THE DRESSER IS DONE!!!!

Ok, it took a bit more stripper than I thought. But it's finally done! YAY!!!
After a lot of scraping and probably inhalation of a bit of fumes, I got most of the paint off the dresser

When I told Cory that I was done scraping off paint (despite a few little spots) his response was..."well, it looks distressed..." Yeah. I guess you never know what you are going to get when you start ripping layers of paint off old furniture. We found lots of different variations in the wood, some white paint or putty, places where wood had been scraped off, etc.

So...smooth surface or not, I moved on to white paint. It took three coats to get the dresser covered to the point of looking somewhat decent. At beginning my only thought was, there is no way this is going to look presentable enough to be in the house and not the garage... however three coats later--not bad. One tip from this stage: I started painting with a brush and second two coats I did mostly with a roller. WOW that is a time saver!




After the white paint I took some glaze that I had mixed brown paint in (just a little brown paint goes a LONG way) and painted it on and quickly (the tutorial I found online says within 15 minutes...but it dries WAY faster than that) wiped it off with a an old towel. PS you need a LOT of towels for this. A LOT. Luckily we have no shortage of crappy old towels in our house :) I did the dresser in sections because really once you paint even just the top it starts to dry and you need to wipe it off so you have a white "antiqued" dresser and not a glazey brown dresser. After it was done I splurged a little and bought some new drawer pulls that I thought matched well. I'm really happy with how it turned out. The brown paint stuck well in the crevices which is what I wanted. FUN STUFF!!!!