Long Term Project: Furniture

This is a project that should be a long term one. Grandpa gave me that furniture, which used to be my mother's in her teenage years. On the left is how it looks now, and on the right is how I want it to look (thanks Photoshop for helping me showing to others what I have in mind).
The handles will be the same, but they need a good cleanup. Here's what my test on the handles looks like: kayanah.deviantart.com/art/Lon…