In August, I will be moving into my first apartment. No more dorm life, no more living at home. My very own place. I will be living in a beautiful complex in Hillsboro Village in Nashville, TN with just me and my monster cat, Dietrich. This has inspired me to begin to think about decoration. The first thing I wanted to get was a dresser. If you know how many clothes I have (too many/not enough), you will soon realize that it's not big enough to hold all of them. I'm planning to use it mostly for storage/underwear/etc.
I purchased a dresser from a furniture artist named Caleb in Lee's Summit, MO. He had already distressed and stained it which made my job a lot easier. He also showed me some of his other work - bookshelves, tables, mirrors, etc. and it was really great stuff. So feel free to shoot him an email if you're interested in seeing/buying some of his pieces. He does custom work as well.
I brought my dresser home and began by cutting out fabric in the shapes and sizes of the individual drawers. I bought some great ikat-patterned fabric from Joann's, and used Mod Podge to adhere it to the front of the shelves (after removing knobs). I just put the Mod Podge straight on the wood, smoothed out the fabric, and then put some more over the top.
Once the fabric was on, we let it dry and then took it outside to spray it with some finishing spray so that the drawers wouldn't feel sticky. We let that dry as well.
We then bought some really freaking cute knobs from Anthropologie as well as a beautiful handle for the smaller top drawer. We put them on, and ta da! We were done.
Here are some pictures of the finished project:
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| the beautiful handle/top drawer |
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| the other handles |
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| The whole thing! |
