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