The Inspired Nest: August 2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Making the Old, New Again!

It has been a while since I have blogged. Summer has been fun, busy and long. The kids have monopolized all of my time and I have loved every minute of it.

But I have done a few projects along the way.

My bedroom suite is old. It was old when I originally got it as a teen. But I love it and feel like it is a classic and traditional design. But it has taken a beating over the years. It has been moved to 8 different homes. I was tired of looking at the scuffs, scratches and white paint marks. So I made an attempt to restain and shine it up. This was completely off the cuff with no real idea if this would turn out or not.

I was amazed at how well I did!

Here you can see what I have been living with.

The brass on the hardware was discolored and gross too!

Each drawer was scratched and dinged up.

Here is the after of the same drawer.

I wiped stain over the cleaned drawer to fill in the marks.

Each drawer was restained and left to dry for over 5 days. They were extremely sticky during this time. Once the tackiness stopped I went over each drawer with wax. The excess stain came off during this step. After I let the wax dry, I buffed and polished the dresser. It looked brand new.