Diy Adding Legs To Dresser

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Diy adding legs to dresser.

You can purchase new legs at lowes home depot or even on amazon. Doing so will add height and visually lighten the piece. So you want to spruce up your couch. For now i m talking about how to add legs to furniture and the impact it can have.

One leg took about 20 25 minutes. Updating furniture legs is so easy and makes such a big impact. Adding the legs sure made the bookcase look so much better and suited for the space. Here is a list of the stuff you ll need new legs ebay or specialty hardware stores cordless drillflathead screwdriver to get out staples withstaple gun stapler will work but it not the best s.

I added a couple of 1 4 s to the dresser and attached the leg brackets to the wood. They come in various sizes to accommodate large and small screws and once installed they re a nice secure fastener. The simplest way to add furniture legs to a smaller piece of furniture is by using t nuts. Now it looks like i have a brand new ottoman.

First you need legs. I purchased a small ottoman at goodwill for 12 and took the legs off of that. Couch legs adding or changing. For my project i used some vintage mid century legs with brass caps.

The legs are 16 round taper legs by waddell from home depot. To create supports for the legs to attach to we cut and added 4 x 4 blocks of wood and secured them into place through the outside of the dresser by insetting the screws. We chose 4 blocks because that measurement made the block flush with the bottom of our dresser. Each time i look at it i think it needs legs for added height and also to bring it the 2000 era.

I love these natural legs. I added wood glue and clamped em down and let them sit for 24 hours. I realized after the first leg that the metal roller could be unscrewed so i did that for the other three legs. T nuts aka tee nuts rivet or blind nuts can be found in local hardware stores in the fastener section for usually less than 50 each.

I ve been putting off the job as it looks so well 60 ish. Here are some terrific examples. Why not take this idea a step further and add legs or feet to pieces that are otherwise grounded.