I very much loved my solid oak, dovetail-crafted antique dresser, which I'd moved around from cabin to house to apartment since the early 1990s. I had to give it up as my fiance and I negotiated his move into my smallish two-bedroom apartment. I got to keep my couch and loveseat while his went to a quick and savvy Craigslist buyer. In return, practicality reigned and he brought over his much bigger dresser that we'd share.
The light pine, California Mission style with iron detailing on the heavy mirror wasn't in my line of thinking. Not that it was bad, mind you, but really, quite irrelevant to my taste. Plus, we're starting this new life together, and I wanted to integrate it into the rest of my decor.
So I painted it over with some leftover kitchen high-gloss enamel, and found myself at Anthropologie (yet again!) fondling the arty knobs, and having an actual place to put them. I painted over the iron foliage detail on the top of the mirror with some green acrylic. The result is a less formal, more beachy version of the dresser -- with room for everything!
Cost: $125 for knobs (but you can find them cheaper online at places like D. Lawless Hardware).
Paint: About $15 for a gallon of satin
Extra: $5 for the adorable 8-year-old neighbor girl who insists on helping and adds valuable design advice ("you could put flower knobs on your side, dragon knobs on his side, and share the middle drawer.")
Ooooh. Love.
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