Gotta love DIY!

I'm all for the whole DIY thing, but I must admit that sometimes I have trouble picturing the finished product. I watch enough Sarah's House to know that old things can look new again with a nice coat of paint, but again sometimes I have trouble picturing it when I'm doing it myself! I have been getting better at imagining the finished product in my mind. I normally have a type of piece in mind and hubby gets frustrated with me when I saw "no I don't like that one" 10 times before I find a piece of old furniture that I like.

Every holiday weekend from May till October Bob and Al, of Buzzard Antiques, collect "Stuff in the Ruff" (as they put it) for their barn sale.
We have found a few pieces in the last few years that we have given new life to, which I referred to in my first post!

During one of their barn sales on the Thanksgiving weekend, we found a really nice dresser that we decided to transform and use as a bedside table for our guest room.

It took lots of convincing to get me to buy it, because of the disgusting mouse poop inside it and the ugly finish it had!
It already looks better with a sanding. I could finally see the potential!


This is how it ended up

We gave it a few coats of Antique white paint, finished with a coat of dark stain on the top and some new hardware! For the time being, the door is staying off since it needs to be put back together (|I kinda like it like that though).

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