The legs are 16 round taper legs by waddell from home depot.
Diy adding legs to dresser.
I love these natural legs.
In order to hide the wood supports that the brackets were attached to i added a couple of 1 2 s around the edge as trim.
Updating furniture legs is so easy and makes such a big impact.
The simplest way to add furniture legs to a smaller piece of furniture is by using t nuts.
A quick and affordable trick for changing or upgrading the style of a piece of furniture is to swap in new legs or feet.
First you need legs.
Here are some terrific examples.
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.
For my project i used some vintage mid century legs with brass caps.
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.
They come in various sizes to accommodate large and small screws and once installed they re a nice secure fastener.
I added wood glue and clamped em down and let them sit for 24 hours.
You can purchase new legs at lowes home depot or even on amazon.
Now it looks like i have a brand new ottoman.
I realized after the first leg that the metal roller could be unscrewed so i did that for the other three legs.
Your measurements might be different.
Why not take this idea a step further and add legs or feet to pieces that are otherwise grounded.
We chose 4 blocks because that measurement made the block flush with the bottom of our dresser.
I ve been putting off the job as it looks so well 60 ish.
I have an old 1960 s dresser sitting out in the shop to repaint.
Each time i look at it i think it needs legs for added height and also to bring it the 2000 era.
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.
So you want to spruce up your couch.
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.
Adding the legs sure made the bookcase look so much better and suited for the space.
I added a couple of 1 4 s to the dresser and attached the leg brackets to the wood.