Kristi May from KrisKraft scored a “dark, beat-up, ugly dresser” from the Goodwill for only $12 and turned it into a gorgeous Anthro-inspired piece for her son’s room. The transformation involved refinishing the drawer fronts in a dark walnut, painting and distressing the dresser frame, and then lightly stenciling numbers onto the drawer fronts. I [...Read More]
Dresser with Numbered Drawers
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Leslie from Sweet Sweet Simplicity turned a cheap thrift store dresser into a cool Anthro-inspired dresser with numbered drawers. Leslie totally nailed the look by using a jigsaw to change the shape of the drawers and sandpaper and stain to give the final piece a rugged, distressed look. I really love this dresser more with [...Read More]
Numbered Wood Dresser
November 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Monica and Jess from the Real Housewives of Bucks County recently went through a project whirlwind as they completed four big projects in only four weeks. They shared one of their faves at Craftaholics Anonymous, a dresser that they transformed into an Anthro-inspired masterpiece. I know we have seen this knock off a few times, [...Read More]
Numbered Media Console
October 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Years ago Amanda from Burlap & Denim had scored a chest of drawers for only $50 from an outlet that sells returned items. One of the drawers was missing, but Amanda cleverly stuck a basket in its place and no one was ever the wiser. When Amanda spied Anthro’s numbered chest of drawers, she knew [...Read More]
Numbered Bureau with Rope Pulls
August 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
With plans of giving a garage sale dresser a makeover, Mia from Jilly & Mia headed straight to her trusted friend – Google. She stumbled upon the perfect inspiration piece and got to work giving the dresser a healthy worn look with her sander and diluted paint. She stenciled on some numbers, added rope pulls, [...Read More]
Distressed Rope Pull Dresser
April 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
One of the last big projects Kim from Too Much Time on My Hands completed for her son’s vintage airplane room was this distressed dresser with rope pulls. The project involved sanding (and sanding and sanding…) her son’s original nursery dresser, stenciling on some ordinal numbers, and applying a couple coats of glaze mixed with [...Read More]
