Furniture Revamp: Goodwill Dresser

Most of my furniture is painted in the same way {similar to my nightstands here and trunk here}. I usually strip, sand, add two coats of primer and two coats of paint. If I am being lazy {like I was here} or it's a piece that isn't wooden, I won't strip it. I still have to sand it to get the old paint off and make the new paint stick.

First I sanded the entire piece, I used a little bit of paint thinner to get the gold paint out of the creases. Somewhere between Goodwill and my house the dresser got a large deep scratch down the top of it. For step by step instruction head over to Our Military Home and see my guest post{here} on how to fix blemished wood furniture.

The Before

It was a pretty easy fix, basically you just fill the crack with wood putty and wipe it smooth. You may have to do this several times. Once dry you sand it smooth with sandpaper or a small sander {like the Black & Decker Mouse, which is what I used}.

Recently I have been using my Rustoleum 2x cover  spray primer even on furniture, though I painted it on this particular piece. I rolled on the primer then a few days later the paint. It took a couple of hours, but I think the dresser turned out wonderfully.

For the handles I spray primed them with one coat of Rustoleum 2x primer than two coats of Rustoleum glossy black spray paint. The middle drawers were missing two of the draws pulls, but luckily for me the Alameda Flea Market always has drawer pulls in every color so I bought three small black crystal nobs {$5 each}.

The dresser was $40 and everything else besides the drawer pulls I already had in my shed. So I have a great wooden white dresser and it only cost $55!

What do you think?

How to you re-finish furniture?

XOXO,

Annie