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| Old "media" center |
We're still deciding what the final "feel" of our living room will be so buying a media/entertainment center for the room was premature. But, the current thing that we were using definitely could not be a permanent solution (sorry for the low resolution image, it was the only one I could find).
It just so happened that Sarah picked up an old dresser from the side of the road a few weeks back and thought that it just might be able to be transformed into a sufficient media center until we decide what we really want to do.
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| Old dresser with old finish |
Our goal was to sand off the old finish and get back down to the bare wood. To do this, we used a basic orbital sander with pretty course paper (100 grit). Of course, the orbital sander would not reach all the small areas of the dresser so some hand sanding was definitely required. Once we were down to the bare wood, we went over everything again with fine sandpaper (400 grit) to make it nice and smooth. We probably should have done a medium grit in between, but for this project, we were not that particular.
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| Sanded dresser |
Since this was going to be a media center, we need to have shelves. The TV would sit on top, but DVD play, receiver, etc needed to go on shelves. For this, I just picked up some 3/4" pine boards and cut them to size and fit them inside the dresser. The wood still wasn't in perfect shape after the sanding, so we elected to use a dark stain (dark walnut). The dark color would help hide any imperfections in the wood and would also work well in our living room. Finally, we put on 3 coats of polyurethane finish to help protect the it once started placing items on it. We used a satin finish, again to help hide any imperfections in the wood.
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| Stain and Polyurethane |
Check out the finished product below! Still a temporary solution, but one we can live with much longer!! Total cost was about $10.00 for the stain and polyurethane.
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| Finished Media Center |
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