Remember when I blogged about my hand-me-down dresser? I haven’t forgotten about it, promise.

As it turns out, I was apparently on a white paint terror this weekend. All furniture in our house should’ve made a run for it, because I was having a ball with my paint brush. Besides our staircase, what was I painting? This beautiful dresser I’d recently inherited from my Momma’s sweet friend…

I painted it. And I had all these plans to go crazy with a paint color or even a design, but when it came down to it, I just decided I like white furniture. A lot. It matches everything, and in a small and old house like we have, it makes rooms look a little bit bigger and fresh. AND, for all you wood furniture fans out there, don’t be mad at me! The dresser had this funky paint and stain on it, so I promise I didn’t paint over pretty wood. I painted over dingy paint, which is something the photos don’t show.

Here’s a quick shot of the dresser with a few coats of white paint in our guest room…

As it turns out, the dresser actually needed five coats of paint. Yes, five. Yikes. It’s safe to say I did A LOT of painting this weekend. Now, it just needs needs knobs and it will be done!

So, about the knobs….I actually have them, but I only have three of them right now, and the dresser needs six. I found the knobs at Anthropologie on sale for $2.95 each. Score. They are called the ripe melon pull and I love the ceramic gourd and the fluted brass. Classy, eh?

The store only had three of the green knobs (they still have white in stock online if you want to grab a few of your own), so the other three are currently in the mail and being sent to me from New Jersey. As soon as I have them in my hands and place them on the dresser, this little baby will be in business. Here’s a sneak peek picture of the dresser today…

I am hoping to have my puurty green knobs by the end of this week, which means this tired dresser will be all dressed up and ready for its grand reveal next week.

Stay-tuned!

This weekend I found myself wandering through Anthropologie. I meandered around for a LONG TIME because there were so many darn things to look at. It was surely a looking day (not a buying day) so I was more concerned about the items in the actual store, as opposed to trying to figure out what the heck I wanted to buy. Looking days make me actually study and appreciate things. On buying days, my mind is already thinking about what I’m going to have in my hands at the checkout counter,  and I tend to forget about the items themselves. Note to self: bad habit.

A few items that stopped me in my tracks…

Reassembled mirror

Garvey Chair 

Copper Clad dresser

Marigold Bed

Collected Memories Mirrors

Dusky Blooms Pillow

Sweet As Honey Rug

Pen & In Violas

Ring of Light Lamp

As usual, no prices are attached to the above items because I feel like that ruins the fun. Dreaming is certainly allowed and encouraged on Restored Style.  With that said, you can just click on the name of the item and it will take you directly to the Anthropologie site for more information. I will say that all of the above items would be big-time splurge items for me personally, but regardless, they are still fun to look at!

Let’s chat bowls. Actually, not just bowls, but very pretty and beautiful bowls. Trusty ‘ol Anthropologie has a bundle of them and they surely don’t dissapoint.

Small Dot & Dash Bowl in blue

Atom Art Bowl in green

Inside Out Bowl in red

River Delta Bowl in green

River Delta Bowl in red

Inside Out Bowl in sky

Inside Out Bowl in Pink

Aren’t they beautiful? I think I might be afraid to eat my daily dose of oatmeal outta them because they are so dainty. Love them. Most of the bowls featured above are $8.00 each, so they are still in the affordable range.  Love that fact too.

Any favorites? 

All images and additional bowl info can be found here.