Last weekend I finished painting Alethea’s big girl room dresser.  Today, I finally took pictures of it.  (I think keeping up with the pictures are the hardest part of blogging for me.)

Here is the dresser before, when it was in the nursery (very cute, but not right for a Moroccan Princess):

First I sanded it.  Then I applied two coats of brown latex wall paint:

After that I applied two more coats of paint, this time in a Sherwin Williams floor and porch enamel, color name ‘Lagoon’:

After the paint dried, my plan was to strategically sand back the Lagoon color to expose the brown underneath, giving the dresser a vintage/distressed look.  Only problem was, after I spent about five minutes with a 200 grit sandpaper working on one of the drawers, all I’d accomplished was scuffing up the finish of the enamel, no brown coming through whatsoever.  The guy at Sherwin Williams sure wasn’t joking when he told me this product would be more durable for a kids dresser than a latex wall paint!

On to plan B…

Instead of sanding back the Lagoon, I just took a bit more of my brown paint and dry brushed over the enamel, thus achieving the look I was going for:

And finally, here’s the finished dresser:

I’m very happy with the results, but I’m thinking crystal knobs would make it look even cooler.  Part of me thinks, ‘the current knobs are okay, why waste money on new ones?’, but the other part says, ‘what little girl wouldn’t love ‘diamond’ drawer pulls?’  Which part will win?  Only time will tell.