These dressers. They hold so many memories of my childhood.
They also, obviously, hold lots of dirt from fingerprints over the last 31 years. 🙂 I had scrubbed and scrubbed them, to no avail.
Maybe even a name inscription found its way onto the chest of drawers.
My sister and I shared a room for several years growing up. These were our dressers. We are 3 years, 8 months apart in age. I won’t tell who’s older. 🙂
My sister and I
My daughters
I am very blessed that I am able to use them for my own daughters. They are 3 years, 10 months apart in age. Pretty awesome, right? I was so excited when we found out our #3 was a girl- simply because I love having a sister! I hope and pray they are as close as my sister and I are today. {we won’t talk about how I treated her growing up. 🙂 }
Anyway, I’m getting all teary eyed and we were talking about dressers, no? This month I’m excited to be joining a group of bloggers who are all “Refreshing” a piece of furniture each month. This one of my favorite things to do, and by do I mean think of it and have my husband paint it. 😉
This month, the theme is “Inspired by” and my furniture redo is inspired by my childhood! (Be sure to check out the other bloggers at the end of the post!)
I really wanted to keep these dressers because they are REAL wood, y’all! Now I have my fair share of IKEA furniture, but there’s something about an old piece of furniture made out of the real stuff.
So I convinced my hubby to help me paint them. And by him helping me, I mean him doing most of the work. 🙂 He’s a much better painter than I, I promise!
Even primer made them look better!
I had a moment of indecision- of course after the awesome neighbor boys had helped Ben carry these very heavy babies down the stairs. But it was time to paint them. I will miss the sweet yellow and blue flowers I’ve seen in my various houses the last 31 years. Our older daughter’s nursery was painted to match the flowers.
I did do my own stencil work. 🙂
The chest of drawers is completely finished! Not bad for a weekend. {Things move sloooow with a toddler around!} What do you think? Please don’t say you hate it, I might cry!
I love, love, love items featuring initials. If there is such an item in a store, I almost always look at it longingly.
So why not put an initial on the furniture, right?
The other dresser will be done soon. I had a stencil mistake at around 9 p.m. Sunday night and didn’t have the motivation to fix it right then. Another initial adorns that baby, for my other baby girl. 🙂
Total cost of this project: around $16- four cans of spray paint at Hobby Lobby- on sale of course! 🙂
Pink paint, primer, and stencil were already on hand.
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The re-do looks gorgeous. Nice hubby for obliging you! :0) Sorry you had to paint over the pretty vintagey flowers and all the memories, though. But it is a plus that you got to keep it!
I am a dum dum head. I deleted the email with our guest post stuff. When were we supposed to do this thang? Next Tuesday, right? And had we decided on a topic? Email me if you don’t mind. XO
Thanks so much! It was sad, but they look sooo much better.
Just e-mailed you! 🙂
I think they look great, good job and way to be green 😉
Thanks! My older daughter definitely enjoys the pink. 🙂
WHOA! What a beautiful transformation! Thanks so much for linking up with Whip it Up Wednesday this week!
Thanks Emily! 🙂
I love the inital…great job! It still looks just as sweet as before!!
Thanks for linking up to Show & Share!
Thank you Jennifer! 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing, please come back Wednesday night to relink where you will get a lot more traffic. I surprised and confused everyone with a linky party on Monday on a specific subject–stretching our creativity.
This turned out so cute!!
This turned out so sweet!
You did a great job! I love the detailing! and I agree the primer did make a huge difference before you even finished!
Aww what sweet memories. My girls are really close in age, and just recently split their rooms up, but they loved being together. Nice job!
What a great story! I love that you have your daughters using the same dressers you and your sister used. Adorable!! Thank you for participating in #furnitureREFRESH
Awww, the sweetness of this #furnitureREFRESH is almost too much! Love that your girls get a bit of history with their dresser updates. 🙂
Great refresh Kelli! I’m almost positive my sister and I had the same dresser in our room growing up. So fun you can now use it for your girls.