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Beautiful Dresser Makeover! [Making the most of FREE furniture!]

Have some dressers that need an upgrade? Here's how we pulled a modern and beautiful DIY dresser makeover on these two thrifted dressers!

We thrifted these dressers for FREE but they badly needed a DIY makeover

I don't know about you, but when I see that something is "FREE" I'm very tempted to bring it home with me. Very tempted. A free dresser is just asking for a DIY dresser makeover, right?!

When my husband saw these free dressers online we snagged them up immediately - not quite knowing where they would go yet. We had grand plans for a dresser makeover right away, but pregnancy, sickness and moving delayed our project a bit.

Luckily when we moved to

Lecia

Sunday 24th of May 2020

Hi Lindi, This looks great - I really love the foil inlay you've added. About that - do you know if you can add a poly topcoat over the foil? I was hoping to do this across the top of a credenza, so it would need extra protection for the finish and to keep the foil in place.

Lindi

Wednesday 27th of May 2020

I didn't do that myself, but in theory it sounds like it would work! I would just test it on the underside first and see if it worked :)

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Florence

Monday 7th of October 2019

Dear Lindi, Dear Rusell, I really love what you did with the dresser, and thank you for sharing this wonderful idea with us! I hope I will be able able to do the same with my dresser, Thanks again!

Hamilton Billiards

Monday 20th of May 2019

What a great transformation! The dresser looks stunning. Thanks for sharing! Carolina at Hamilton Billiards.