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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY BABY dressing room reveal

Our little dressing room has grown and matured so much in a few short years.
This room serves all our clothing needs including laundry folding, ironing, and every day dressing.
 
 
 
 Here she is as a youngster.
 
And now she has graduated, making both of us very proud.
This is the area that we needed the most, a place to put clean laundry and fold it.
 
I saw this frame available at the auction I knew I wanted it and knew it would be painted.
The Whitehall Laundry sign is an actual a fabric laundry "BAG".
I purchased the bag from a lady that deals in estates and furniture.
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One of the many signs hanging on the walls is also covering the fuse box.
The curtain tie backs & scrolled metal shelf brackets are second hand buys.
The shelf is cut from 2 pine bed rails and is extra deep.
This thick vanity surface was stolen from a large midcentury desk I tore down for parts. We found
this drawers and pull out on the side of the road. I customized and installed them under the surface.
 
This solid brass urn had a wonderful patina in dark reds and browns when I first got it.
It was handmade in India, sorry India, I had to paint it.
 
The stacked dresser are perfect in this corner.
Details about their transformation can be found here.
 
I painted these baskets white using my sprayer.
New baskets whether white or brown are priced very close so think before you buy.Because spray painting old brown baskets takes a lot of paint and time which will translateinto a good deal of money but it is an option to recycle them.
One problem I still have with the room is an ironing board.
I wanted to get one in a cabinet that hangs on the wall then hinge this full length mirror to it.
Mom and Dad had one in their house and it was great,
but the cost of these wonderful things is high
so I will make due for now until I can find one or figure out how to build one.
 
 More pictures can be seen at OUR HOME TOUR,
and
I have also added some pictures on the BEFORE AND AFTER page
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Dressing up Furniture with Hardware

Paris Grey Vintage Dresser
One of my favorite parts to Upstyling furniture, is picking out knobs and pulls. Now sometimes, you get lucky and have a piece with beautiful vintage hardware and you dont have to do a thing. Here I only switched out the top two knobs. The pulls are original.
Other times, I will use the original knobs...but update them. Here, I just painted the pulls the same color as the dresser or at least added touches of the paint color to tie it all together.
Pretty vintage pulls.
Just a light coat of chalk paint to tone down the brass.
Knobs lightly painted for a tone on tone look.
But, sometimes you might have furniture with missing or dated knobs.
So... in this post I want to round up some of my best advice for dressing up furniture with hardware.
Best way to clean dirty hardware:To clean dirty hardware
I like to soak in a bath of baking soda and vinegar and use a old toothbrush for scrubbing if necessary.
To remove paint on knobs without chemicals check out
Familyhandyman.com/doors/how-to-remove-paint-from-hardware
My favorite shops for Hardware:Hobbylobby.com
Great selection, a lot of original styles and all at a great place. Search the site under knobs or pulls. In store, it seems knobs are always 50% off and always check for coupons.
Etsy.com
Etsy is a great source for vintage hardware, beautiful glass knobs and painted knobs. Shop and favorite your most loved sites so you can return again. One of my favorite shops on Etsy for hardware is Etsy.com/shop/Firstfinds
Anthropology.com
Really beautiful knobs but a little pricey. I like to shop discounted knobs when I am in the store and usually I use Anthropology only for pieces requiring a few statement knobs
Best tip of the day…..for Screws to that are too short:One day I was looking for help in Home Depot because my knob screws were too short for my drawers, I was introduced to this product. Maybe I was late to the party, but I had never seen these! Now, I always keep these on hand. These are easily snapped to adjust to your needed length. Click here to see my simple tutorial on cutting these to size.
A drawer with too many holes or holes that are too big:For too many holes or holess that are too big for your screws, you will want to back fill all the holes with a good non shrinking wood fill that holds screws. Look for products like this, that say something like "strong nail & screw anchoring."
Hardware that requires visible screws and does not come with matching screws:Now I did say I liked Hobby Lobby, and I do, but over the summer I ordered these pulls. They are actually a great style and with a great price. However, when I got them, I realized that while they fit the 3 inch hole span in my dresser, they were not designed for regular knob screws. These required 3 small screws to attach them from the front of the drawer and they did not come with any screws! I eventually found these screws would fit but…
But, the holes were too big so I had to fill them in.
Then, I needed more holes too, so I had to mark and drill them.
Then, the screws did not match the hardware so I had to touch them up with metallic bronze paint to get them to match.
But, in the end, I had a dresser all "dressed up" with hardware.
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ARTICLES DE PARIS french dressing chest

 
ONE MONTH TO WIN IT
craft competition started last week so
I stopped in to see all the project for the week and to cast my vote.
There are 12 compeditors and each week there is a required subject to work with.
The first week brought many projects using graphics from the well known site
THE GRAPHICS FAIRY
It just so happened there was a great lingerie chest revamp that definetly stuck out in the competition.
I love a great furniture redo.
FREDDY AND PETUNIA
Mean while I had a dresser stuck in the corner of my work room needing a little something special.
Heres what I did and the image I used.
 
After altering the printout into 9 reverse sheets from the computer, trimming it, taping it together and positioning it on the drawers it took an hour and a half to burnish the transfer onto the surface.
 
My hands and arms do get sore because I don’t stop once I start because
I dont want to risk the image shifting.
 
Michaels has tons of Sharpie Markers for all sorts of projects.
Who could ask for more than paint in a pen. I bought 2 brown
paint pens for this dresser.
I talked about using Sharpies when I first did my TRAVEL CHEST
Once finished I sanded all the drawer faces for an aged look.
Then they get waxed and buffed.
 
 
Different graphic transfer methods can be found here?
  
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ALSO ...
Stop in to see whats new in shabby chic white hardware available at firstfinds.
 
There are over 1000 pieces of used hardware to choose from
Etsy Shop.
 
 
 
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On another note ...
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interviewed me last week.
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