Design Sponge At Home: Dresser Makeover

Stylelist Home/The Huffington Post | By Grace Bonney | Become a fan | Posted: 09/19/11 01:15 PM ET | Updated: 09/20/11 01:06 PM ET

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Well-known for their rustic furniture makeovers, Brooklyn-based designers Nadia Yaron and Myriah Scruggs, of Nightwood, decided to transform this vintage sideboard into a chic, modern piece. Using salvaged pieces of oak, chestnut, pine, and walnut (all purchased for under $10), Nadia and Myriah designed a unit that was “casual and rustic while still having a touch of elegance.”

[Editor's note: Want to create your own mosaic-front dresser using salvaged scraps of wood? Just use Liquid Nails adhesive to bond the wood to the dresser.]

Excerpt from "Design Sponge At Home" by Grace Bonney, published by Artisan Books

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sunflower909

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08:22 AM on 09/22/2011

The makeover looks horrible! Should have left it the way it was!!

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christitenn

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01:58 AM on 09/22/2011

What the bleep?? I toggled back and forth between the photos in confusion...I thought they had mis-labeled. I'd take the before look over the after any day.

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rosasturtles1

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09:49 PM on 09/21/2011

s*** ugly....

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Lilybelle

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08:39 PM on 09/21/2011

The "before" piece had a lot of potential with a bit of sanding and some new stain and hardware. That "after" piece is laughable - they should be ashamed to show it to anybody. I guess it is one of those chi-chi things that people will pay thousands for something ugly just because it came from a designer. They should be ashamed. Reminds me of the Emperor's New Clothes.

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Melissa Rhodes

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08:33 PM on 09/21/2011

The after photo looks like crap. Painting it ANY color and changing the hardware would be a better alternative. Ausscyn and Kfidei have great ideas.

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jojowhite320

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08:20 PM on 09/21/2011

So sorry, I don t think it will catch on. And you won't have to worry. It looks unfinished for sure. A nice can of paint would have done wonders when it was just plain white in whatever color suits you.

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sclarkeatt

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07:32 PM on 09/21/2011

seriously? does anyone out there like the after? I hope it doesn't catch on. I vote for the before.

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kfidei

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07:32 PM on 09/21/2011

Sorry, but this is hideous... the style of this dresser is not in sync with the optimistically termed "rustic" makeover. If I were going to use this dresser in a more rustic setting, I would have painted it spruce green or marine blue in a matte, milk paint type finish, with hand made twig or antique hardware

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ausscyn

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02:42 PM on 09/21/2011

That would have looked better spray painted silver & then antiqued w/black.

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04:07 PM on 09/21/2011

Ausscyn; they would have done better using your idea! I saw the finished makeover and thought it was in mid redo.

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Paul Davenport

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05:54 AM on 09/21/2011

cool classic creative so...new culture!

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