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My wife and I have been trying to gain some control over the mis-matched styles of our hand-me-down and second-hand furniture lately. Last year we painted the two tall dressers black and added new hardware. I have had those since I was a kid but they were always unfinished.
The other day I decided to make the short middle dresser match the other two since we are using it as a TV stand. This dresser was a cheap IKEA dresser that my wife bought for college. Now it looks a little more like a matched living room set.
So this is what I did:
- Took the drawers out and cut off the top strip (with the finger slot)
- Glued a solid strip across the top
- Routed a profile around the drawers to match the other dressers
- Added the scrolled shape to the bottom front
- Painted and added new hardware to match
Before:
After:
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13 comments so far
TedM
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posted 471 days ago
Ingenious! A perfect match!
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thetimberkid
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posted 471 days ago
Great job!
Thanks fror the post
Callum
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gizmodyne
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posted 471 days ago
Great fix Blake.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 471 days ago
Very nice Blake.
And you made it look just as old as the others.
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PaBull
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posted 471 days ago
SMART MOVE
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Dadoo
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posted 471 days ago
Great fix Blake. They really match the old ones very well.
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trifern
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posted 471 days ago
Great solution Blake. Thanks for sharing.
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Davesfunwoodworking
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posted 471 days ago
Not bad Blake. Looks like they go hand and hand. Don’t tell any one and they would never know. Great job!!
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Zuki
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posted 471 days ago
Great match there Blake. Why throw out a good piece of furniture when you can reuse it.
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Tony
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posted 470 days ago
Huge improvement – you just need to distress it a little more, then you will not be able to tell the left from the right for age.
Nice job
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clieb91
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posted 470 days ago
nice redo Blake. it mathes perfectly.
CtL
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cajunpen
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posted 470 days ago
Looks like a great solution to some mismatched furniture. I suspect that we have all had that “mismatched” furniture arrangement at one time or another :-)).
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Kevin Violette
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posted 469 days ago
SWEET! Well done, it looks like a match to me.
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