Furniture Facelift: Jamie’s Media Stand

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Being someone who has a hard time with media selection and pretty much all things living room, when I saw Jamie’s dresser turned media stand I had to share. Here’s her letter:

“This was a dresser my mother bought ~10 yrs before I was born so prob between ’74 and ’78 somewhere.  Bought it off of a neighbor who was moving for $10.  No clue how old it is, where it came from, the brand or any of those shenanigans.  Not even sure how she used it until I came along but it’s held a plethora of different elements of my stuff in it since ’85.  Now that it holds up my tv it stores – go ahead and laugh here – my old vcr and TONS of VHS’ that I am kind of hoarding, but at least they’re home videos of old school plays and stuff…. mostly haha.  I may or may not have recorded some (read: several) episodes of Dawson’s Creek and kept it… shhh.  Clearly I didn’t take great care of the dresser through the teen years so I decided it was time to make up for many years of mistreatment.  Poor thing needed some serious love.
I did most of the sanding in my back alley. I spent 3 hours sanding it (electric hand-held sander by Black & Decker) on a lovely 107 degree day (not sure how many calories I burned…but I was satisfied that I at least got rid of some of those bad boys).
I used a textured, paint-able wallpaper to apply to the bottom two drawers by Allen + Roth. I painted the whole dresser, including the wallpapered drawers a lovely shade of pale blue, Valspar paint and primer in Fountain Mist. I only primed the drawer to help the wallpaper stick since I hadn’t ever used wallpaper before, but since the Valspar paint had primer in it I didn’t prime the rest. The image on the far right is Darius, my off-white ceramic owl, who wanted to help show that even though the dresser looks a little white on camera, it’s actually a very beautiful, light blue.
Here is the dresser all polished and complete. Thanks for checking it out!”
-Jamie

I love that she used not only a wallpaper to update her dresser, but a textured wallpaper. It’s such a great piece, and good wood is hard to find. Great job Jamie!

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  • Lindsey@BetterAfter

    Looks fantastic! I love the idea to use textured wallpaper, it makes the white that much more interesting.

    • http://www.compartmentlife.com Compartment LIfe

      Lindsey,
      Right! That’s what I thought, plus I don’t know about you, but I was getting a little DIY wallpapered out before I saw this project.
      -S