Friday, April 01, 2011

Rast Turned Sideboard


Materials: Rast Dressers, paint, wood stain, wood filler, drawer handles, drill

Description:

-Two Ikea Rast dressers
-Wood measured to build two shelves
-Two 6"x1"x12' pieces of wood - the surface piece cut in half and stained
-Wood filler to fill in the drawer knob holes
-A quart of hi-gloss Martha Stewart paint in Seal (used two coats)
-Six new drawer handles from Home Depot (you will need to drill new holes for the handles)


~ Nadia Shen, Brooklyn

10 comments:

  1. Love it. Great surface and storage solution.

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  2. beautiful! Love the color of the wood piece on top.

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  3. Great! The solid wood on the top makes a big difference!

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  5. Love this dresser! i think it would look so awesome too if they painted the top piece of wood a bright color, like mint green! :)

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  6. how did you mount the shelves? brackets?

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  7. I love this we are going to do it in a pop way for our daughters room. It's solved a bit of a quandry!

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  8. WOW, this is gorgeous! Could you tell me which colour stain you used? I would love to use it on my coffee table.

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