Our IKEA Tarva Dresser Hack

We loved using a dresser as a changing table with our older son, so for this nursery, we knew we wanted to try it again. We took an IKEA Tarva dresser and gave it a makeover – now, it’s the perfect changing table!

With just a little over a month to go before my due date, the nursery really is finally coming together.

And, thank goodness because the nesting urges are hitting me hard this time around.

I’m trying to share all of the little bits of progress in the nursery as we go (don’t worry, though, I’ll do an official “reveal” post once everything comes together!), so today I wanted to chat a little bit about the IKEA Tarva dresser that we painted and turned into a changing table for our little boy.

Here are the other nursery posts so far:

• Nursery mood board + plans
• Painting the walls
• Installing a DIY gallery wall
• Easy DIY board & batten wall

In Jackson’s nursery, we used a small vintage 3-drawer dresser as a changing table. We really loved the added storage and how it looked in the room, and he still uses the dresser in his room today! I love baby furniture that can last past the first few years, so I’m all about using a more unconventional approach to the changing table if it means we’ll be able to actually use it once our diapering days are done.

Also, it keeps randomly hitting me that we’re about to re-enter the diapering days. Y’all, I haven’t changed a diaper in two years and I really enjoy that fact. What am I about to get myself into?!

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IKEA TARVA Dresser Hack

Anyways. The dresser. You already saw a sneak peek of it (unpainted) when I shared the gallery wall I created for the nursery, but it’s looking 100% different now! It’s incredibly simple to turn a dresser into a changing table – all you really have to do is plop a changing pad on top and you’re done. I’ll show you the inside of the dresser on another day (I’m not quite done organizing it yet, but I will share a post all about nursery organization once I get everything done), but for now, let’s just chat about the exterior.

I painted it Behr’s Trellis Green – it’s really the perfect sage-y green and I adore how it looks. The color coordinates really well with the vintage rug that Unique Rug Store sent over to use to try out!! and I just love how the colors play together. We used this polyurethane to seal it, and so far it’s holding up really well, despite me doing tons of banging around and storing things on it.

The knobs we added were sent to us from our friends at Liberty Hardware – they’re this drum knob and they’re pretty much perfect. I love the shape and the gold tone, and I think it pairs so nicely with the green.

Basically, I’m doing all sorts of patting myself on the back for this one because I’m head over heels in love with how this dresser turned out!

The changing pad is this one (although, I think for the most part a changing pad is a changing pad!) and I’m pleasantly surprised to say it fits perfectly on top of the dresser – I was a little nervous because this dresser is pretty shallow, but it fits like a glove. We currently have this changing pad cover on it – I had the hardest time finding one that I liked! With Jackson, we had 2 or 3 different covers that we rotated between, so I’ll probably be tracking down a couple more so that we have backups for the inevitable mess.

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As far as the styling on top of the dresser, we still have a bit of work to do. I’m debating what I want to do for middle-of-the-night lighting in here – I’d like a small lamp for the dresser, but I haven’t found one that works yet. I’m trying to track down something nice and small (almost more like a night light), so if you have any suggestions let me know!

The last major project that we need to do in the nursery is to tackle the closet. Right now, it just has some plain wire shelves in it and no hanging space, so I want to make some changes so that it’s more functional for a baby’s room (and, eventually, a big kid’s room since we all know babies don’t keep!). We also have tons of small things to tackle like deciding what to hang above the crib, installing a fan, and some other minor details. Fingers crossed we can knock it all out before our baby boy makes his big debut – it was so nice to have a fully completed nursery this time around, so I’m hoping we’ll be able to accomplish that again!

And honestly, with how badly I’m nesting right now, my head might explode if we don’t get it all done. So let’s just hope we make it happen. For everyone’s sake.

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