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painting a dresser for a bathroom

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#1 · (Edited)
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?
 
#2 ·
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!
 
#4 ·
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?

Steal away - I'm flattered!
 
#12 ·
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!!!

Keep me posted on your progress!
 
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