In an Hour: Insert House Number Drawer Pulls
Give your dresser a dose of road style by replacing run-of-the-mill drawer pulls with sleek, modern house numbers.
In an Hour: Insert: Building-Block Drawer Pulls
Sick of stepping on the tiny knives that are building blocks? Immobilize a few as lively, daring drawer pulls.
Within a Hour: Customize Drawers With Decals
HGTV Magazine has an ideal dresser dress-up for dorm dwellers or indecisive decorators: easy-stick contact paper. Cut out a blueprint with a paper punch, or find a stylish pattern to pay the whole drawer front. When you are ready for a change, these designs peel off without leaving gunky residue.
Within an Hour: Utilize the Drawers
Not convinced your dresser is worth salvaging? Give the drawers an opportunity, at least. Use them to home craft supplies, your rubber-band collection or free-floating clutter.
In an Hour: Turn Drawers Into Shelves
Create artwork that doubles as storage and storage which doubles as art. Find a mini dresser and a few old black-and-white snapshots. Mount the drawers on the wall and then tack a picture in every one using photo corners. Use the drawers as shelves, or hang earrings from looped pieces of cable.
Within an Hour: Gain Instant Bathroom Storage
Here, mismatched classic dresser drawers store the scourge of bathroom counters everywhere: cosmetics and hair solutions.
In an Hour: Turn Rubber Toys Into Drawer Pulls
Kids' room jumble isn't a match for T-Rex. Make cleanup (a little) more entertaining for little hands with these toys-turned-drawer pulls. Have a bit more time? Paint the dresser reptilian green to match.
Within an Hour: Add Drawer Liners
Once you've decked out that the dresser's outside, don't forget within those drawers. Line them together with complementary shelf paper, wallpaper or contact paper.
At a Day: Insert Paint Classic Pulls
This dresser has some significant personality, no? Design on a Dime host Casey Noble made it one-of-a-kind by painting a jar leading bright yellow and adding vintage pulls.
In a Day: Wrap It Up
Wrapping paper isn't only for gifts. Here, HGTV Magazine used a floral roll to transform this simple furniture piece. A stenciled monogram sends it to the uber-preppy zone.
At a Day: Paint On Cheerful Stripes
Follow these measures from HGTV Magazine to upgrade your plain dresser with cheerful stripes. Use leftover paint from previous DIYs, or purchase affordable sample-sized containers.
In a Day: Give Your Dresser Retro Swagger
Use a patterned decal sheet and vintage-inspired knobs to make a retro-cool dresser like HGTV Magazine did here.
In a Day: Wallpaper Your Dresser
Stylish backgrounds are making a huge comeback. Not ready for all that paste? Put in a background you covet atop a fundamental modern dresser for a not-so-permanent dose of layout.
In a Day: Outline Your Dresser
Any necklace looks modern with a silhouette of bright white. Here, HGTV Magazine editors stained the drawers and added white upholstery to pull the look together.
In a Day: Add a Chevron Pattern
There is a reason chevron mania is here to stay: This pattern packs a severe visual effects. Watch for yourself by creating your own pattern on a basic flat-front dresser.
In a Day: Make a Chest of Dirt
Dressers can discover new life in the backyard. Stagger the drawers and fill with greens, herbs or small blossoms. The top is a great spot to regrow plants that are potted.
In a Day: Turn a Dresser Into a Chalkboard
A coat of chalk paint turns an eyesore to an artist's canvas. Or, for the super-organizers among us, just another way to label every single drawer. Use chalk pens to avoid smudging and dust.
At a Day: Turn a Dresser Into Open Storage
When revamping employed furniture, creativity is essential. A dresser with missing drawers might look like garbage, but when it has shelves, it may be a treasure. Give it a fresh coat of paint and you've got a whimsical bureau for your boudoir.
In a Day: Turn a Tall Dresser Into a Changing Table
A tall, simple dresser becomes a bohemian altering table with the addition of mismatched knobs along with a cheery aqua colour.
At a Weekend: Turn a Dresser Into a Vanity
That dresser stashed in the garage can have a brand new life as a retrofitted toilet vanity. Here's how to create your own.
In a Weekend: Turn a Dresser Into Open Storage
Set a fresh new twist on an old wooden vest with spacious shelving, unexpected hardware and a playful use of color.
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