Run all four
sides of the drawer front board through the table saw to cut the board at an angle but leave the center front flat.
Not exact matches
I cut panels for the
sides of the dresser and then for the
drawer fronts, and carefully used Mod Podge to glue them on.
The hand - welded iron frame holds
drawers on both
sides, for a table with serious presence as well as storage space — especially when used as an anchoring piece in
front of an oversized modern sofa or sectional.
Using mod podge and an old brush go ahead and decoupage the wallpaper to the
front of the
drawer, as well as the
drawer sides and the inner fixed shelf.
The metallic really helps capture the light on the curved center
drawer front and the floral details on the
sides of the
drawers.
Kev used a pencil and the «rub - lead - on - one -
side, then rub - lead - onto - the other -
side» method to transfer the numbers onto the left
side of three
of the
drawer fronts.
It's been an on - going struggle the last six years to make it a working space, and just when I think I've finally conquered it, someone leaves laundry bins in
front of the craft shelves, causing the crafts to pile up on the
side table, preventing us from finding the things we need in the stationary
drawers, and sewing bins pile up beneath that.
Casey from DIY Playbook kept the
front of her
drawers intact, but added a touch
of wallpaper to the
sides of each individual
drawer.
Made up
of interlocking wedge - shaped elements called pins and tails, the joint connects
drawer fronts,
sides, and backs, designed to withstand the daily pulling forces you apply when you open a
drawer, for problem - free use.
I lightly distressed the dresser (mainly along the edges) and used a bit
of dark wax on the Old White portion and intermittently on the top,
sides and
drawer fronts — enough to give it an aged look but not make it too dark.
(because we are attaching a shaker style frame on the
front of the
drawers to match the armoire, see below) Once the face frame was up we filled in the gaps on the
side to create a shaker style panel, especially on the two
sides.
We installed the
sides and face frame being careful to keep the face frame out about 1/4
of an inch from the
front of the
drawers.
Nanette refinished a
side table using Botanical Mulberry and one
of our European Aged Papers on the
drawer front --
Drill pocket holes for 1/2 ″ material on the outside
front of the
drawer sides (remember the
front of your
drawer is only about 3/8 ″ -1 / 2 ″ thick because
of the decorative cuts).
we even recreated the wainscoting to match the original (5 ft
of t & g with a picture ledge) and the built in dressers are the same as the original as well, only they were glass
front cabinets on either
side of the window seat rather than
drawers.