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This is a perfect solution for helping my boyfriend stay organized.

now, could you do a similar thing with the make-your-own chalkboard paint method (didn't you guys post that here a few months ago?) and just mix up enough for the write-on portions, so that you could use the same can of paint for the whole chest? that would be neat...i imagine that mixing in whatever the chalkboard paint ingredients are changes the look of the paint a little, so it would be easy to see where to write, but it would also be the same color paint as the rest of the piece.

cute idea. but i did like the dresser before and it's not that hard to remember what goes in a coupla drawers. also, only do this if you have cute handwriting.

now i sound like a whiner! boo me.

I think this is a great project for a really sad looking dresser in poor condition. However, in this instance you had an absolutely stunning antique wood dresser which might have best benefited from simply some new hardware!
A great idea, but I think it would be more appropriate for furniture that isn't already stunning.

A neat idea, especially for an office or art studio and in varying color palettes. I like the collection of Eva Zeisel ceramics, too...

I am with you, verano. This is the third criminal destruction of a beautiful antique piece of furniture today.

Enough with the chalkboard!

THAT IS UGLY AND CHALKBOARD PAINT SUCKS!!! GIVE IT A REST!!!

Aside from the fact this is a terrible thing to do to a great looking dresser, and aside from the fact this is chalkboard paint.... again, this is a more novel example of its use. Taping off the little chalkboard accents is a concept I almost really like. I could see doing something like this on the kitchen cabinets or in a kid's room (really where most chalkboard paint belongs anyway).

Sorry guys, that's not a fine piece of antique furniture! It's a cheap, mass produced dresser from the 30s or 40s (which makes it ... not antique). Just look at the front drawers - the very obvious stripes are bad veneer matches. Just because it originally came from a tree does not make it sacrosanct!

I think it's an awesome idea, one that can inspire a lot of different ideas.

The dresser's not that great, but the chalkboard paint seems stupid. Why label a drawer "sweaters" when you can open it up, if you have such a faulty memory?
If you're going to do this, at least make the labels provocative.
Another example of AT:LA's low taste level.

That wood was beautiful, I don't mind people painting furniture but paint something that is utterly destroyed and would have to be refinished anyways or something that isn't even real wood for that matter, why cover up something that is already beautiful.

You should of sold this to someone who would of appreciated it for what it is.

Your just going to donate this in a few years and people will be cursing you for what you did to it. I swear I do every time I go thrift or antique stores... "why did this person think this was a good idea?"

Stop killing real wood furniture with paint! And chalk board pant is a twisting of the knife. If you can't respect it go buy your furniture at Ikea.

Ok, Ok
I was going to let let everyone say their piece, but you guys need to let the dresser go. I don't know if the before photo did this dresser too much justice, but it was really in bad shape and I don't see it surviving one more move. It falls apart and I have to put it back together every time. The drawers are hard to open so they are only good for things you will need every once and awhile. If it was in great or even good shape, I would have sold it to someone who likes that sort of thing. I don't believe in keeping furniture around that isn't functional and you don't enjoy, just because it is an "antique" ... or old.

And did the painting make the drawers open easier and stop it falling apart?
These p[ieces are well made and can be repaired so they are as good as new. Unless you ruin the finish by painting it, of course.

These posts make me want to paint some furniture. The rigidity here is ridiculous.

I think people have inhaled a few too many cubic feet of chalkboard paint fumes around here (and not just on this entry...). At worst, this is no great loss. Lighten up.

This is definitely cool, and one thing that's cool is that you're tired of sweaters a few months later, and then it's bathing suits, because you want to wear a different one of THEM every day and need a drawerful, and now you erase one and write the others.

This is one of those things that definitely would make me keep the thing an extra ten years if I had done this to it, even if the drawers didn't work all that well.

Well done.