Dresser Repainted!

So I have been telling my hubby how much I have been wanting to try out this new fad, chalk paint. We purchased a gorgeous media stand for a little over $300 a few months ago. I absolutely love it, but  I realized that this is totally something we could have done ourselves. After hyping my husband up he finally bought a dresser that he found at our church's thrift store for only $10! Now, I am SERIOUSLY kicking myself right now because I forgot to take a "before" picture before he started the project, AHHH!! I knew he was going to do it today but baby L (who is sick, poor baby :( ) wanted to nurse, so I took a break with him in our room and gave him "milky" for about 10 minutes. Then immediately jumped outside to start taking pictures before he started, except he had already started! I caught him before he put on the paint, but he had already taken off the hardware :( So I have a some semi-before shots.

So note to self: ALWAYS take a before shot before hubby jumps into project without you :/

Anywho, so this dresser. I LOVE it. When my husband brought it home I loved it immediately. I could see through the ugly, totally outdated brown & what it could be. It has these awesome totally unique hardware. I immediately started doing some research and read a few blog posts but my favorite one was by LiveLoveDIY. Since this was our first try at something like this I decided to basically do everything she suggested. I told my husband which chalk paint to get at Home Depot and all of the great tips she had. My husband actually paints professionally and does little DIY projects at work all the time, so I don't think he was really listening to me and just kind of did his own thing anyway, LOL.

Now to the project...

Here are my sad "before" pictures

Note to self: Make sure hubby organizes hardware better next time, or at least get the proper before picture. He had a hard time remembering where everything went after he was done! (you'll see why when you see the finished product & see how much hardware is on this thing!)

Once hubby got all of the hardware off, he started painting. Awesome thing about chalk paint is that you literally just start painting, no sanding, no priming, nada.

He did the first coat really light, he thought he would like it better if the brush strokes were more visible, but when we took a look at it we decided one more coat would look better (probably could have avoided 2 coats if he just did a thicker 1st coat).

This stuff dries FAST. Granted it was nice and sunny out, but pretty much by the time he was done painting, the dresser had already dried. Awesome! So he was able to put the drawers back in and screw all the hardware back in right away.

And voila!

This is before the hardware, looks beautiful in my opinion! And not bad for a first try ;)

See what I mean about the hardware? Gorgeous! Hubby thinks it's a little bit much though, he may tone it down a bit. We will see. Next step is to wax it and make room in our cute tiny little apartment for it. Will have to take pictures when it's completely done and we have it in its new spot!

By the way, one jar of the chalk paint was more than enough. Pretty sure hubby has some of it left over too. Will see how much wax we end up using this week :)