I'd been wanting to put a dresser in the primary bedroom for awhile and finally found one that would work, check it out:
Here is the space before, I had been using the top of a China cabinet as a TV stand.
With the purchase of an actual dresser, I moved the China cabinet top back where it belongs.
Here is the new dresser as I found it at the thrift shop. I Googled the nameplate and found that similar dressers by this designer go for 2 thousand and up...is that even real??? 😄
It was only marked at $39. And because there was a 20% off sale that day, I only paid $32. I swear, sometimes this feels illegal!
I got it home and set up in the front room to work on it. I am totally guilty of throwing down tons of drop cloths so that I can work in comfortable temperatures in front of the TV 😎
Once I had the piece cleaned, sanded and painted, I needed to move it into the bedroom through this narrow hallway.
I flipped the unit on it's side and used smooth cotton bedsheets underneath. This allowed me to slide it across the wood floors without scratching them.
It just made it!
I moved the main unit first and then followed up with the drawers. Anything you can take out or off makes things so much lighter!
And here we are now. Somebody's multi thousand wooden dresser sold for $32 and got painted white 😂😆😎
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-Jennifer
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