Meghan’s post about the ugly dresser turned into a lovely toasted marshmallow, challenged me to work some wonder with a yellow dresser that has been passed around the family for years now. I called Meghan and asked her what she thought of dark grey. She said go for it told me to strip the knobs down to the wood.
Best of all, MDMIL (my dear mother in law) gave me the most gorgeous art nouveau mirror with sconces on either side that I will hang above this once MDBIL (my dear brother in law) has some time to wire it into the wall.
I loved that some of the old paint stayed on all smudgy (Ok, I admit it, this is part laziness, and part “I want it to have character”. After the third coat of paint stripper I gave up and decided they looked perfect.)
I threw the same shade of Ace “Rockaway Beach” onto my headboard and now I have a nice little mismatched set.
That cute little dresser was a hand-me-down to us when we lived in Miami. It came to us a brown trying to mimic wood. I loved it and painted it white, then later jazzed it up with the yellow. Then in the era of my great purging, off it went to Caitlin.
I really do like the stripped knobs. I think they’re perfect.
I love the shape of the top drawer. You ladies are motivating me to strip a table I’ve been meaning to do for years.