Plastic Drawers

So I am back with another little project. This one mostly happened because of the homework I was avoiding and being really bored over the weekend. 

Every one has them, those plastic see through drawers. They are so ugly, at least I think so. That is why I decided to make my old plastic drawers from my days of living in a dorm room into a printing station. My printer is currently sitting on the floor, so this is a much needed thing. 

So these are the what the drawers looked like before. They aren't terrible, but they match absolutely nothing. Plus I don't really like the see through aspect of them. 

First I took the pieces apart and gave them a good cleaning and let them dry.

I painted the inside of the drawers a different shade of pink.

I put a few coats on the inside until it was opaque.

Then it was time for the outside I chose a metallic paint for the drawer holder (for lack of better words) and a shiny white paint for the outside of the actual drawers. 

I did a few thin layers of paint so that there wasn't any running.

And because I am an impatient girl the paint was running on the front of the drawers

Lucky for me I have some old lace from a 1950s wedding dress hanging out in my craft box.

I laid that over the front of the drawer and used the same metallic spray paint that I used for the outside of the plastic drawers.

Then I pulled off the lace and let it dry.

I also got super excited about this lace thing and how easy it was so while I was waiting for the drawers to dry I decided to paint lace onto my vintage piano bench. 

I also happen to have alphabet stickers laying around, so I labeled each drawer with them. 

LOOK AT THESE LABELING SKILLS. 

This is the same drawer you can just see the metallic- ness better in this photo.

And here they are all done and labeled. 

Thanks for reading about my attempt to make a somewhat attractive printer station.

~ Until Next Time ~

Chynna

DIY Drawer Pulls

(sorry about the mess)

So I have been re-doing this dresser for a long time now. I will eventually write about this dressers start, but I finally have drawer pulls for it that I made today, so this project is what I am currently the most excited about. So my huge dresser I got apparently had some strange sized pulls on them which made it impossible for me to find some to fit, so I had to get creative. One day I found some really cool old plastic chandelier crystals and a light bulb went off in my head. I decided that they would be perfect  drawer pulls. So this is where the fun began. 

To officially make these plastic crystals into pulls, I also bought some little plastic knobs to attach them to the drawer. 

So these are the crystals and the little knobs.

 The first thing that I did was put two knobs on the front of my drawer so that the spacing would be correct. 

Next I got out my high-temp hot glue gun.

Notice the drop cloth under everything.

 With that hot glue gun I pulled the trigger three times in the center of each knob to get a glob of glue on there. 

After the glue was successfully on the knobs, I pressed the plastic crystals onto the hot glue. I let the glue dry for about a minute.

Once the glue was all dried I removed my new drawer handle from the front of the drawer.

In order to keep the pulls standing up I put a magazine onto of my drop cloth so that there was something stiffer to keep them on.

Once my knobs were on the drop cloth I was ready to paint.

My new favorite thing to help me spray paint is this cool spray paint trigger thing that I got from the local hardware store. 

I gave the knobs a nice coat of spray paint and let them dry for about ten or so minutes. A lot of times I start getting impatient, so it would probably be better to let them dry a little bit longer.

Here are what my drawer-pulls looked like when finished. 

              

Now you are ready to re-attach your new drawer pulls!

I got super excited and immediately put all of the drawers back into my dresser, I am so excited to finally have pulls on my dresser finally! It might actually inspire me to organize the inside!

I hope you enjoyed reading about my weird way of coming up with putting new drawer knobs onto my dresser! Thanks for reading!

~Until Next Time~

Chynna