Best Habitation Quick Pigment Update To A Dresser

This dresser is 1 of those items you lot recollect having for the most business office of your life, a cracking slice of slice of furniture that you lot all the same intend is a valuable piece, but you're non that crazy close it whatsoever longer.

Well, that's how Mr. RLC felt close this piece, he was really proud to pick out this dresser to our almost empty novel dwelling identify twenty years ago, together with he all the same likes it, but he was opened upwards to give it a needed update.

Besides taking off the mirror, nix was done to it during all those years.  It is all the same a strong, audio slice that I similar to transcend away along inwards my bedroom.

The update was quick, only paint. I used chalk-paint, since I wanted a lite distressed look. For this detail projection I gave the dwelling identify made chalk-paint a try, inwards favor of keeping costs down.
There are many recipes on the spider web for DIY chalk-paint, some of them similar here, or this one here the 1 I followed since I already had POP.

I used:
DIY-chalk-paint made yesteryear mixing regular pigment (Valspar Dove white), amongst H2O together with POP.
Annie Sloan nighttime wax
Annie Sloan clear wax
Sand paper

With record I covered the top of the dresser from beingness painted.

I accept tried ASCP together with couldn't terminate comparison my DIY version to hers. Well, I'm non disappointed ;)  Here is amongst entirely 1 coat.

Two coats together with it was done.

H5N1 280-grid sand newspaper was used to give it a lite distressed look.  I used nighttime wax on all the crevices (it's hardly noticeable), but together with then clear wax was used all unopen to the painted areas.

I did  the same to the handles.

Since I didn't pigment the top of the dresser or the drawers, this was a really quick update.  For straightaway I'm happy amongst how it looks, but who knows, perchance subsequently on I mightiness pigment the whole thing.

Have you lot given DIY- chalk-paint a try? Do you lot desire to portion your recipe? Leave me your link inwards the comments department ;)