Rast Ikea Hack: Make Your Own Hollywood Regency Nightstand!
I really love Ikea hacks; their furniture is so versatile and it’s great that it usually comes unfinished. It’s the perfect blank slate for creating a customized piece of furniture in whatever style you want! So when Hickory Hardware and Pittsburgh Paints reached out and asked if I wanted to participate in an Ikea hack contest, I jumped at the chance! I turned this plain Ikea Rast dresser into a gorgeous Hollywood Regency nightstand with a few coats of paint, a piece of lace, new hardware, and some wooden trim!
I’m just so thrilled with how this nightstand turned out; and it’s way more functional than the Ikea Lack table I had been using previously because it has drawers to help hide the mess! I left the Kleenex and moisturizer within easy reach because my allergies are going crazy and I use lotion every night to help (hopefully) minimize stretch marks, but everything else can be hidden away in a drawer to keep it neat looking!
Turning this plain dresser into a cool nightstand wasn’t difficult, but there were a lot of steps. It is one of the “larger” projects that I’ve done, but if you break it down into steps, every single step is totally simple and doable, so I’m including the tutorial here in case you want to try your own Ikea hack!
Rast Ikea Hack: Plain Dresser To Hollywood Regency Nightstand
Here’s what I used for this project:
- Ikea Rast dresser
- Pittsburgh Pain Trim, Door, and Furniture paint (I used Charcoal Grey and Vintage Beige)
- drawer pull hardware (I used these gorgeous pulls from Hickory Hardware)
- oil-based primer
- grey spray paint
- natural bristle paint brushes
- 1-1/4″ wooden trim (to trim all three drawers you need about 20′)
- saw
- lace fabric
- painter’s tape
- wood glue
- wax paper
- clamps
By the way, if you like this Ikea hack, it’s part of contest over on the Hickory Hardware facebook page. Starting June 1st, you can vote for your favorite out of 9 Ikea hacks, so be sure to stop by then and cast a vote for your favorite project! I hope it’s mine, but you should vote anyway, even if this hollywood regency nightstand isn’t your favorite hack!
Here is the dresser I started with.
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