Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Painted Dresser

If you have been to our old apartment or our new home, you are probably aware of all our "hand-me-down"  furniture.  I truly believe in the saying, "fix it up, make it do or do without," Pres. Hinkley.  We have been reluctant to buy much furniture, mostly because we dream that maybe Greg could make the furniture with the few tools he has, or buy high quality (non-particle board) wood.  Both of which would take either a lot of time or a lot of money.  So, to keep our bank account from dropping too much, we have simply made do with what we had.  Our daughter needed a new dresser, and a friend gave us a hand me down with broken hardware.  The pictures don't really show how beat up it really was, but we bought a "sample" of paint ($7.00) and some new nobs (20$) and made a nice little dresser for Madison.  Maybe we should have painted it white, but it was fun to do something a little different!


Greg removing the old, non-functioning hardware.


I ended up painting the dresser twice, since they didn't get the color right the first time (gave me the wrong color), it took a couple days because of that, but we are happy with our finished product! In the end we could have paid 4 times as much and purchased a cheap dresser, but for now this will do nicely!

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