How I Repaired an IKEA Kids Chair

DIY Furniture Flip: Refinished Solid Maple Dresser in Classic White

In this tutorial, I’m sharing how I completely transformed a solid maple, Canadian-made dresser into a fresh, modern piece that’s both timeless and functional. Originally a tired chest of drawers, this sturdy maple beauty got a full makeover — from sanding and priming to a crisp classic white finish and new stainless steel bar and knob hardware . The result? A clean, elegant dresser with five easy-glide drawers that looks right at home in any bedroom, guest room, or entryway. Follow along to see each step of the refinishing process and how a little paint and hardware can give solid wood furniture a brand-new life.

My sweet little niece has a cute little IKEA table and chair set but her older brother broke the laminated chipboard seat after falling on it while rollerblading in the house (Covid indoor activities ;) )

Here is the broken seat, there is no support except at the front and back hence why it snapped in the center.

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She asked if I had any wood to repair it but all I had on hand was thinner as shown above or thicker shown below.

But as a recycler and repurposer I had a couple more storage piles to check.

This is the front support edge with brad nails once I took it all apart.

A couple dowel were snapped off as well once it was apart so I drilled them out and replaced with new dowels.

In my last pile I found 3/8" plywood sheet that was perfect. I cut it first on the table saw to rip it down to a manageable size.

Then I fine tuned the piece on the mitre saw.

The edges were sanded smooth and tapped into the frame. See the added 1/4" piece under the front edge to give a firm surface to hammer on to affix the brad nails into the replacement seat.