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Before & After: Maggie’s MALM Makeover

Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer spends her days writing and thinking about decor, food and fashion in NYC. Not too shabby.
published Jan 27, 2014
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Dark wood dresser with white lamp, framed photo, and potted plant on top against a blue wall.
(Image credit: Maggie Overby)

Maggie’s IKEA MALM dresser was super functional but pretty plain, so she got creative and gave it a budget makeover that adds plenty of glam style.

(Image credit: Maggie Overby)

Holy Hollywood Regency! Maggie used overlays to create contrast on the drawers and, as for those cool knobs, she really went all out.

From Maggie:

The knobs are standard stock from Lowe’s, but for big impact I used a plumbing flange to really make them stand out. I checked all departments for something that might suit my needs and hit the jackpot in plumbing. I scored these flanges for $1.63 each. The knobs were $1.32. That’s big impact for less than $3 a knob.

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Thank you Maggie!

Re-edited from a post originally 1.27.14-NT