{"id":19931,"date":"2013-09-15T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2015-08-25T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:56:33","slug":"updating-a-piece-of-furniture-without-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=19931","title":{"rendered":"Updating a Piece of Furniture Without Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know by now that I love painting furniture. \u00a0It is a way to give a tired piece an updated look. \u00a0While I usually don’t pause one little bit when it comes to painting furniture, but I paused big time with this piece.<\/h3>\n

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\"Ethan<\/p>\n

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This Ethan Allen dresser was in my bedroom when I was growing up in Kentucky. \u00a0When Yankee and I moved to upstate New York to our first house, my parents brought a truck load of furniture that they were ready to pass on since they were downsizing. \u00a0I got my whole bedroom set which included this dresser, an Ethan Allen desk and an Ethan Allen bed.\u00a0 They are all beautiful but just not my style at this time.<\/h3>\n

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This dresser and a desk were in our bedroom and I was using the desk as a vanity. \u00a0I have not been happy with our bedroom for some time, and I think it was because everything was matchy, matchy. \u00a0I moved the desk to a guest room and moved the dresser to the the wall where the desk used to be. Now we have a blank wall for a sitting area. This has yet to happen as I am deciding what will work best for the area.<\/h3>\n

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This dresser was still not my cup of tea and I wanted to update it.<\/h3>\n

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\"Pulls<\/a><\/p>\n

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To update the dresser, I put into play these great pulls<\/a>. \u00a0I ordered them from Home Depot<\/a> and couldn’t wait for their arrival.<\/h3>\n

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\"Ethan<\/p>\n

The first thing I did was to start to remove the old handles. \u00a0You can see they left a little bit of the pattern. \u00a0 Some were not as bad as others, but once I put the new handles on the dresser, I could not tell it was not the original pull.<\/h3>\n

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\"New<\/p>\n

One pull down and I was shocked at the difference.<\/h3>\n

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\"New<\/p>\n

This is a good way to see the difference.<\/h3>\n

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\"Updating<\/p>\n

There you go.\u00a0 This is how it looks after the new pulls were all put on. \u00a0I love it. \u00a0It is so much better.<\/h3>\n

\"Update<\/h3>\n

\u00a0Next up, I want to get rid of this mirror and hang a more modern mirror on the wall. It will be much less matchy, matchy. Stay tuned.<\/h3>\n

Update: \u00a0Want to see the dresser with a new mirror? \u00a0Click here<\/a> for the post, it is amazing how the look changes even more.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cheers!<\/h3>\n

linking to Between Naps on the Porch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know by now that I love painting furniture. \u00a0It is a way to give a tired piece an updated look. \u00a0While I usually don’t pause one little bit when it comes to painting furniture, but I paused big time with this piece.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28521,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/28521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}