DIY project - IKEA Rast dresser makeover

I have just bought 4 Ikea Rast dressers.
They are cheap and untreated and great for DIY and I am definitely not the first to DIY this dresser.
Below are some Rast re-creations from others...

1. Almost Makes Perfect
2. Me, You and a Wiener
3. IKEA’s Livet Hema blog
4. Design Manifest
5. AM Dolce Vita


I bought two dressers for Chupi's room and two for the living room as a TV stand and DVD storage etc. The ones in the living room are still plain and very ugly and I haven't decided what I want to do with them. The two in Chupi's room have already been painted and only need hardware ...that's where I got stuck.
I bought and added the hardware to one of the chests and now I cant decide if I maybe liked it better with the original knobs.

What do you think, original knobs or the oriental brass ones? 

I might go for something completely different in the end... I will keep you updated on how it turns out. 


The stripey guys on the dresser are my Sock Monkeys, I am a bit of a sock monkey maniac at the moment and have to everyone's amusement started a mini sock monkey production line.

To finish today off here are some more IKEA Rast hack by other bloggers

1. Design Sponge

2. I Suwannee

3. IKEA’ s Livet Hema blog

4. Design Dump

5. + 6. I cannot find who hacked these but they are using the  decorative fretwork panels from O’verlays

See how the other pair of dressers turned out here.