Dresser Rehab

One of my projects for the summer is to redecorate Tal's room. He has picked Star Wars for a theme and his favorite color is red. After some online shopping, I think I have a plan worked out. The first step was to rehab his old dresser. It's actually a dresser that my mom had when she was a girl that I had stripped and painted for Abi before she was born. As we didn't know whether she was a boy or girl before birth we decorated her nursery in Winnie the Pooh and so the dresser was a turquoise blue and sunshine yellow. I've been following Kimba at http://asoftplacetoland-kimba.blogspot.com/ for a few months with all of her furniture rehabs and love of spray paint and caught the bug. My friend Becca is also a great inspiration with her creativity and style, everything she touches turns out sooo cute. So I took the plunge.I washed the whole dresser down with TSP substitute and then sanded it with my handheld electric sander. I had to to a little hand sanding but it was mostly just to rough up the finish to help the primer stick. Then I primed it with Rustoleum primer from Home Depot. The doors and drawers are sprayed with Rustoleum's Colonial Red in Satin. The white is Valspar from Lowes. I love how it turned out so crisp and clean. We added new pulls and hinges and it's almost like new. In fact, my dad thought is was. Nope, I just painted the old one. I love that it's oil based so it dries harder than when I hand painted with a latex paint. I'll post more pics of the room when I'm done.