Dresser

When we adopted Isaac, we had no furniture.  Like none.

Well, a pack and play, but that's not really furniture.

About 8 months earlier, I found a dresser on Craigslist that was maple.  It was gorgeous, and would work for a boy or a girl (depending on the finish).  I emailed the listing, and told my husband that if it was available... I was buying it. 

I don't think he believed me until he came home and saw it sitting in the garage.  And it sat there... for months

I was looking around for inspiration, and found Kim's version, at To Much Time On My Hands, and the amazing dresser she had done.

Now that I had my inspiration, my Mom and I got started!  (she came into town when we got back from Kentucky with our son).

We could have sanded it, but decided in the interest of time, we would just strip.

This was the set up in our garage (the towel hanging down was to block the sun on the drawers that were being stripped)

I should note that we did this on one of the hottest days of the year (literally, it was like 108*!)

We had looked for several days online and at thrift stores for a bookcase to match that my Mom could get for his room, but couldn't find one that was solid wood.  We went to an furniture store that had all 'raw' furniture, that still needed to be finished, and got him a 6' bookcase to stain at the same time.

We matched the stain as close as we could to his crib set (that will turn into a toddler and full bed eventually too)

I couldn't convince my husband that the rope pulls were awesome, so we painted the existing knobs black after we sanded them down really well.

I hung them upside down so that I could spray paint them on all sides.  I used some old (cheep) spray paint,  because I figured that the if the knobs wore, it would fit in well.

(sorry for the crappy photos)

I love the way it turned out!