Adding furniture hardware is like adding jewelry to an outfit. It can definitely add interest and sometimes “bling”! I have refinished a lot of furniture over the years and this time, I decided to fancy-up this piece with new legs, paint and, yes, hardware.
I removed the feet; sanded, primed and painted! The paint is SW Emerald Urethane in a color match – Limousine Leather (color from Behr). This is my favorite paint and the finish is great. I applied with a paint sprayer.
I was inspired by the hardware on this Ballard Design piece. The hardware nearly covered the length of the drawer and a bit chunky!
I looked at the usual places (Lowe’s, THD, Menards) for a piece of trim that might work and didn’t find anything that looked like this. But, I did find a piece of interesting trim and added another piece of wood to the back to make it look more substantial. I adhered these together using wood glue. I cut these to the length I wanted and also sprayed and applied poly.
I found some tips on blog on how to fashion anything into a drawer pull. (Sorry, I can’t find the blog post now!). Essentially, connecting cap nuts, a matching machine screw and epoxy were used. I got these at Home Depot and spray painted the cap nuts gold.
I drilled new holes in the drawer fronts, threaded the screws from the inside of the drawer to outside and screwed them through the connecting cap. Then, I could just apply adhesive to the top of the cap and attach the pull.
Loving how the handles turned out!
