I am officially impressed with my husband. In just a few days he was able to take the heap of junk dresser that he pulled from the side of the road, literally, and turn it into this beautiful dresser for our nursery!
I wish we had a better picture of how horrible this dresser was before he started working on it. When we first moved into our apartment it was "rubbish day" where everyone leaves their household junk out in the street for the city to haul away. Jon found this dresser, which had a broken leg, an awful white veneer covering, a top which had been so badly water damaged that it was one huge bubble, in short.... it was a mess. Jon had to beg me to take it, his best justification being that it had dovetail joints, and that anything made with dovetailed joints was worth saving. How glad I am that we rescued it!
It was a fun project to work on together. I got to sand it down (because that didn't involve any toxic fumes that might give us a mutant baby) but then we realized that it might have had lead paint on it-- thus the gas mask.
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Wow! Jon, you are amazing. I remember buying a desk at the Goodwill in Milwaukee for $25.00. My excuse to myself was, "Hmmm, at least all the drawers have dovetail joints." It turned out to be mahogany, Though I'm sure I didn't finish it nearly as snazzily as yours. We are getting excited for the baby of yours...
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