Stripping Weather

I have been stripping a piece of furniture and with our low humidity and pleasant temperatures, I decided to take advantage of the weather conditions to work on it again today. It's a small chest of drawers which was first used in my mother's baby nursery. Years later, my parents used it for me. When used in my baby room, it was painted white with pastel colored drawers--each a different color. It was later painted glossy white with bright shiny red drawers for use in the bedroom that my sister and I shared. In third grade, I got my own room and my parents bought me a beautiful French Provincial bedroom set. I loved my canopy bed and its matching pieces! The dresser to that set replaced my chest of drawers, but we still used it for supplemental storage over the years. I have had it for much of my married life (in my basement) and recently decided I would like to give it a new look and purpose. So, I  began stripping it. I will paint it once I have this (tedious) step completed, but I am considering colors. I'm leaning toward a distressed finish, but we'll see.

 

 

This is one of the drawers before I started working on it.

 

Here it is in progress...

It's almost finished. I need to go back and get the small areas along the edges.

If you are in the market to strip anything, I highly recommend this product that I found at Home Depot. You simply spray it on, allow it to sit and then go back and scrape. It does a very decent job with fairly minimal effort.

Last summer I used it on an old family table from Randy. When the brown paint was stripped, we found this beautiful wood beneath! I just sealed it and opted not to paint it.