom.  However, I'm so.incredibly.stoked about a dresser makeover I just finished and since it just so happens to live in our bedroom...

The only art in the room are framed prints of old school postcards I put together as a birthday display of "GreetingsFrom...Places You've Lived" Jamie one year.  They are 13"x18" prints of postcards from Tucson, SF, and Los Angeles.  Hope we get to add more postcards in the future together!

Let's get back to that dresser, shall we?

Ahhh...close-up.

That simple wooden dresser is my first piece of furniture I was able to purchase with my first paycheck after college.  I distinctly remember that purchase + the shopping trip itself as monumental as I was transitioning between stacked plastic crates to a REAL piece of storage. It signified a growing-up, a breaking free of the necessary state of mobility that I maintained during school.  As is the case for many, I moved every 3-9 months without a vehicle to call my own, so it was necessary to maintain all worldly possessions in a few suitcases and disposable furniture.  Obviously, a stark contrast to the crazy amount of crap I have accumulated since...sheesh.

Back then, I lovingly sanded each bit and whitewashed the whole thing to tone down the yellow of the originally unfinished pine.  It didn't come with knobs so I picked up a couple packs of simple ones from Ikea and had been relatively happy with its simplicity.

Until a week ago.

I stared at it long and hard one morning, realized the blank canvas potential, and immediately started prepping the drawers for some paint action.

*Insert picture of dresser with blue tape and its first coat of Valspar Paint *

It took a couple of nights to complete (why do I choose to paint at night?) and a couple of pixtext consultations with Jen on how to handle the smaller drawers on top, plus about a week to allow the clear coats time to "season".  All in all, totally worth it.  Here are some more shots of the clean, Hollywood Regency inspired dresser.

The dresser redux has even proven satisfactory to v.apprehensive guy I live with!  You know, the one who believes the potential to get super-girlie with furniture painting is just too risky to attempt?  Yup, him.  He thinks it's just great now.  Phew.

What do you think?