Alex gets a facelift

October 7th, 2009 admin

Jessica gives her Alex drawer unit a facelift. “I changed my white Ikea Alex to better suit my decorating tastes.” The drawer units were first given a thorough paint job with spray paint . When dry, she mod podged the front panels with scrapbooking paper. Her instructions are here .


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