Painted Yellow Dresser for Nursery

As one of the final touches in Travis's nursery, Jon, my dad, and I all painted this dresser that we'd been given. It was frustrating having all of the baby clothes scattered around the room while the dresser was out of commission, but as always, the end result was so worth it!

Now I apologize for my terrible blog-photo taking, in that this is the only "before" picture I have. I forgot to take one before my dad took the dresser to his house, and then even after I asked him to, he forgot to take a before picture before he started priming it. But you get to see one side of how it looked before we started.

Also, here is a picture of the drawers, ugly gold handles already removed, and all ready to be sanded and primed!



My dad was nice enough to sand/prime the entire dresser, and I was in charge of the drawers. I just gave it a light sanding, just enough to scuff it up a little bit, then primed each drawer.



Here it is, back in the garage, waiting on the primer to dry!



The entire project took almost two weeks. One coat of primer and three coats of paint, and we weren't able to make it to my dad's every day in order to get some done.



Jon and my dad did the dresser, and I kept my job and painted the drawers.

Then we went to Lowe's to get new drawer handles. The ones before were extremely ugly and they were gold--definitely would not go with yellow. I originally wanted plain white handles, but Lowe's didn't have any white handles at all. So we settled on black, which actually turned out quite nicely.

So after two weeks, we finally got our dresser back and filled with clothes! :)

I really like how the yellow turned out, even if it wasn't the yellow I was originally thinking of. I wanted something more "sunflower-y" but it still looks nice. Jon wasn't too happy when I told him I got yellow paint, because I first wanted to paint the dresser blue. But after the wall art I made, I thought yellow would match quite nicely. Even though "boys do not have yellow dressers!" (Says Jon.) 

We also ended up with way too much paint leftover. I've never bought paint before and I ended up going to the store by myself to get some. The woman asked if I just needed one gallon of paint, so I just said yes. Apparently you can get smaller sizes than one gallon? Jon and my dad laughed at me when I showed up with my whole huge gallon of paint for one dresser. Oh well, we have enough for about 100 touch-ups if it should need it!

Have you spiced up any rooms in your house by painting the furniture? It was my first time painting anything, so I had a lot of fun! :)