Better After reader Amanda had found the perfect dresser to fit at the end of her bed. Spacious but narrow, short enough to be level with the mattress, with the perfectly weathered reclaimed wood exterior …
Ok, not so much on the reclaimed wood part. It actually looked like it was stolen from the hair salon of my childhood.
You know what I’m talking about right? It smells like perms and looks like a Patrick Nagal print?
Yes, that white melamine would have fit right in at The Hairport.
But Amanda was not really aiming for ’80s Glamazon in her bedroom; she was after that aforementioned reclaimed wood look. So she didn’t get mad. She got clad!
Cladding, to be precise, is how she described the process of wrapping the old dresser in new wood. I’ve been looking at it for a long time, and still can’t be sure how she did it. Amanda doesn’t have a blog, so maybe she’ll share some details in the comments!
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Amanda dux
October 28, 2015 at 3:15 PMLol I’d love to share details – I do have a Facebook page called Rustic Duck Furniture (on instagram too!!!) But basically the sides were trimmed out first with 1×3’s to get rid of that nasty curve. The top because it had a really small lip (yay awesome) was padded out with paint sticks before adding some 1x6s. The middle of the sides had bead board air nailed into it – and the rest was pretty easy by just attaching extra wood to the doors and drawer fronts – along with some rustic hardware 🙂
Elaine
October 28, 2015 at 8:30 PM“The rest was pretty easy” she says…..is it me or are you slipping some super-handy skilled readers into the mix?
Andrea
October 29, 2015 at 9:21 AMAmanda, Do the 3 drawers in the middle still function as drawers with “faux” hardware added to make it look like a door?
Michelle
October 29, 2015 at 5:39 PMI love this, though Amanda has made a decision I must make more difficult, haha. I have an old buffet table I’m going to be using for our tv, and it has an awful curved front just like that! It’s all real wood, but I’ve been going back and forth on how to deal with it. I think I may be able to just remove it, but if I couldn’t, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do. I think I know now! This is gorgeous, now I’m wondering if I should just go this route in the first place!
Suzanne
November 1, 2015 at 5:39 AMI’m laughing so hard because, now that I am approaching 40 and suddenly need my hair colored every 4.5 weeks, I was in search of a more reasonable salon. I found one and they did a great job…so great I can’t believe it’s so reasonable……. They obviously saved money by not redoing their shop since 1984. It’s mauve, has the melamine “fixtures,” and lots if mirrors. I should show them this post but don’t want to raise the price!!!!
Amanda
November 5, 2015 at 1:30 PMHI Andrea I’m sorry it took so long to reply!! Yes the drawers are still 3 normal drawers with 1×6’s attached to the front with a groove cut down the middle of each one so it looks like a solid door but they are still 3 drawers. I put push closers on the inside of the drawers (pain in the butt) so all you have to do is push the drawer in and it springs open. The hardware is just to make it look like a door 🙂
Megan
January 4, 2016 at 11:18 PMHow in the world…?