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Blue Farmhouse Style Dresser Makeover

Farmhouse style dresser makeover. Painted with a custom color Annie Sloan chalk paint mix. https://canarystreetcrafts.com/

It’s Themed Furniture Makeover Day!  Each month we get together with a group of talented bloggers and makeover a piece of furniture according to a specific theme.  This month our theme is “Farmhouse”, and we decided to paint this old dresser with a pretty blue farmhouse vibe.

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I pulled this dresser out of our stash.  The drawers needed a little work, but other than that it was in great shape.  

BEFORE Farmhouse style dresser makeover. Painted with a custom color Annie Sloan chalk paint mix. https://canarystreetcrafts.com/

I started by giving the entire piece a quick sanding.  It had a shiny finish that I suspected might not take paint well.  I didn’t spend a lot of time sanding or trying to remove the entire finish.  The goal was to remove some of that shine and rough it up a little to give the paint something to stick to.  I have several power sanders but this one is my favorite.  

I created a custom color mix for this piece with Annie Sloan chalk paint.  I poured about a cup of Pure White into a jar, then added Duck Egg Blue a little at a time until it was the color I wanted.  (I save old spaghetti sauce and jelly jars just for this purpose).  

I painted two coats of the custom color mix, then decided to do a light white wash over the whole piece using Pure White.  To do the wash, I followed the instructions in this post.  I left a lot of the white paint in the details around the drawers.  

Farmhouse style dresser makeover. Painted with a custom color Annie Sloan chalk paint mix. https://canarystreetcrafts.com/

Next, I lightly distressed the piece with a sanding block.  I really like these sanding blocks because it’s easy to hold and much easier to control the level of distressing compared to a power sander. 

I sealed the piece with a Water Based Top Coat.  The new pulls and knobs are from Hobby Lobby.

Farmhouse style dresser makeover. Painted with a custom color Annie Sloan chalk paint mix. https://canarystreetcrafts.com/

Farmhouse style dresser makeover. Painted with a custom color Annie Sloan chalk paint mix. https://canarystreetcrafts.com/

Ready to see what my friends came up with for their farmhouse style furniture makeovers?  Check out their projects below and click on the pictures to see the full tutorials.  

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Comments

  12. Lucy @ Patina Paradise says

    It doesn’t even look like the same dresser with the new color and drawer pulls. Gorgeous!

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  15. Karen Marie Kedzuch says

    Amy,
    You have created a beautiful transformation with this dresser. My childhood dresser was a hand me down antique which was very similar. I took me down memory road for a minute.
    Happy Creating,
    Karen Marie

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