Finished Project: Painted Ikea Dresser.

There's this store called Ikea and I drool every time I check out their website. I'm not sure if there are any Ikea's in Peru or France (I assume that's where you guys live because my blog tracks the countries of my visitors and you guys are my most loyal fans! Thanks for reading!), but there's one in my country. The only problem is that it's 8 million light years away from my house, even if you speed to get there.

Lucky for me, my husband and I had to drive down to that area for a family event and left EXTREMELY early so he could buy me stuff from Ikea.

I only bought two things (I really wanted to buy about 47 things, but I somehow managed to hold back) = a cabinet thing for my dining room and a dresser for my bedroom.

I picked an unfinished dresser because I wanted to transform it. I had a beautiful blank canvas to work with after my husband slaved over assembling it for me:

Thank goodness for big driveways!

I decided to paint it white with a silver accent. That way, I could repurpose it without repainting it. So, I grabbed all my materials:

Paint, paint brush, spray paint, and lace. Maybe you already know where this is going.

I took the drawers out and painted everything white.

This is a horrible picture, but you can still tell the drawer fronts are white.

I needed to take a bit of a break to let the dresser/drawers dry, so I pretended to be a model...

It's hard to be a model.

I ended up painting two coats of white just to make sure I had the best base for what I needed to do next...

But, wait... At that same moment, Joe was playing with his chainsaw in the front yard.

He's so manly, I'm surprised I was able to get any work done!!

He sent Quinn over to me to show me something in their pail...

A big huge frog!! Gross. I haven't taught her to be scared of frogs yet on purpose or accident.

Anyway, Husband, stop being so sexy. And Kids, stop being so cute. I have a dresser to finish painting!!

While waiting for the second coat to dry, I spray painted the drawer pulls.

Drawer pulls before.

Drawer pulls after.

Back to the drawers. This is the part that makes this project blog worthy.

I laid the lace lovingly over the drawers...

I paid $0.25 for it at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago.

I tried to model with my spray paint to make my spray paint seem more interesting.

Then I sprayed as evenly as I could over the lace/drawer.

The sun makes this look pretty ugly, but it looks really cute in person!

I did this to all the drawers except for one. I decided to keep at least one drawer white to, hopefully, add some drama.

Remember the blue lamp shade?! I bought a new lamp for it.

I am pleased with how my dresser turned out. I like that it adds a little interest in my boring bedroom. My remodel is coming along quite nicely and I can't wait for it to be finished.

I could've done a better job making it even. I don't know how, but I'm sure it's possible.

A close up picture.

One thing to mention though: I'd have liked the design on the lace be more prominent. Thinking back, if I'd taped it down on all four sides, I might've gotten a more striking design. Oh well. I hope that information helps if you decide to do a version of this on your furniture.