Bedroom Set Restoration

I was recently contacted by a local client to give a facelift to a bedroom set; a dresser and two nightstands. It was a pretty well made set of furniture, but it was definitely showing some signs of wear. The framing was all real wood, and all of the panels were particle board with wood veneer. Since there were some gouges and scratches that went all the way through the veneer, restoring the existing finish wasn't really an option. She wanted to go with something lighter anyway, so we picked out two tones of grey that I think turned out great.

Here are some before pics:

 




I started with the two nightstands, sanded through the original finish, and popped out the top panels. I planned to paint the drawer faces and the top panels the light shade, and the rest of the nightstand would be the dark shade. I ended up keeping the original hardware, since it seemed to go really nicely with the two-tone paint job.




Here are the nightstands finished up.








And now for the dresser. All of the footings were loose, and one actually fell off as soon as we picked up the dresser to unload it. I fixed those up with some new hardware, and now they're all securely in place.






I wrapped the drawers in plastic wrap to keep the paint off the drawer interior, and side panels.




I painted the mirror frame and supports in my art painting table. I made the supports to attach the mirror to the dresser. The client had it leaned up against the wall behind the dresser :-P




After a little bit of tetris getting the drawer mounts to line up again, everything was back in its rightful place, and those colors looked amazing together!






This project took up just about all the space I had in the garage, but it worked out. I couldn't be happier with the finished product. The colors look absolutely beautiful together, and the client was thoroughly pleased.