Bought this bad boy when I lived in Phoenix. I put an ISO out for a "federal style" tall boy dresser for my sons room, and a good friend reached out to me and informed me she had one in storage. She had drawn over the top of the paint with chalk, and even with out it... who ever painted it in the first place did a very poor job. The primer they used shows through the black and the black was very uneven.

I started by stripping the original paint, in hopes that the paint I used would chip and display the dresser underneath.
If you haven't used stripper before, its really not that bad. Use a brush to apply the stripper over the paint and let it sit. When you see the paint start to ripple like the picture below, take a scrapper and follow the grain of the wood.
You will probably need to repeat it once or twice. If you don't wait long enough to remove each coat, you will need to do more. Once you have remove enough of the original paint, you can sand anything remaining.
After seeing the original dresser, I almost talked myself out of painting it! But I did anyways...
I decided to use MMSMP for this piece, which was my first time! I picked the color "typewriter" because I was so in love with the desk that Miss Mustard Seed painted with it.
I started by painting the parts of the dresser that I hoped would chip because the paint didn't have a bonding agent. However, because their was no finish left on the wood from the stripper, the paint didn't chip at all!
Over all, I am pleased! The milk paint went on smooth, and has a beautiful even finish. It distressed very easily. After distressing, I waxed, added the knobs and voila!

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