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Transform an old chest of drawers into a modern painted masterpiece with this super easy upcycle
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ound a second-hand chest of drawers in need of a little TLC? Now it’s time for the fun part! Get sanding, filling and priming, and be creative with paint for a purse-happy makeover. Combine candy pink with a hand-painted monochrome confetti effect to give it a bold, graphic look, and swap the plain handles with leather tab pulls. The result? Instagram-worthy storage.
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Use a well-ventilated workspace and cover the floor and surrounding surfaces before you start. Remove all the old hardware from the furniture. Spray the surface with sugar soap and leave for around a minute to lift any dirt and grime on the surface. Wipe with a lightly dampened cloth. Wearing a mask and gloves, sand the surface in the direction of the grain with a medium sanding block or sandpaper that’s around 120 grit. Sand every area that will be painted. With the brush attachment on the vacuum cleaner, vacuum the dust from sanding the piece. Clean the area you’re painting in as well. With a tack cloth, remove any leftover dust from sanding. Fill the holes left by the old handles using wood filler and a scraper. Use the corner of the scraper to push some wood filler into the hole. With a small amount of wood filler on the scraper, scrape along the surface of the hole to make sure it’s flush with the rest of the drawer surface. Repeat this step for any other holes left on the original hardware. Using painter’s tape, mark off any areas you don’t want to get paint on, such as
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to a brush for the legs if required. Apply two coats of paint. After the second coat, remove the painter’s tape immediately and leave to fully dry. While the pink paint is drying, paint the black confetti detail onto the white section. With a flat artist’s brush, paint black strokes of roughly the same length in different directions, using the main image as a guide. Cut the leather into 2.5 x 10cm strips – you’ll need one to replace each of the original handles. With a pair of scissors, round off all the corners. Fold the leather with the top part folding over the end, as shown, and punch the leather where it overlaps, adding a gold eyelet to hold it in place. Using a pencil, lightly mark the placement of the new handles on the drawers. With a screwdriver, add a screw to attach each handle firmly in place.
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