My current hyperfocus is renovation and anything to do with home improvements. I had a few weeks of summer holiday and I kept real busy around the house.
While the paint in the bathroom cabinets was still wet, I was already onto my next projec; restoring an old dresser. I did an exchange with my aunt by giving her a Fatboy (a fancy beanbag) I no longer needed and in turn got this dresser she has gotten from a fleamarket and painted white to suit her home at the time.
I’m not a huge fan of white furniture and I don’t think it suits our home so I decided to strip off the paint and then figure out what I want to do with it.
I first used a heat gun to get the paint nice and bubbly to scrape of as much of as I could. It took quite a while but it was very satisfying when big pieces came off at once. Some of it was really soaked into the grooves and scratches which was a bitch to try and get off.
Once I saw what was under the paint I already knew I wanted to let the wood show and just put on some sort of wood oil finish. Since I wasn’t going to paint the dresser, it took me fucking forever to sand in order to get the old white paint off. Otherwise I wasn’t too concered about getting everything perfectly smooth because I do like old wood furniture that shows it’s been used and abused and is still standing.
That’s it for sanding and oopsies, the dresser also lost its legs on a whim. It was near impossible to get off all the white and some of it was spackle so I decided to just use a random coctail of dark wood stains to cover the biggest spots.
Apparently I have no pictures from the varnishing process but I used the same combo of Osmo Colour Wood Wax in Cognac and Liberon Hard Wax Oil that I used on the bathroom wood tiles. The finish is anything but even but I actually like that because this is an old drawer and it’s definitely quite utilitarian and it will stay as such.
