Dresser Makeover and a Question

A few weeks ago, I tackled a room makeover for my soon-to-be-12-year-old son’s room.  

We hadn’t done much in there and his room really was a hodge-podge of furniture that was waiting to be made-over.

As you may recall, I shared some of my pre-teen boys room makeover ideas here.

Here’s the idea board I came up with to get us started and to keep us on track:

The room is 90% done, but I haven’t shared much about it, until today.

First up, his dresser makeover.

I haven’t shared it because I’m still not sure it’s really done.  I’ll explain why in a minute.

First, let me show you the before:

It’s your run-of-the-mill Cargo Kids dresser except I painted the pulls red. (You’ll notice the metal pulls on top…these are the new ones I put on and was trying them out to see if we liked them. I was too lazy to take them off for the before picture!)

We bought the dresser on Craig’s list about 5 years ago and it was part of a bunk bed set.

I had every intention of doing a complete makeover on it but both my husband and my son loved it the way it was.

So, I simply sanded it down, re-oiled it and painted the very dirty pulls to match his more boyish room.

I didn’t love it, but he did so I called it a day.

Here’s what it looks like today:

It looks so much better, don’t you think?!

But, here’s my question.  See this?

There’s a little “ring” around many of the pulls.

This is the reason I never changed the pulls before.

I sanded and sanded the dresser drawers and could never get rid of some of these light spots.

I had hoped that if I added a little extra stain to those areas that I could make them less noticeable.

It didn’t work.

I bought the biggest pulls I could find that might help cover that area.

They helped, but they don’t cover it all.

I love the mix of stain and paint on this piece, so I’m hesitant to paint over the stained drawers.

And, the stain goes really well with his bed.

So, what to do?!

Keep it as is and just pretend I don’t see the little rings or do something different?

The perfectionist in me feels the need to fix this problem.

I’ve thought about painting stripes down the front that might cover up the spots I don’t like but I’m afraid it will be too busy.

I’ve thought about using chalkboard paint on the drawer fronts and covering the stain.

I’ve also thought about just painting the whole piece the same color blue (it’s Artissimo Blue by Miss Mustard Seed, by the way and I love it in his room!).

What are you ideas?

I would love to hear them!

 

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