Dresser Turned Into A Bench
Start by taking off the hardwood top together with the top sections of drawers.
Dresser turned into a bench. Hammer away any unneeded drawer supports or pieces in the middle the dresser where your bench will. In fact the finished project is one you d be happy to pay a lot of money for in any furniture store. Replace the top of your dresser with marble granite or butcherblock and you have a unique kitchen island with storage.
This is a very polished repurposed dresser. On the bottom set of drawers that remain open you can add a piece of hardwood or thick plywood top and use pieces of wood that you had taken off the drawer and fix them on the side of the top to reinforce it. I like the way you turned this dresser into a bench.
I needed my right angle drill for the screws in the back. Turn an old dresser into this adorable bench. Dresser turned into a bench from my repurposed life.
It would also be easy to just nail the bench top onto the dresser from the top. Share this with your friends on facebook so they can do the same. Assemble new bench made from a dresser.
Watch this step by step tutorial and you can do the same thing. This bench would look great in a foyer mudroom play room kids bedroom and even a family room. It doesn t look junky.
In order to add stability to the top after cutting i attached some scrap 1x2 s to the back with pocket holes and also re attached the front piece with pocket holes because it had fallen off when cutting it apart photo on the left. I put a really bright colored pillow in the seat of my bench and it is so stunning. I definitely can see this in a bedroom at the foot of a bed or in a child s room not only to be used as a bench but also for storage.