Evan has had this dresser for as long as he can remember. At one time it belonged to his grandfather (until recently he thought his grandfather had built it, but according to The Tycoon this was not the case). Ever since we got married and he moved it into our first apartment he's been saying it would look really good refinished. I saw the potential and agreed. I also think it is pretty cool that we will be able to pas it on to one of our kids who can refinish it how they want and keep it going on.
It took us about a month (we put in a few hours each weekend) but we finally finished!
Day 2 of sanding. This is the closest I have to a before picture. Apparently, I never thought it picture worthy... lol. You can see the color though, and some of the missing handles.
We sanded by hand. Oh my word it took forever. But it was well worth it! You can see my spring/summer wreath behind him :)
After we finished sanding. We took all the handles off (since half were missing anyhow). This was a big moment for us. No more sanding! YEEHAW
Then Evan stained it and added new handles. It's like a whole new piece of furniture! You can see where the handles were because that part wasn't stained originally, but I am choosing not to notice that. We put a lot of work in and I am very pleased with the outcome!
We just have a few more projects to do before our visitors arrive! Good thing we have a few weeks still!
1 comment:
It looks great - good job!
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