Will and I quickly accumulated six dressers when we moved to Lexington this fall that looked a bit awkward lining the walls of our two bedrooms. To remedy this, we decided to re-purpose my grandmother's dresser into a kitchen island. Had I thought to blog about this before starting the project, I would have taken a picture of it before the stripping and painting got underway, but just imagine a dark wood dresser with fancy pulls and a big mirror floating above it between two carved spindles. We removed the mirror and top, stripped the finish, gave it about five coats of white paint and finished it off with a butcher block top and pulls that match our cabinet.
We finished it just in time to host our first Thanksgiving and I don't know what we would have done without the extra space.
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| New home to my baking equipment |
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And the perfect spot to display our shaved brussel sprout
and manchego cheese salad, apple pie and sugar cream pie |
The next dresser is destined to become a handsome filing cabinet.
I've been watching Craigslist for just such a dresser to do this very thing with! I love it!
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