Lily's Dresser

Progress on the dresser!  This is going into the baby's nursery.  It started as a plain brown armoire that has been mine since I was in middle school.  It is still in great shape, but the wood isn't the highest quality, so I decided to re-finish it in such a way that would look good in the beach-themed room.

First I took all of the hardware off and took the drawer and door fronts off.

Next, I used the Valspar spraypaint with the stone texture to texturize the doors and drawers.  The color didn't really matter, this was something we had leftover from another project awhile ago.

The next step was to paint the doors and drawers with the same sandy color I'm using for the walls in the bedroom.

Tools:  I used some packs of shells from Hobby Lobby and some liquid nails from Lowes to stick them to the doors.  

Here, I did the layout of the shells and decided how to position them onto the dresser doors.  The last one is the final product after everything was stuck down.  I also sprayed a thin layer of clear spraypaint to seal the shells and make the whole thing a little easier to clean.

I also added the shells to the drawers and sealed them with the clear spraypaint as well.

Here I taped and painted the dresser itself.  It is kind of her to see, because the lighting in the bedroom isn't ideal at the moment.  The photo on the left is the original and the one on the right is after the first coat of paint.

To be continued as I progress...