One of our friends, Nancy, can take the simplest things and spin them into gold. Here's something she did to spice up the knobs of a plain wooden bureau she rescued from the curb. After repainting it and sanding the top, she used Japanese Origami Paper to cover the wooden drawer knobs and make the bureau all her own. Here's a closer look...
To transform the bureau's plain wooden knobs, Nancy just used eastern-inspired, patterned origami paper (she purchased hers through Dick Blick, but you can get it at many craft stores). Nancy just glued the paper on with modge-podge and then put a few more coats of modge-podge on top as it dried. We love how the simple (and subtle) transformation makes the bureau look warmer and gives it a personality. Also that each knob is unique!
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Very clever!
Did she line the drawers w/ the same paper?
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They are nice, but I find them way too small for the dresser, they seem lost in the white. A bigger size would look better.
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Hmmm...it seems that the knobs don't really make that much of an impact for me. Perhaps it's because they are so small as Daniel pointed out.
view suzy8track's profile
I like the idea, but the now not-quite-perfectly-round-ness of the knobs would bug me.
Now, if she would have applied the paper to the drawer fronts, and then painted the knobs white to 'pop' from the patterns, I'd be all over it.
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I'm afraid I'm on board with the other commenters. The roughness of them would bother me and they're so small that it's hard to really see much of the pattern. Perhaps the impact is greater in person than in photos.
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I really like this idea! I've never seen it before and it looks great. I love people who can think originally like this. I'm more of a solid color person bedding in the bedroom and this would be a great accent. If the knobs were any bigger it would change the feel of the cool smaller size of the dresser, also make it look a bit too retro for me. bepsf, I like the idea of lining the drawers with these too!
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I sort of like the concept, but I agree that the pulls are too small and dark for the white dresser.
What I would do to compensate is to decoupage a square of origami paper underneath each knob, maybe in a contrasting pattern and color, then reinstalling the knobs (centered on the squares.)
For even more pizzazz, a person could carefully outline each square of origami paper with gold metallic marker pen...
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