Hey friends! I’m back to update you on our progress for the $100 Room Challenge! In week 1 I shared the before, then I shared the mood board, now I’m back to share the dresser that I made over for the closet!
This dresser was a steal for $30 at our local Habitat for Humanity Restore. In the store it had a beat up mirror attached to it, and I was able to negotiate the price down from $35 to $30 by not taking the mirror. It’s always worth trying!
**This post contains affiliate links** I used my favorite furniture paint, Amy Howard One Step Paint, in the color “Drama Queen”.
Because it’s still too cold to paint in the garage, I ended up tackling this one night in our kitchen once the kids were asleep. I started out by giving it a good cleaning, removing the hardware, and then using this paint brush to get to the spots that the roller couldn’t get to.
Then I used a mini-roller to roll two coats on the entire dresser.
Once it was done I used this chevron shelf liner that I had left over from other projects. 
I used the original hardware for the knobs, but purchased these modern pulls to replace the ornate ones. I just sprayed all of the hardware with this gold spray paint.
Replacing the middle pulls took $12 from my small $100 budget, but it was worth it to give this dresser a modern look.
At this point the closet is actually REALLY close to being finished, and I wasn’t ready to share everything, so I decided to photograph it in her bedroom.
I’m also totally obsessed with her wallpaper and couldn’t help but use it as the perfect photo backdrop. Altogether this dresser cost me $42 ($30 for the dresser and $12 for the pulls). I had the pink paint, gold spray paint, and shelf liner on hand, but if I would have had to purchase those it would have been an additional $45… sometimes being a DIY supply hoarder comes in handy! Either way, re-doing this dresser for $87 is a bargain and it has so much more personality than anything you could buy.
Next Wednesday I’ll be back to share her entire closet reveal! If you want to follow along with the other bloggers each transforming spaces for $100 you can follow see their spaces below!
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The dresser is so girlie! I love the modern pulls you used with it!
Thanks! It’s fun being able to go totally girly!
I love the dresser but I can’t stop staring at that wall paper!! SOOO pretty! My daughter would love it!
Isn’t it amazing?! It wasn’t cheap but I love it so much that it was worth it.
What a lucky little girl who gets to use this dresser! That’s a great color…I would have loved it when I was little.
RIGHT?! Me too… although my room had purple and gold sponge paint which at the time I thought was the coolest!
oh how I adore this room! LOVE the pink!
Thank you! It is a super fun pink! Girls are SOOooo much fun!
It turned out so cute!!! I love it!
Aw thank you! I was lucky to find it for such a steal!
love the pink dresser! My daughter would be in heaven if I painter her dresser (which is on my very long to-do list). And I agree that those pulls were totally worth the hit to the budget.
Thanks so much! I agree it was totally a $12 well spent!
That wallpaper is amazing!! I love the dresser! I have a daughter is an adult, and two younger sons, so no more girly stuff for me, sniff sniff. I cannot wait to see this reveal!
What a shame! After only having boys for the last 8 years I’m eating all this girl stuff up! I’m sure an adult daughter is also wonderful.
First, what a fun color! Second, love the gold pulls and knobs. Perfect. Last, I am in love with that wallpaper. It goes perfectly with the dresser! Can’t wait for the reveal!