Would possibly 8, 2014
Proper right here’s slightly bit lesson in educating an outdated canine new strategies. Successfully, an outdated dresser anyway.
My mom and pa helped us do a furnishings swap just some weeks up to now. They launched us this altering desk from my sister Cait’s residence and delivered to them a model new one to take its place.
The dresser is analogous one which my mom and father used with me and my three sisters and for the earlier 12 months it’s been home base for a certain little East Village nephew. Now it’s time for it to get some movement from a Junebug and his or her cloth-diapering-maverick mom and father (we’re on a confidence-boosting advertising marketing campaign over proper right here).
I’ll admit that my sentimentality for outdated furnishings has its limits. I’d really reasonably the angles had been a bit a lot much less curlicued and I couldn’t abide by the brass handles. I moreover didn’t have to spend a lot of time or money on an exchange.
Enter the common-or-garden roll of flat lace leather-based.
For decrease than 10 {{dollars}} and in under half-hour, I made 8 leather-based dresser drawer pulls. The realm between the two holes was a perplexing 2 and 5/8 inches, so going the selfmade route was less complicated than redrilling to go well with an everyday 3-inch pull.
For this dresser, 10-inch strips of leather-based had been prolonged enough to make a pull that was a comfortable 1.5 inches away from the dresser with room enough to tie knots. 
To make each pull, I tied three lengths of lace collectively in a knot, threaded it by way of one hole (starting from the inside) and made a straightforward braid. 
Then I threaded the remaining end once more into the drawer and made one different knot to protected the take care of. 
I drained my biggest to keep up the width regular so that the dresser didn’t end up with pulls of assorted depths. 
Pretty close to even, I’d say. 
Et voila. An outdated dresser made newish as soon as extra.
Particulars in regards to the paint various proper right here. Additional on painting furnishings correct proper right here.
{Chemical-free cotton altering desk pad with washable covers courtesy of my hard-working mama—in another case typically referred to as grammy.}