dresser project

Our bedroom is lacking storage we know what we want/need but we also know what our budget is small. We have a furniture piece in our garage from our bedroom at our old house but we painted it to fit the decor of that bedroom and it doesn't work with the decor in our forever bedroom. Now, yes we can sand it down and repaint it but finding the time and motivation at the same time is hard to come by and it's a little wider than we would like for the space we have. I've been stalking the Goodwills and St Vincent de Paul's this past winter and it's all about timing and my timing has been off.

Now, that the weather is improving garage sales are happening again those too are all about timing.  Well a couple weeks ago my timing was ON! There was one in our neighborhood so Ian and I stopped by and what do you know I found this guy:

Please disregard Ian's pose, he was apparently practicing his downward facing dog yoga pose.  Anyways back to the find, I picked this guy up for $20 talked them down due to the missing hardware.

After $57 and some circular elbow action we now have this:

The previous owner was a smoker and if you have never had to deal with furniture smelling of smoke I don't suggest you go out looking for a piece. We picked up a stripper product made by Zinsser to assist in not only removing the previous finish but also in hopes of removing the scent that came with it. It took approximately 4wks from its arrival to our house to finished product, the airing out time and the stripping product both assisted in removing the smell.  I wanted a dark finish so I went with Ebony and after what seems like 20 coats it was time for some polyurethane which would seal the stain.

Price breakdown:

Dresser: 20.00

Stripper: 14.00

Stain: 15.00

Hardware: 22.00

Polyurethane: 6.00

So here again is before and after: