Turn Dresser Drawer Into Shelf

The fronts are all pulled loose and the bottoms of the drawers sag.

Turn dresser drawer into shelf.

You can use some paint and fabric or shelf liner. Watch me turn it into a useful shelf and stand for our living room. That is why you have to make sure that you have all the tools and accessories ready before starting anything. Set the shelf onto the brackets.

The older dressers usually do have that dust shelf in between the drawers but if it doesn t then you would need to add them in. That said there are a series of steps involved. She used reclaimed wood to back the shelves and turned an old soda bottle crate into a wine rack. Sand drawer step 1.

See how she did it. The shell is very sturdy and i would like to find a way to turn it into an open shelf that i could use for storage of either books or photos in decorative storage boxes. Let s say you re not happy with the way your old dresser looks and you want to get rid of it. After the feet are attached it s time for paint.

Prime inside i primed the inside of the drawer bottom and all sides step 3. With a fresh coat of paint and a few accessories beth of the blog unskinny boppy converted a 1980s chest of drawers into a wine bar cabinet. Now it s time to add legs. I have a small red dresser that the drawers are terrible on.

Put them together like pieces of a puzzle but not before you redesign them. Paint inside after the primer had dried i painted a dark gray. If any of the drawers are in decent shape as far as structure goes you could place the on top and make cubbies out of them. Once the gray dried i wanted a darker color so.

9 place the molding on front of the. It didn t require structural changes which makes turning a dresser into a shelf not an onerous project. Diy painted serving bar. Sand drawer i sanded the drawer inside and out step 2.

You cannot certainly transform a dresser into a shelf only by your hands right. After your shelves are cut drill pocket holes on the undersides of the shelves. Attach the shelves with the pocket holes on the bottom so they re hidden. Turning a dresser into a open shelf piece.

To secure the shelf shoot a nail from the outside in at each corner and at the center where the shelf and dresser frame meet. Likewise grab some drillers paints brushes angles screws scrap papers wooden boards saws and all the other tools as per your requirement. At least keep the drawers. If they re still solid and in good shape you can repurpose them into a bookcase.

This particular transformation simply required removing drawers and adding some paint.