Like-New Dresser!

Hey!

BIG news!

Simon finished the dresser he's been refinishing!!! Woooo!! I think he's been working on it for a good month and half! I mean he only worked on it about 2-3 days a week after work and such. We bought this dresser at a Salvation Army for $20 after Sophie saw it there!

Here is the dresser refinishing story in pictures...

1. The Dresser before, we didn't get a before picture from the front with all the drawers in and such... See how it was painted "wood grain" ick!

2. Simon started to sand off the paint on the top. He found out that the top is particle board with a pine laminate... He found that out the hard way when he was scraping the corner. The rest of the dresser is solid wood.

3. Simon hard at work! I bought him a multi-sander for his birthday back in March, that's probably when he got started!

4. The dresser had 3 layers of paint on it that Simon first stripped with paint stripper stuff before sanding! This is what the drawers looked like after Simon stripped the paint, the base coat of paint was really thick and soaked in and black... The dresser is a "Broyhill premier" made in the 80's.

5. The drawers all stripped and sanded and ready to be stained! Simon did the stripping in the driveway when it was nice, the sanding in the basement in a make-shift tarp room to contain the dust, and then he took everything over to Sophie and Jeff's house (across the street) and stained etc in their garage.

READY FOR THE FINISHED PRODUCT????


(I made Simon lay on top, he didn't really want to..)

We chose a red mahogany stain mmmm nice!

Now Simon has a solid pine dining room table from Sophie's brother (that he didn't want anymore) to refinish next, and then I'd like some bed-side tables to match the dresser. and we might make a headboard together: Simon doing the wood parts and I think we'd like some leather panels on it.. I would do that part!

Enjoy! I know we will!