Easy and Quick Dresser Redo

Sometimes all you need to spice up any particular piece of furniture is paint. Check out my easy and quick dresser redo.

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Before

This is the best “before” picture I could find at the moment. I know I have better ones, but I’m currently in the middle of transferring a lot of my work from my laptop to my new desktop.

With that said, if you look at the bottom of this picture, you’ll see that the dresser was a dark blue. I actually thought I was buying black paint, considering the paint color had “black” in its name. But anyway. You’ll notice the top isn’t painted. That’s kind of how I do things sometimes…. halfway. It’s not always something I want to admit, but it’s the truth sometimes. Anyway, this is what it looked like when I started repainting it a few days ago.

Supplies Needed

Paint brush
Foam roller
Bonding Primer (for extra durability)
Paint (Behr Premium Paint and Primer in One is my favorite. You can find it at Home Depot)
Screw driver (to remove hardware)
New hardware (if applicable)

The Process

This dresser is wood, so most of it I just painted. However, the top is laminate so I decided to use a bonding primer first, just to be sure that it stuck and was durable.

Otherwise, I remove the drawers and hardware, wipe down surfaces and PAINT.

This dresser took 3 coats on the drawers to cover the dark blue. The body took 2 coats with the foam roller and the top took 1 primer coat, 2 paint coats.