Green Dresser

 I bought this dresser the summer I moved into my first apartment out of college housing. It was a standard rainy saturday and I was garage sale-ing with my then-boyfriend who had a giant truck. Having just returned from three quarters at Southern Oregon University and having still not gained my strength back from my severely broken left arm I was stoked to have someone to help me furnish my small bedroom. The back of this poor dresser was sticking halfway out from under the car-port and was a little wet but I paid the guy like $10 for it and watched my then-boyfriend load and unload it into my apartment where it sat for two years. That boyfriend moved out of the picture and this dresser moved through two apartments with myself and my current boyfriend before moving with us into our wooden home and being relegated to the guest room. Until now.
This tallboy just got a shot of Behr- Chlorophyl inspired by Yellow Brick Home's entry wall, I didn't get a paint chip, sample or even think about it for more than the time between when I got the wild hair to paint it (at work, where all of my best diy ideas are hatched) and the time I got to Home Depot- I just painted. It felt goooood. We had been renting our spare room to a friend and he had finished moving his crap out a couple of days prior when the thought occurred to me that I prefer the tallboy to our low-n-long free, boring dresser. I was able to take over the spare bedroom for some warm, not-garage painting!

Before

During

After

M was skeptical when I told him what I was doing but even he said he loves it! I primed with Killz Fresh Start Low VOC that I had on hand, slapped on a couple of coats over two days of the green paint which I got a small can of, overall a cheap diy, I'll eventually replace the hardware.  This also serves as a little teaser if you look behind the dresser in that last picture ;)