Last weekend was perfect. Mother’s Day was lovely – Michael and the girls surprised me with a necklace I’ve been eying for a while and a gorgeous bunch of peonies.
The arrangement was so pretty that I thought it was a good excuse to break out the camera and take some ‘after shots’ of my kitchen island that I’ve been meaning to share with you.
This old dresser was one of the very first things Michael and I bought as a married couple. We got it for almost nothing at a thrift store in Arizona. It’s been about 20 different colors over the years and the hardware’s changed a half dozen times. The top hutch piece was some I picked up a few years later at the Crate and Barrel outlet.
I got a piece of very inexpensive chipboard cut to size at Home Depot, and stapled and nailed it in place. Then I primed and painted the whole thing in BEHR’s Night Shade (it looks navy in the picture, but it actually has a lot of green in it).
The new paint helped the situation a lot. I knew I wanted to add moulding or something though to make the flat back more exciting. It’s one of the first things you see from our front door, so it was important for the detail to be sort of punchy and fun. I liked this paint treatment from House and Home and thought it would be a cinch to do something similar:
After doing a little sketch and planning out my measurements, I taped off all the straight lines.
OH I absolutely love it! The white paint detail was brilliant (instead of actually buying trim pieces). The result is stunning!
OH MY!!!!!!!! Wow! You just got it totally right- the shade of navy, the design for the island, the color of the peonies, the vase that the peonies is in and the gorgeous rug (where did you find it?). I'm sooo impressed. You are def one of my 4 favorite design blogs out there. You have a great eye!
This looks gorgeous! I have been trying to figure out how to get an island in my kitchen. This gave me lots of ideas! Thanks!
What a FAB job you did! Sentimental turned out wonderful! (and great find on the marble top!)
Your island looks so nice! I recently took out some cabinets from the middle of our kitchen and replaced it with a dresser too! It's funny how different both of our are – but both so neat! Here's the link to mine – http://happenstanceathome.blogspot.com/2011/03/breathing-new-life-into-our-20-year-old.html
You have so many great projects!
Insanely gorgeous!
Love this idea. I have a kitchen that seems like it would be too small for an island but a longer skinny dresser may do the trick. Also thanks for the tip about sealing the tape with the base color, genius!
I love this dresser makeover! I've included it in my roundup of 12 ways to repurpose a dresser.
http://www.addicted2decorating.com/twelve-ways-to-repurpose-a-dresser-dresser-transformations.html
Thanks for the inspiration!!