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The Dresser

After five years of having this dresser, I finally decided to paint it. Part of this was in part to watching other friends DIY's and realizing that I could make the dresser whatever fun color I wanted. The other part was due to realizing that I don't have to wait for this perfect future date to do all the things I actually want to do, I can do them now! I told Sammy that I wanted him to help me paint it as a birthday present. 
I forgot to take official before photos, and for some reason I had this so this will have to do. 

We painted on a Friday that Sammy had off work. I had sanded everything during the week and moved everything so that as soon as Aaron went down for his nap, we could get started painting. I quickly learned that Sammy has never done any home improvement because he got dressed in an outfit that he really liked. I told him he'd get paint on it, but he didn't believe me. There are sometimes where you just have to let people touch the hot stove to learn that it's hot ;) 

My brother stopped by in the middle of us painting which was nice to chat and get his opinion on a few things.

We got the first coat of paint on and Sammy told me that he wasn't sure about the color. It looked like this. 

We waited an hour and a half but by then Aaron was awake so I did the second coat all by myself. When I finished it was this color. 

We went out and ran errands for the rest of the day, and came back to this beauty. We absolutely love it. It makes our home feel so much brighter and the color just makes me so happy:)
Aaron approves of it too:) 





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