Another Furniture Project

Enjoyed another busy weekend feeding my project obsession.  You see if
I don't complete some sort of project, I feel my weekend was wasted.       

This past weekend I decided to tackle the 3-drawer chest our neighbor gave us.  It had been sitting on the back porch for a while.

First I headed out to Lowes to pickup some stain and new knobs.  I purchased six 1.5 inch round wooden knobs and a quart of Sunbleached Rust-Oleum Wood Stain.

I went with plain wooden knobs since I planned on spray painting them green any way.

I then used my Black & Decker Mouse to sand down the existing finish.  Sadly my Mouse blew up before I could finish forcing me to finish sanding by hand.

This is what the dresser looked like after sanding.

I then applied the stain and topped it off with a coat of polyurethane.  I expected more of a gray like driftwood but ended up with more of a slate blue finish.

 Once I placed the dresser in my foyer though it actually looked good.  It picks up nicely on the color of the slate flooring in there.  The extra storage will be great and it is a handy place to lay down the mail too.