When picking a paint color, have you ever looked at the paint chip and drooled over the entire range of colors? It's not so much one color that catches your eye, but all the shades of a color together. Who says you have to pick just one?
Pick all the colors on the paint chip and use them for your project. The effect you'll get is this ombre painted dresser. The top drawers are the palest pink and each drawer is just a brighter shade of the previous as you work your down. The overall look is colorful without being over the top. By the way, if you're curious about the rest of this nursery, check out the tour on Project Nursery.
(Image: Project Nursery)
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Comments (15)
I totally want to do this for my daughter's nursery. I saw it on pinterest with a beautiful teal but the pink is just so lovely! great job!
If that dresser has baby clothes in it, they'll probably want it out of the corner and some place easier to access quickly.
I love that!!!
I did this with my girls' dresser. I used the glidden paint samples to paint each drawer, so I didn't have to buy too much paint of each color. The little sample bottles were more than enough.
How timely! Just last week I was poking around on Blu Dot's website and I came across their modular nightstands and decided to try a range of blues. Looked gorgeous, but I didn't want to pay $900 for it. I have a four drawer MALM so I decided to Photoshop the colors onto the drawers. Looked pretty terrible, but I still think it's a great idea.
This is so cute! I've seen it done as stripes on a wall, but never on dresser drawers. Love it!
love it
I saw one of these in blue last week, and I *LOVED* it.
Lovely. I'll keep this idea in mind for my (far in the) future nursery.
Something about the distressing makes this look more shabby than chic. I do like the gradient idea though.
I painted my son's dresser drawers in the primary colors (matched his room), but the point I'd make is that I used small bottles of craft paint from the Dollar Store. Never chipped, no problems.
There was a similar project on a staircase in an issue of Martha Stewart Living last year; the balusters were painted in a range of blues. You can see it here: http://robynkleffman.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/railing.jpg.
I like the general idea. I might do something like that in black and gray.
I'm actually in the midst of doing this in green for the dresser in my son's nursery.
Save money by not buying every color of paint on the chip. Just buy the darkest one and then keep diluting it with white. Or you could get Home Depot's "sample size" pots (six ounces?) of a couple of the colors, and mix to get the intermediate shades. I did this effect on the walls of a guest bedroom in five horizontal tones.
I did one listed in the post below. Paint sample jars are perfect for this. Love love mine.
http://wearethebrights.blogspot.com/2011/08/random-kaitlyn-ings.html