I fixed up two chest of drawers.
Before Picture:
What had to be done:
Taking off the old knobs.
Taking out the drawers.
Stripping it with Citristrip stripping gel.
Stripping the drawers with the same thing.
Scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape with putty knives.
Realizing that some of it isn't actually real wood, but laminate.
Picking out the colors blue, red, yellow, and purple.
Pondering on what color would look better for the background color.
Buying stencils at Hobby Lobby, then Michael's, then Jo-ann Frabric's.
Paint, paint, paint it blue.
STENCILING SUCKS. If you mess up, you wipe it with a wet rag and do it all over again really quick.
Then, after cussing about stenciling, we bought knobs at Menard's.
There you have it.
Before Picture:
Removed the top drawers with a small crow-bar.
Removed the piece of wood below the last drawer with a pry-bar.
Took off the handles.
Took out the drawers.
Power sanded it and some sanding by hand.
Put wood-filler on the top of the drawers and where the handles were, then sanded that.
Painted the entire thing purple. (Go me!) After a lot of vacuuming.
Primed the drawers.
Experimented with colors, and about puked when I put pink and yellow on it.
Painted the drawers green and the puzzle piece parts purple.
Ordered knobs on Etsy.com, spray painted the knobs green... which amazingly looks like the same color as the background.
Went to Home depot, put seven washer behind each knob so that they would stick out from the drawer, and put on a washer inside the drawer behind each knob, and bolted them on with pliers.
There you have it.
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