the dresser unveil

Many months ago, I posted about the dresser we planned to re-do.  My father-in-law started it all back at Thanksgiving by telling me about this old dresser CJ bought at an auction years ago for $5.  When I had two weeks off at Christmas, I intended to finish this project.  But, it required a lot of work and a lot of things just got in the way (the uninsulated, freezing garage and my general laziness, to name a few).  Anyway, it's finally done, so here are the pictures:

Before:  A hot mess.

Stripped:  The original tone was beautiful, but obviously, with three drawers missing, there wasn't much we could do to make it look lke the original.

After

I'm guessing this cost us about $75 total.  The knobs were a little pricey (you can't tell here, but they have green detail on them to match the paint).  And I paid a little more for the Behr paint with the primer already in it (which was definitely worth paying the extra $5 to skip the priming step).  CJ might have had to buy a few pieces of wood, but I'm guessing he had most of it on hand already.

The best part is, this allows me to take away some furniture in the living room and it gives me extra storage space in the house.  So even though it took us months to finish this one, I'd say it was time and money well spent.