before and after

recently we changed out are large black ikea wall unit of an entertainment center and did something i am totally and completely in love with!  i did like our old one because it had so much open shelving to decorate but having something smaller and bright has made the room look so much bigger and open, which i love!  not to mention the style of this very old dresser is much more me and when i walk downstairs in the morning and see how happy and bright our living space looks i can't not smile about this lovely piece in our home.  

the only before picture we got that thankfully brian remembered to take.  the two missing drawers did come with it but he had just taken them out since that was our plan.  

we got the thing for twenty bucks off of craigslist and thanks to brian and his dad it turned into this with a lot of work.  it needed lots of sanding, new drawer guides, new wood to make the missing drawer spaces actual shelves, and i think a couple of the drawers were fixed as well.  between those things and the paint i am SO glad we did not spend more than we did on it.  although if we would have found one for more it probably wouldn't have been as much work brian says.  but i know it wouldn't be as old and as cool as the one we were lucky enough to find!