About 30 years ago I wanted a new dresser because I didn’t like the blonde finish on the one we had. New dressers were so $$$, expensive and not well made, so I decided to refinish mine. I, too, went with a walnut stain. New drawer pulls and I still love my ‘new’ dresser. Lovely job!
I'm old enough to remember when blond finish furniture was popular, even as a kid I thought they looked kind of cheap and low end. Beautiful results Emily.
Grand-tastic ! Glad u used at least one of the fun original knobs . Great to see many of you upglams light the look by changing the base to tapered legs etc God speed
@@ReconstructingEmily they were pretty cool 😎 You really didn’t even need hardware but being so big it would’ve looked naked without pulls. The ones you chose were like the perfect jewels to the ensemble. So glad you decided to leave the lone skydiver also.
Emily, that piece looked pretty bland to begin with and you managed to make it look exceptional. It’s absolutely beautiful and will be a statement piece in someone’s home. Great job on your part.
Beautiful transformation! Thank you for taking the time to list all your tools/products. It helps me find things easier to add to my arsenal when working on furniture. 👍
I love the new veneer! It completely transformed the look, and it matched the top so nicely. The refurbished dresser is just beautiful, and I love the rich tone of the wood. I wasn’t a fan of the old hardware, and I’m glad you decided to paint the piece you kept black to match the new pulls. The black plastic one was nice, but it looked a little shabby with the interesting hexagonal pulls that you chose for the small drawers.
Thank you Juan! I have used tape as well, but this was more of a 'how good are the blades test.' I think the next time I have a piece like this I am going to do tape and laminated blades. I appreciate your comment!
@@ReconstructingEmily I assume that was the case. Looking forward to your next video, I was inspired to refinish an old piece of furniture to accommodate my espresso machine. Cheers!
I remember furniture like this from my childhood. I have to say that I never realized that there was actual wood underneath there--I had guessed plastic over chipboard!
This is my first time visiting your channel, at the suggestion of Angie at Transcend Furniture Gallery. You did a really fine job with this piece. I love the natural wood grain and I bet this piece even smells good after all the TLC you gave it. Just lovely!
Mom's next-door neighbors had this set, until they retired and went full-time RV traveling. Their grandson took it outside and barely roughed it for paint to stick. He went with black, for his new house. It can be undone easily. I am sending him this video.
Wow! This was a pleasant different direction!!! I'm glad that you took this on after seeing it for 7 months. Mahogany is beautiful, even as veneer. Much better than the "frosted blonde" gunk that you painstakingly stripped and sanded, repeated and used a soft wire brush on. 😖 (Deep breath with my hair care this evening and a reminder that it's okay to be blonde and not dye darker, quit being jealous and here's the nice conditioner.) 😆🤣😂 I love the black contrast between the drawers and the hardware!
😀 Mahogany is very beautiful! I always wish they would have used the same color grain filler as the wood and not the white/yellow in the wood grains. That would make the process so much easier! Thank you!! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Firstly, freakin amazing Emily!! Well worth the wait!! Secondly how awesome to add the tiniest of Rhymes towards the end of the video. It was a welcomed treat for peeps that watch all the way through!! Hoping all is well, Dirty Jersey out!!
You did SUCH a good job with this piece! Knowing myself and if I was making this for my own home, I'd have used Bondo, done a scuff sand, and painted the piece. The extra effort you went to to remove that old finish (quite ugly, in my opinion) and bring out the beauty of the original wood is commendable!
Never liked the 'Blonde wood' look so just stripping it would have improved it BUT what you have done went way beyond that and it is now a high end looking piece of beautiful furniture 😍
I'm so glad to see a blond piece redone. I inherited many of these and that finish is not my favorite so seeing alternatives is great. I appreciate you telling what woods you thought they were made from, and really like that you explained why you chose paint for the areas that were painted. The results were pretty.
I remember as a child in the early 1960s, my parents had a whole house full of this style of blonde treated furniture. Only the drop leaf dining room table & four chairs were still in the basement of the 2nd house we moved to, after the estate sale once our parents were gone. All of it had been repainted in that billiard green popular around 1976.
I back tracked the specific order, and unfortunately Amazon isn't selling that brand / type anymore. They were the tacklife corner clamps. If I were going to buy another set, I would get these ones: amzn.to/3VSJMJr
