This week I decided I’d rather buy a $40 dresser on Craigslist and redo it than buy the same thing at Article for $350.
You, too, can be this awesome in 3 simple steps.
The Process
Choosing a dresser:
- Spend a few days trolling around craigslist when you should be sleeping.
- Remember that you should probably have measured your closet before telling people you are interested in their dresser…
- Go look at a dresser listed as “Solid Dresser” (see image above).
- Congratulate yourself on having found a wonderful all-wood dresser that is ugly enough to make a nice “before-after” photo.
- But don’t actually look at it to realize it’s actually made of particle board. No, you will have that fun surprise waiting for you at home.
- Get your friend to help you pick up the dresser, then realize the dresser doesn’t fit in his car. Another thing you might have measured beforehand 😬
Recovering from shock:
- Text your friend a photo of the particle board dresser in all its horribleness.
- Rage about how the listing said it was solid wood! Write a fb rant about how people are the worst.
- Look at the listing indignantly, and discover that it never said the dresser was solid wood, just that it was “solid.”
- Realize that the supplies to paint the dresser will cost more than the dresser is worth. 😭
Painting your deluxe particle-wood dresser:
- When the hardware dude approaches you asking if you need help, be dumb enough to ask, thinking he might know more about paint than you do.
- Explain to said hardware store dude what chalk paint is, that it’s not the same as chalkboard paint (“So you want to WRITE on the dresser?”), that it’s not the same as “flat” paint (So you want paint that’s flatter than “flat”?). Pretend he has helped you so he will go away.
- Paint the dresser.