I am redoing a bathroom & want to paint an old dresser to use as a base for a white vessel sink. The dresser has an oval mirror mounted by posts on the side of the dresser. Bathroom will be white wainscote with light country green above it & dark red as accent color. Any suggestions on what to do with the dresser? Thank you!
Additional question - not real familiar with antiquing furniture. If I painted the dresser white is there a way to antique it either with dark red or green, or am I way off base?
that'd honestly be my first choice but the dresser has a birdseye maple veneer which has peeled off one drawer. I will have to peel off the rest of that drawer & put another venner on before painting but doubt I'd match it well enough to leave wood. But thanks for the input!
wow! that is simply an awesome idea! (i will, of course, be stealing it)
i love people that think outside the box....
if your scotting is white, i'd go with white.
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I thought about that, was worried about too much white. Thought about maybe painting just the top of the dresser a color, maybe the wall color, to break it up a bit. Although maybe by the time I set accessories on it (in the dark red - soap pump, toothbrush holder,etc) that would be enough to break it up?
if there is trim, do that in accent colors. personally, i'm going to use an epoxy coating on the top to waterproof it, and the sink is going to set in flush, not a vessel type. i'll do the top something like this, though a different color. Po) http://www.daichcoatings.com/Design Ideas Images/pages/Project47_jpg.htm
oh, nice!!! I'd thought about ceramic tile but because the dresser is curved in front decided that'd be more than I wanted to deal with!! This is a great alternative - thanks!
yes, I did - googled it to get some other angles. You can make it look just like stone countertop! I found a dealer in my area, will pick up some brochures on it. Thank you!
Same to you - curious to see how it comes out. After a busy day at Lowes & antique hunting I have decided to put in a claw foot tub, and have found both a commode (dry sink) & a unique dresser, either of which would be perfect & need no painting or refinnishing. I just have to make a decision!! The dresser is kind of unusual, 2 different woods & has a very nice mirror, so I'm leaning in that direction. I need to do before & after pictures, although I have already stripped wallpaper so it's not exactly before. Found a very strange tree stenciled on one wall with it's branches going around the corner......a bit odd!!!
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