This is the story of how I saved this dresser from certain doom at the county dump. I was getting ready for work when my husband mentions that it was spring clean up in the neighboring town. I decided to take a quick detour on my way to work to see if I could find anything exciting. I spied this dresser tipped over on it's top in a pile of junk . I didn't have a lot of time to check it out but from the road it looked like it was worth saving. I called hubs to demand ask very sweetly if he could go down and check it out. Well, just so you know, hubs does not share my love of junk and he especially does not care for digging through other peoples junk but he did reluctantly agree to take a look for me.
So while I was driving down the highway I must have called his cell phone 15 times to find out if he had picked the dresser up. He finally answered and said that " yes" the dresser was still there but it had some broken parts and did I still want it. He didn't admit to me later that when I called he was already driving away without the dresser hoping that I would have forgotten about it. I said I wanted him to pick it up and we could always burn it if it was too terrible. I also reminded him that he was saving valuable space in the landfill by picking it off the curb. He was happy that when he dug through the junk pile to get the dresser he also found himself a diesel gas can with some sort of contraption on it that they don't make anymore.
So , here she it. We scraped loose veneer off the top and repaired a broken drawer. She is now a sturdy place to store my craft supplies in my office. I painted her with ASCP Country Gray with a dark wax.
Knobs from Hobby Lobby.
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