Before & After: Old IKEA Nightstand Gets a Quick Refresh

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Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara is Apartment Therapy's News & Culture Director. When not scrolling through Instagram double-tapping pet pics and astrology memes, you'll find her thrift shopping around Boston, kayaking on the Charles, and trying not to buy more plants.
published Jan 13, 2015
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(Image credit: Aya)

These IKEA nightstands were still in good shape, if not particularly stylish. Aya tackled them with a quick and easy refresh that’s totally on trend:

(Image credit: Aya)

We can’t get enough white-and-wood mix, and it looks particularly great here.

From Aya:

I’ve had this Ikea nightstand for several years and since it was still in really great shape I didn’t quite want to get rid of it. It had turned a little drab and boring so to spice things up, I painted the drawer fronts a matte white. I love the clean white and natural wood combo. Instead of buying new drawer knobs I decided to just spray paint the existing ones in a shiny gold — voila!

Thank you Aya!