My first furniture piece...a cheapo Ikea dresser

My very first piece of furniture that I wanted to paint was this Ikea dresser. This was before I discovered 1/2 price days at the Thrift Store. But, regardless, I already owned this dresser so I thought I might as well work with it.

First things first...Primer. Now, I bought the Zinnser primer that says you don't have to sand before priming. I was a little hesitate about that, but it actually worked! So far it was going good. Now, I always lift my furniture up on boards to get it off the floor so you can paint all the way down easily. So when you go to get your supplies, buy a couple of boards too.

I used a cheap brush to get the crevices first, then rolled the primer on. Here is the dress fully primed and halfway painted. (Remember, I wasn't documenting as well then)

I used a Valspar color on this that I bought from the return section for $5.00/gallon. You hardly use any paint when painting furniture so you should never need more than a quart...which could probably paint 5 of these.

Here's the finished product:

Here it is in Gabe's room! I want to get some airplane knobs to put on it, but haven't gotten around to that yet. (Christmas gift maybe...hint, hint family) :)