#38 Redo an Old Piece of Furniture

I have been thinking about refinishing my old dresser for a while now.

I remember sitting on top of this dresser to spy on my parents outside.  It was a summer night when my sister and I were super young, so that meant bedtime before sunset.  I never wanted to be left out of the action and thought I was missing something…ergo the spying.  Harriet the Spy was my hero for some time.

Anyway, I remember my mom staining this when I was very young…therefore it was in need of some sprucing.

BEFORE! It’s nice…just not my style and doesn’t match what I’m planning for the bedroom decor

AFTER!!

We sanded it lightly and then applied a simple white-wash stain.  It was so easy and quick because it isn’t meant to look perfect…which was super hard for Doug and I to accept.  We found some new knobs at The De-Pot…The Home Depot.  We love how it turned out and can’t wait to see what it looks like with everything else in room…eventually.

My Love/Hate Relationship with Our Kitchen Renovation

I am ecstatic that very soon my kitchen will look absolutely beautiful.  However, this whole not having a functional kitchen thing is getting old.  We started this project on June 11th and I think we were ready for it to be done on June 12th.  It isn’t a total renovation…walls and floor mainly, but we don’t do simple in this household, so it has been a process.  We redid our counter-tops shortly after we got married…replacing the old wood-grain laminate with marble tile.  We also bought a new sink because the old one was like an inch deep…ok, maybe 4… seriously…and it was that kind of stainless steel that always looked dirty.  Most of the cabinets were new when my husband bought the house, so those don’t need replacing.  The walls and floor were a mess though…not to mention I couldn’t stand the wall color…sorry honey!  The previous owners had obviously not been professional sheet-rock guys so they were pretty bad.  And there was an old laminate floating floor that was coming apart and just plain pitiful looking.

This is the before of the sink and cabinet area

The before of the fridge and oven area…duh

The before of where we do our eating…do you see my bread hoard to the right?

How come my kitchen looks so nice in pictures but when I try to take a picture of myself I look like complete death…anyways…

Where our fridge is currently residing…in my living room, along with our table

My poor oven and dishwasher are being subjected to this crazy heat…   *Quick Note…my husband is all worried that we look like slobs in this pic…however I am sure that most people know what everything looks like during home renovations*

So, that is the current state of my kitchen….living room…and back porch.  A terrible result of not having a functioning kitchen is that I can’t make dinner…insert sarcasm here.  I’ll post after pics as soon as there is an after but right now I have to go play checkers with a unicorn…or maybe that is the polyurethane talking…naw.