I had been wanting to give my master bedroom a makeover ever since we moved into our new house. But obviously buying all new furniture was pretty unrealistic. I couldn’t easily come up with an excuse for the hubs as to why I needed all new furniture considering there was nothing wrong with the current stuff. So I pushed it down on the list.
Except one day while I was browsing through this antique shop (it’s next door to the dog’s groomer so I peek in every time I take Bruiser to the groomer) I found these night stands. I fell in love with them immediately but thought “theres no way I can afford these and no way am I convincing the hubs I need them”. For giggles I asked a staff member how much they cost since there was no tag. She came back and said “they’re 40 dollars”. After I picked my jaw up off the floor I had to repeat back what she just said, “you mean 40 for each, so $80 for both of them?”. As quick as she said “yes” I said “I’ll take them.” For $80 there wasn’t much explaining I had to do at home.
So home with me they came. They sat in the garage for a couple months. Yes, months. Very unlike me since I’m so impatient but they didn’t match my current furniture at all and they would look totally out of place. But I knew they would match the direction I wanted to take my new master bedroom in. Here’s a picture of my master bedroom dressers. The OH-SO-Famous IKEA Hemnes 6 drawer chest and 8 drawer dresser.
They have that pretty modern look like everything else at IKEA. And now I had “new” antique night stands. Did I want new dressers to match my night stands? Of course I did. But that was completely unrealistic. So I decided to give my dressers a simple upgrade that made a huge difference in my opinion. New knobs were the answer. Here were the knobs before (that they came with).
And here’s more close ups of the night stand knobs I wanted to match them to. The color of the night stands are mostly gray with a hint of green, and clearly photograph in both colors.
I went shopping at Home Depot for knobs to match those. The “popular” knobs out there are the modern, silver, sleek ones and they cost $$$. Ironically I was trying to find gold, antique ones which are the cheapest ones in the aisle. Score! I found these knobs that match pretty darn well for only a $1.28 each.
So I bought 26. 12 for each dresser and 2 for the closet doors. For a total of only $35. Here’s the new look of the dressers with the new knobs.
And here are the same knobs on the closet doors.
I think it gives them a whole new look and ties in my modern dressers with my antique night stands for a small price tag. It’s a heck of a lot better than spending $$$$$ on all new dressers, which allowed me to buy some new accessories for the room. More details on my master bedroom makeover coming soon!