Dresser Fixer Upper

This dresser was left on the curb!!! Can you believe it?!  Me and my hubs were relaxing on the couch watching Arrested Development when I saw this listing come up on Craigslist!  

It was in Tempe, which is about a 15-20 minute drive for us, but I didn't care!  I hopped in my car and drove over, hoping it would still be there!  

It was!  I have been lucky with dressers lately....2 freebies in the past two months! Oh Yeah!

Too bad it didn't look like this sitting on the curb!  Unfortunately, the poor guy was hammered! 

 I named him Buster.....cause ya know....who doesn't like Buster?!

His back slats were in a stack next to the dresser when I picked him up!  Luckily they were all there, except a small piece on the bottom that was missing:

His back was easy enough to fix, but his bottom still had issues, so I reinforced the bottom with some scrap wood:

But the WORST thing about him was that someone had filled his keyholes with wood filler!

 How sad is that?!

I thought this would be harder than it actually was to fix.  I just took my drill, and drilled away until all the wood filler was gone.

Anyways, I am in love with this guy!  

The gray I used is Valspar's Wet Pavement.   

 The white on the drawers is Valspar's Betsy's Linen.

Then I glazed him with Martha Stewart's Metallic Glaze.

 While I was at my local Antique Store I found this awesome brass hardware that I thought would look smashing on him!  

And an added bonus was they had keyhole escutcheons to match! 

He was a major project, but I had a blast refinishing this guy!

So what do you think?  Does Buster look pretty chic with the brass hardware?  Or is it too much?! 

  

Therena

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