How to man up your cheap girly dresser!

In this Instructable I show you how to camouflage and add rope handles to your cheap girly dresser.

You will learn how to spray paint objects, camouflage objects, and tie basic knots.

Step 1 Supplies

You will need:

-Some thick rope(best if black and polyester).
-Five cans of spray paint, types listed in picture (I get mine at my local HobbyTown USA but you can probably get it online or somewhere).
-Drill and a drill bit thats a little thicker than your rope.
-Whatever type of tool you use to get your old dresser handles off in my case a phillips drill bit.
-Sand paper (power sander optional)

Comments

[amccullars]

Absolutely love this! My son's room is camo and I have been trying to decide whether to re-paint his dresser a solid color or strip it and stain it, but I will definitely be painting it camo. Thanks for the awesome step-by-step instructions!

[Spint180]

Awesome! I'm glad they helped!

[Yoda2088]

its seems like if you had painted it black, you would have gotten the manly across rather than the slightly trashy. The black would have held an air of slight sophistication. but who needs that when you're a man... right? I think that's just my opinion though. but i DO like the idea of how easy it is to mod furniture!

[Spint180]

Well I guess trashy is all in the eye of the beholder, but it actually ties into the rest of my room rather well. The pictures just don't quite do it justice actually.

[gmjhowe]

nice, i like! now u got a proper MAN dresser. i cant but help but think that a couple of decommissioned grenade would make for wicked handles!

[Spint180]

Gotta get a' hold of some of those for extra manliness lol.

[gamer]

land mines! or wait, why not put some guns (maybe some colt .45's) as the handles:p... anyways... i have my sisters old dresser which is gonna retire soon and be burnt but i'm gonna buy a girly dresser just so i can do this!! nice instructable, very detailed and very nice final project. one question, how much did the total project cost? -gamer

[Spint180]

About 12 dollars :).

[gamer]

i meant with the price of the dresser and all...

[Spint180]

Well the dresser had been around for a while I really have no idea of the price, sorry. Your best bet would be just to keep your eye on at garage sales and dumpsters. You can find plenty of furniture for cheap to nothing there.

[sideways]

"Camolicious" indeed! I have an old beat up dresser that is perfect for this. And altho I am a girl, I don't like girly furniture either lol. I might even camo my desktop case.

[Spint180]

Cool always nice to meet a fellow camo. enthusiast.

[Weissensteinburg]

But how do you find you dresser when you need clothes? It might be worth mentioning only to melt your rope if it is polyester.

[Spint180]

Thanks and fixed it.

[GorillazMiko]

WOAH. I don't have any girly dressers, but wow, this is really cool! Maybe if your walls were camouflage too... that would be cool. Better yet, have the cubbies come out of the wall. Great job!

[Spint180]

I am actually going to be camoing that section of the wall with real paint pretty soon. Great minds think alike.

[bumpus]

awesome, but for even more manly toughness, you could (if you own one) shoot it with a shotgun, with very fine buck-shot, makes it gnarly and rugged

[Spint180]

Good idea sort of artificialy age the wood. Maybe for a future project?