I saw GlueSticks paint a laminate night stand cute bright blue, and got to thinking….

Andrew has an old dresser that has seen better days, it fit our bedroom well, and I wanted to test out the idea of grey dressers in our bedroom. Perfecto.

I read, GlueStick’s post, and the post she used from Centsational Girl, I also remembered this pin on Floetrol to reduce brush strokes and added it to my game plan.

The top had some water damage, so we sanded just that part smooth.

Then I wiped it down really well with a tac cloth.

Then I primered it with two coats of oil based primer. (I used Zinsser Cover Stain)

Brush Tip: Use your workbench vice to hold your paint brush while you saran wrap it between coats =)

Then the fun part, painting your color. Mine is Behr “Fashion Grey” in Satin. I mixed a little Floetrol directly into my paint cup rather than the can.

Getting a super smooth finish isn’t going to happen since sanding you have to be super careful to not loose your primer. But in my opinion the moderate brush strokes make it seem more like actual wood under there.

This post is partying here.

So I broke down and finally got a replacement bed skirt for our master bedroom. I cheaped out and got a Microfiber cream box style one from Wal-mart not thinking about the black cat + cream microfiber = never going to look good combo.
Oh well, returning to Wal-mart if you can’t go at the oddest hour was goanna be painful and it was only $22 so I threw it on.
We have a low bed and a short height boxspring so now I had a microfiber cat hairy pooling bed skirt.

It was horrible.

Then Pinterest, entered my life.
Then pinterest showed me this lovely pin… from Ankas Treasures. She sews the whole bedskirt even.

Genius.

So back to Wally-world I went to buy the big box of Adhesive Velcro, for $18

Then I pulled out the bed skirt, cut out the silky middle fabric from the middle (saved it to use as lining). On the corners I left a triangle of the silky stuff to help keep it aligned.

Then little by little I attached the bottom to the boxspring and the top to top of the skirt and tada it was the perfect height.

So yes I spent $18 to salvage my $22 bed skirt, but hey at least the project is finally done!