IKEA Moppe numbered drawers hack
Turn a plain IKEA Moppe into a cute set of drawers for all your child's trinkets. Better yet, they can help you with this hack!
Cost: €40
Equipment
- Hammer, meat tenderiser, other tools
- paint brush
- drill
Materials
- 1 Moppe set of drawers or other similar drawers
- milk paint in your chosen colour
- 6 numbered knobs
- furniture wax we used silver
Instructions
- Turn the drawers around so that you have the flat back showing, rather than the front with the cutout in it. Easy.
- Make dents and scratches in the wood. This will give the drawers more character and generate spots for the darker wax to cumulate. I gave Miss M a wooden meat tenderiser, a spurtle and a cocktail muddler and let her hit the drawers as much as she wanted. It was like playing drums!
- Paint. Don't worry about drips - they add to the patina. Leave to dry for 24 hours.
- Once the paint has dried, drill holes for the knobs. Actually, I didn’t do this, I got my Dad to do it. He was visiting and looking for jobs to do to help out. Done starting to look cute.
- Wax it with a soft cloth or brush. Using the soft cloth that came in the set, I showed Miss M how to spread the wax over the box. I had to go back over it and remove some of the wax, but she did a good job.
- Attach the numbered knobs. Miss M doesn’t have the coordination to help with this stage yet.
Notes
Follow the instructions on your paint tin for drying time.
We used silver furniture wax, because that is what Miss M chose (surprise, surprise). Black or grey would work well too. Clear will seal the paint, but will not highlight the dings and dents that you made, which would then miss the point.