Remember a long, long time ago when I decided to change up our master bedroom? Well when we changed our room around, putting our large king size bed against the longest wall of the room, I suddenly had room on both sides of our bed for side tables. Good thing too because I love having a lamp right beside the bed. I knew right away that I wanted to do an Ikea rast hack.
Introducing the Rast dresser (they call it a dresser, but in my opinion it's a tad bit small to be called that). This basic little dresser has had MANY hacks done to it. Probably because its so cheap, and since its not stained or painted, it's basically an empty canvas for you to do whatever you want to it.
My inspiration for the hack came from This dresser. Why spend $200 on a dresser, when I can get almost the same thing for $40? Plus I wanted one on both sides of the bed, so the Novyll dresser was just not possible.
I was pregnant when I started this project. Like first trimester pregnant. Since I didn't want to play with chemicals, I got my sister to do the staining for me. She did an awesome job. The stain only cost $6.00 and we didn't even use half of it. Then I did one thin coat of white paint (that I already had) over each of the drawers. I wanted a thin coat to give it a white washed look. Then, finally in November, I added the hardware. I suppose you could paint and use the hardware that comes with it, but I wanted something a little nicer.
Here's the end result!
And now my bedroom make-over is ALMOST complete! What do you think!? What's your favourite Ikea hack?
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