Re-homing a dresser – Our Home on the Square

This is what our TV stand looked like last week. We’ve had the TV stand since late 2008. It was a Walmart purchase and probably still cost close to $100. I’ve been eyeing TV stands for awhile and the ones I’ve been liking have easily cost anywhere from $200 to $500 dollars. Like the one on here on wayfair. This one is listed for $489.00. I have a hard time convincing my husband that we need to spend that much on something when we currently have a functioning one (he’s an engineer function always trumps aesthetics ).

I love Pinterest and I’ve painted plenty of things before so I had seen other examples of when people change dressers into TV stands. I just needed to find a dresser. I searched craigslist and Fort Collins Buy/Sell/Swap but a lot of those dressers were either already painted and people were trying to sell them or they were more than I wanted to pay. I happen to wander into an Arc Thrift Shop and saw they sell used furniture, so a few weeks later when both of my littles were in school my sister and I set off to find a dresser. The first Arc didn’t have a dresser so we went to the Loveland one and found this gem.

It was priced $59.99 that day on an orange sticker and it was my luck that orange stickers were half price. I wasn’t a huge fan of the fan/seashell decoration on the top middle drawer but I knew I needed to create an open shelf for our Blue ray/DVD player and Wii.

So deglosser, a little sanding, a coat or two of primer , paint and then strategically placed gray glaze later I had a finished project. I spray painted the hard wear and had to figure out how to deal with the missing handle. I used an Oil rubbed bronze spay paint and decided to mount the hard wear upside down. and the middle drawers are actually one drawer not two so for the lower hard wear I used the metal pieces from the top drawers with out the pulls.