Dresser it up in my love-of-green

Does the song pun resonate with anyone? Or is it two steps too removed? If you find a perfectly nice solid wood piece that's just not right for you, try dressing it up in some paint.

I found this perfectly nice wood dresser, wait, is that a thing that other people say? If something is "perfectly nice" is it perfect? Or nice? Or just a modified, more superlative, type of nice? Which doesn't make it any better....

To recap:
I found a dresser.
It wasn't broken.
It had all it's parts.
It was a manageable size and I felt like I was going to want a dresser.
Perfect.

I lucked out and had a friend with an SUV around to help me move it. After that I was on my own.  I removed the bottom front scrollwork-piece in order to lighten up the shape, to modernize it a tad by giving more clearance above the floor. Also I thought it would let me cram shoes underneath if needed....

Then some sanding (blech), and a bit of spackle on the old dresser pull hardware holes. I didn't know what I was going to do for drawer pulls, but I knew I didn't want to re-use the old handles because they clang about when used. Then off to find the most vibrant emerald green paint possible using only color swatches at the hardware store. Didn't want it too yellow, or olive, or hunter green, just wanted it to glow.

Here it is while being painted. I was happy with the color after seeing it on the piece. Going with a lacquer-style finish would have made it more glow-y, maybe I'll try that in future.

After the paint was dry I agonized over hardware pulls, sort of. I wanted some trendy art-deco-inspired gold pulls with inlay, but they were like $30/knob at that store with really cute and curiously expensive clothes and housewares.... Guess who didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars on drawer pulls for a dresser saved from the junk heap? To compromise on the vintage-inspired look that was dancing around my head I used white ceramic knobs that I already had, salvaged from some previous and forgotten furniture. 

It was fine, not exciting, just.... perfectly nice.
That's how it stayed, until I saw the beetles.

SCARAB BEETLE DRAWER PULLS.

GOLD SCARAB BEETLE DRAWER PULLS.

A combination of Egyptian mythological references, art deco (maybe?), and the catch-all category of nature-y, in full bling. 

Extra bonus is that these drawer pulls are durable souvenirs from a vacation. 

Functional and fun and a reasonable amount of euros per pair.

Now it looks fully dressed.

Happy freestyling.