Thrifty Magpies: Dresser Makeover

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Dresser Makeover

I was really looking for a cute dresser for B's room and stumbled upon this dresser off of Craigslist. Solid wood. Great bones. Just needed a little TLC.

I knew I was going to go with an almond for the main color but what was I going to do about the knobs and pulls? Being the vintage thrifty girl that I am, I scoured eBay for some inspiration. I'm just saying there were too many to choose from but I knew I wanted either glass or brass and decided on the latter.

I saw these and knew that they would be perfect for this dresser. $30 and a week later, they were mine!

I just had to show you the detail! Just the most gorgeous pulls I have ever laid eyes on!! So dainty and feminine.

You can gasp now but yes, I primed and painted them. I know!! My husband was in disbelief! " They're solid brass and your painting them?" Yeppers!
I had a vision and leaving them in there original state was NOT in my plans. For the knobs I actually went back to eBay and scored some vintage pink bakelight ones with a brass fitting.

After a little sanding and two coats of Kilz primer she was ready to be painted. I went with RustOleum Painters Touch in Almond for the main color. For the drawers I went with Pink Ginger from Behr and Kona Brown from RustOleum Painters Touch. The drawer pulls, after they were primed with Kilz, were painted with the same almond color as the main dresser.

I have to say that it was a lot of work but I am pleased as punch at the final result!
See, paint CAN be your friend!

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The Magpie's Nest

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests. So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it. First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.

"Oh, that's how it's done!" said the thrush, and away it flew - and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.

"Now I know all about it!" said the blackbird, and off it flew - and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

"Oh, that 's quite obvious!" said the wise owl, and away it flew - and owls have never made better nests since.

After this the magpie took some twigs and twined them round the outside.

"The very thing!" said the sparrow, and off he went - so sparrows make rather slovenly nests to this day.

Well, then Madge magpie took some feathers and stuff, and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

"That suits me!" cried the starling, and off it flew - and very comfortable nests have starlings.

So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waiting to the end.

Meanwhile Madge magpie went on working and working without looking up, till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said, "One's enough."

But the turtle-dove kept on saying, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

Then the magpie got angry and said, "One's enough, I tell you!"

Still the turtle-dove cried, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again.

And that is why different birds build their nests differently.