Decor and After

I have this piece in my house.... ok I have several....but this piece of furniture has been my favorite redo project to date. I love a good redo project, re-purposed furniture just has more character. For me, adding a personal touch to pieces in your house is what makes a house a home. I love taking a standard piece of furniture and rethinking its function, its purpose and its style. A Queen Ann chair painted a bright color is suddenly modern, over sized coffee table books staked are a side table, a dresser up-cycled into a bar.

A serpentine dresser my grandmother bought at a consignment store. Not very old, not remarkably made, painted a dozen times, but there is just something about it. The wavy front, the plethora of drawers, the perfect height, the details carved in the wood and the the cute little feet. When my grandmother was moving I had just had my second baby and needed a dresser to double as a changing table. It was the perfect height so I took it. I painted it white  because shabby chic was still in. Five years later my third baby was born and the plethora of drawers fit both of the girls clothes in their shared room. Fast forward five more years and now the girls have out grown this piece. I am not sentimentally attached to this dresser but I couldn't bear the thought of letting it go! Ugh, I thought hard about where to move it...too big for my room, too feminine for my sons room, didn't need a new TV console, didn't want to store it in the garage....And then the door on my existing bar in the dining room broke and it was like a light bulb went off in my head...the serpentine dresser would be an awesome bar!

My style is pretty eclectic but I knew I didn't want a shabby chic clothing dresser in the dining room. It needed to be made to look more modern. So like all good DIYer's do, I searched for inspiration on Pinterest. I saw several ideas I liked but by far my favorite was a two tone half painted, half stained dresser. I ordered paint stripper on Amazon right away. After lots of stripping, sanding, repainting, attaching new hardware and organizing, I had a new bar!