Malm dresser hack! and it turned out unbelievably great!

As we all know, again and again I browse craigslist... Well last week I picked up a FREE pink ikea dresser........ ;)

You can't see how pink it was in this picture, but it was a little outrageous.


So we start with primer..

We did 2 coats of primer in preparation for our grey paint.

*HUGE NOTE. Do not paint in the sun, we painted this dresser before we had the shade awning on our back porch. Well, the heat and the sun caused the paint to dry completely deformed, so the top of the dresser looks odd in the final project. Paint in the shade, do not paint in the sun.

After the primer, we did two more coats of paint. We also discovered that we didn't even need the primer if your paint already has primer in it. Waste of money, but oh well..


You gotta watch out for drips! Gabe's side of the dresser is full of drips... -_-

After we let the dresser completely dry, we measured where we wanted to put the knobs! I debated adding this hardware! But it ended up costing tooo much. Like $30 per outline. So I stuck with knobs!

There is a missing top part, above the top drawer. Hence why the dresser was free. But for right now, it's all good. Ideally I should have spaced the knobs out more, but it's okay for a dresser that cost less than $50 and is custom made!

Costs of Ikea Malm Dresser Hack:
Primer was about $10
Paint was $14.99
Knobs cost..... way too much, but added a lot of character at $21
It took a couple of days in dry time, but over all this could be a two day project.




AND MORE BEANNNNNNNNN!!!

This Evangeline at 12 weeks old!