DIY Marble Top Dresser

This poor dresser. It's had so many makeovers in its few short years. I originally wanted the white one but our store didn't have one at the time and after driving over an hour I wasn't leaving without one. I decided I'd just get the dark one and I'd paint it later.

Eventually, I did end up painting it when we did our Phase 1 makeover in the rental house, I also sanded down the top and stained it..

And then I decided to paint it darker, Valspar Ocean Storm, when we moved into this house.

Now, I wanted something more like this.

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Gorgeous right? I'm totally loving the brass too but that might be something for the next house but for now I just wanted to focus on the marble top. I always planned to frame our mirror out to match the wood top but never got around to it and since painting it grey, the color seemed so off. Having this bright white mirror and the dark [way too dark] wood with the dark grey felt like too stark of a contrast. I didnt want something too permanent, like paint, because I'm not sure if I'll change my mind in the near future. Enter contact paper. Everyone's been using this stuff to cover their counters or table tops etc. There's so many great projects out there so I figured I take a whack at it.

Originally I bought two rolls from Lowes [$5.98 each] and I had planned to cover the laundry room counter with it, but it had too many corners and curves and I couldn't get it right so i gave up and painted them instead and put the rolls aside for someday. Today is that someday.

This is a fairly straight forward project. You cut the piece to fit, making sure you have enough hanging over to wrap around the front.

**My roll wasn't wide enough to cover in one strip so I did have to put a second strip on the back. If you have to do this too then I highly, highly recommend doing the back strip first [not like me] so you don't have to peel up the front once its stuck down as that causes wrinkles! Learn from my mistakes kids!

Then you just use a credit card to smooth it down.

Tuck the sides under,  then wrap the corner down and tuck the front under so that it looks like a present.

this is the back side, you can see some wrinkles from me having to pull up the front to put the back pieces in, again, do this part FIRST so you don't end up with this problem 

SO easy!

Before and after:

---Jackie