The Battleship

A couple of weeks ago, Maya and I were driving by our Salvation Army thrift shop.  I had every intention of  shooting right past, I REALLY did.  Then I saw the sign ~ 50% all furniture!  Seriously, how could I not?  Am I ever glad I did, because this beauty was hiding in the middle of the other pieces~

We had to drive home with the back hatch of the Blazer flipping up and down because we couldn't close it all the way, due to our latest find.  It was just a tad bit breezy!

                                    The top of the dresser had two chunks missing from the top~

                                 I used my Kwik Wood epoxy putty.  This stuff is pretty amazing!

                                 When it dried, I sanded it down until it was even with the surface. 

After a few coats of primer, the damaged places are completely undetectable!  Yea!

All five of the drawers were missing the drawer slides, so my husband spent three hours on Monday fixing them for me.  Here are the fancy new tracks~

 He had to add a strip of wood to the bottom of the drawer before screwing in the top slide because the drawer was just too thin. 

                                              Most of the drawer stoppers were missing, too. 

                                 Easy fix~ he just placed screws in the same spot and it worked great!

The dresser was solid wood, but it had a thin layer of fake looking wood over the top.  Since it was a bit slick, even after I sanded, I thought I'd better pull out my heavy duty primer~

Psst... do you see the Blazer in the background?  I actually get to park IN the garage this week!  Just in time for the snowstorm.  It's short-lived, though, because my husband ~ and his truck ~ will be home from his trip tomorrow.  :)  Gotta store that furniture somewhere, right?



A while back I found a quart of dark gray oops paint at Lowe's called "Winter Flannel."  I wanted the gray to be a bit lighter, so I added in a white sampler from Lowe's. 

How do you like my professional mixing station?  :)

After giving the dresser two coats of gray it looked a little boring.

My husband came home from work and said, "I'm interested to see how the battleship turns out."  That's code for, "Are you sure you know what you're doing?"  :)

After some distressing, I grabbed my #0000 steel wool and ran it over the whole dresser along the grain of the wood. 

It leaves a gorgeous faint gray glazed look and adds another layer of dimension~

I used RL glaze in black, to add a little more to the steel wool effect.

The inside of the drawers got a couple coats of the gray, and then were lined with this fabric from Hobby Lobby~

To adhere the fabric to the drawer I used this spray adhesive~

Details of how to in this post here.

I didn't have enough spray adhesive to finish the last two drawers, so I used my fabric Mod Podge on them.

Fabric Mod Podge "how to" found in this post.

The hardware was primed and sprayed black~

I mixed a tiny bit of clear glaze with the gray paint and lightly glazed the hardware so they didn't look quite so fresh and new.

I love these little knobs from Lowe's.

For the finish, I just wiped on two coats of this~

So here we have the before~

and the after~

I think the "Battleship" turned out pretty well!  :)