I finished the antique dresser I was working on. I have the original hardware back on. Some of the hardware holes had been filled with dowels and I had to knock those out. Otherwise they went back to their original places easily.

The picture makes the dresser look too shiny but in reality it isn’t near the shiny look the picture shows. I painted some dark green over the black but left some black showing through. Then I used a crackle medium before using the colonial red paint. Then I took some water-based fumed-oak color of dye and rubbed it in to dull the red and give it a little aged look. I finished the dresser with 2 water-based satin urethane coats because my Waterlox had gelled up and could not be used. I’m excited about the extra storage I’ll have plus the additional space to display my collectibles.

My next post will show you the “mickey-moused” hardware that I found when I took off the mismatched hardware. Those old timers really had a knack for invention. (I used the “cutout” function for the pictures below because my floors aren’t refinished yet. That’s my next big project.)

Before

After