DIY Changing Table-Finished Product

We finally finished the changing table and I'm thrilled!  The plexiglass proved harder than we thought but all and all I'm over the moon with it.

The original.  Solid wood but a hot mess

The doors.  You can't tell here but one of the pieces of plexiglass had a crack and another had a black permanent marker on it.

The top just to show how scuffed it was.

After sanding Matt put stain on it.  Because of the natural wood combined with the wear and tear as shown above this was a little more challenging.  Our goal was to get it somewhere near the crib color.

As you can see this piece has a black marker line.  This was far and away the trickiest piece.  Because it's a solid piece of wood I ended up having to crack it (gently....if that's possible) with the maillot and screw driver.  Then I pulled out and discarded each of the pieces.  Eventually we replaced the plexi but not after trying a bunch of other ideas.

At the suggestion of Home Depot we added a primer to help with absorption.  It concerned me b/c as you can see it went on VERY streaky and having not worked with a primer I wasn't sure what to make of it.

Antique white paint

Drawer fronts painted. 

Finished product!

The fabric we ended up finding on fabric.com (after searching high and low at JoAnn's).  The knobs are from Target.  Ironically after looking at all sorts of specialty knobs those were the ones that worked best.   As for the drawer fronts, originally we thought we'd be able to slide out and then back in the plexi but that just wasn't happening.  We had to take plexiglass and, after cutting it to the approximate size, cut it again.  Matt then wrapped the plexi  in the fabric and then wedged the pieces back in one side, then the other.  He then screwed them in place just in case.  I came through and covered the inside drawers with a basic white drawer liner contact paper.  I trimmed the drawer fabric on the inside, hot glued it down and then put the contact paper over that.  The reason was mostly because I didn't want it exposed though I'll admit it's not beautiful.  However, it's clean and safe. 

 The lamp on top in the picture above is from Emerson's old room with a coral shade from World Market. Frankly I'm thrilled with it. Now to finish off the wall decor.