Updated Vintage 50s Mid Century Dresser ...

These vintage mid century modern dressers from the 

early 1950s are my favorite mcms to update.

This particular one was a customers choice order.

Her daughter picked the color and hardware.

We repaired all the scratches and missing/loose veneer.

Sealed in the older hardware holes.

Then sanded it down.

Made the new hardware holes.

Primed it, then painted it all in Benjamin Moore plain white.

Sealed in a stain finish.

Added the new white modern hardware.

The before and after is why I love my job!

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Mid Century Modern Desk...

I think some mid century pieces really can stand out

on their own with no paint.  This particular one I felt wasn't one 

of those pieces.  

Which is why I decided to paint it.

I wanted a two tone look and with this design

it had a few ideas on how I could do that.

I stained the top trim, drawers, and legs in cappuccino. 

Painted the body in black.  Added new modern black knobs.

Painted the metal tips on the legs in black.

Sealed everything in a matte finish.

Not many desks have backs that can be painted.

This one did, so I painted the back also.

It gives an option of using it with the back facing out.

Before and after!  

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Mid Century Dresser

I forgot to take a before photo of this.  I don't know why but,

it completely slipped my mind.  I thought I did, so you can 

imagine how frustrated I was when I didn't find it in my photo roll.

Anyway, this is vintage form the late 1970s in a mid century

style.  We repaired all the missing chipped veneer.

Which was mostly on the bottom edges.  more so on the right edges than left. 

Stripped everything down.

Here is where you can see the filling in on veneer.  

We had to add a ton of filler.  But we built it back up to 

make the side even.

Painted the body a light gray and stained the wood 

slats in cappuccino. 

Sealed everything in a matte finish.

I so wish I had taken a before!  Oh well either way it looks

so much better!

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Mid Century Modern West Elm Style...

Love these styles of mid century dressers!  

Although, most of them have formica tops.  

I could refinish like restore in a dark walnut stain

even with formica tops, but this one was too damaged.

The original finish didn't strip properly.

We went over it 3 times with stripper.  Then sanded it.

Looks good on the picture below all stripped and prepped.

But once stained it would've looked blotchy.

I don't like when stained pieces look blotchy.

Blotchy is an uneven look once stained.  

You usually get that from not stripping or sanding properly.  

Either you sanded too rough or too light.   You have to have a 

gentle touch when sanded to restore.

This one wasn't having it. 

I was throwing around tons of ideas on how to design it.

I finally (at the last minute!) deciding on stained drawers

with the rest painted.

I painted it black with dark walnut stained drawers.

The drawers stripped good and I couldn't let that 

beautiful wood grain go to waste.

Sealed everything is a matte finish.

Added new modern matte black pulls.

The transformation from before is outstanding!

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