Apothecary Style Nightstands in Liquorice

We found these vintage nightstands with amazing drawer fronts that resemble the ever so popular apothecary or card catalog style. We knew that we had to have them just because of that!

But they came with one downside, they were pretty short! Bummer. With some help from the circular saw, some new legs and Country Chic Paint, we were able to transform these old nightstands into an amazing one of a kind set!

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Supplies:

We started out by cutting the bottom portion of the trim to get rid of the curves. We wanted a straight clean look, plus, the way we wanted to add legs wouldn’t work with the curved trim.

We measured, double checked, and grabbed our circular saw to cut away the bottom trim. We also used a straight piece of wood with some clamps to make sure we got a straight cut.

We needed something to attach our new legs to, so once we had fresh new straight trim, we added 3/4″ plywood to the bottom of each nightstand.

We attached the plywood with our nail gun using 1 1/2″ brad nails, making sure the wood was flush with each side of the nightstand.

This also helped give us back some of the height that we took off in the first step. Once the wood was attached, we sanded the edges smooth with our orbital sander.

We attached leg plates to the plywood on all four corners, and then simply screwed the legs into those.

A really good option is to paint the legs before attaching them to the furniture. It makes it so much easier to paint all the sides of the legs.

Since we wanted to update the hardware, we filled in all of the old hardware holes with Bondo and let them dry before proceeding.

Now for the fun part!

We lightly hand sanded everything with 220 grit sandpaper then cleaned them by wiping everything down with a damp rag.

Then we taped off the drawers to avoid over spray inside of them. We sprayed on two coats of the beautiful black Liquorice Furniture and Home Decor Paint for full coverage and then distressed the edges with 220 grit sandpaper.

To seal the paint, and add extra durability, we sprayed on 3 coats of Varethane Polyurethane! We also switched out the old hardware with new black label pulls from D. Lawless Hardware to complete the apothecary look.

The new legs completely changed up the style of the nightstands and the stunning Liquorice Chalk Based paint finished off the high end look we were going for.