room redo: dresser

we found a free dresser in our trash pile across the street! i decided to make it fun for our room redo but painting a pattern on it. my inspiration for the dresser came from the magic brush inc. and a step in the journey (both found via pinterest). i think it turned out great, but taping the pattern was a bit more complicated than i had originally thought.

so here's how i kept the pattern straight...i marked 3 lines. one in the dead center and then two more in the center of each half. then make 3 inch (or however steep you would like the rise to be) marks down each line plus the edges which makes 2 additional lines. then tape using the marks as a guide to each corner. one tip: use special painting tape ( i know they make some especially for this purpose) because this plain old tape bled. luckily it was not much so i just cleaned up a few edges after i removed the tape.

the next photo is what we had (in place of a dresser). back when we put in our hardwood floors our old dresser had slightly fell apart while we were moving it out of our room. it was given to us free so i had no qualms about getting rid of it. we weren't wanting to spend money on a nicer dresser because nothing in our room matched anyways. our solution was this cube storage. i figured that it would be a good option in the future to hold toys and whatnot in a common space. it now lives in our dining area and is just waiting to be filled with stuff!

the final product... i painted the picture frames that were previously on the dresser to match our window frame. wood frames just seemed to dull.

paint: knobs (valspar: dreamy caramel), chevron pattern (valspar: gravity), frames (clark & kensington: ruby red)

total price: less than $20 for paint and the dresser was free!