If you have a solid piece of vintage furniture, hang on to it with your grubby little hands for as long as you can. They just don’t build furniture to last like that anymore. Well, they probably do somewhere, but you aren’t going to find it for $100 on Craigslist. Or for free in your Grandma’s basement.
Vintage is where it’s at. But don’t think that just because it’s old it’s too sacred to personalize. Say it with me: It’s just furniture!
Rachel’s dresser has been on a journey, beginning with the virginal vintage finish you see here:
Then she had a daughter, and customized it with a pink ombre paint job for her nursery.
So sweet.
Then she had a son, and that old dresser birthed a new look too:
She simply sanded down the drawer fronts and stained them and added ring pulls. Such an easy change! It fits perfectly into the rustic nursery she designed for her little guy.
Out went the heavy brown paint in favor of a rich navy blue, with a few woodsy touches finish the look. Funny how the navy is also a deep, heavy color but manages to bring so much more life into the room than the brown. There’s a lesson here in vibrance, but we’ll talk about that another day.
See more of this nursery and the vintage dresser makeover on Rachel’s blog Two Wongs Make a Right.
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