![]() ![]() I decided I was only going to do a ‘less invasive’ refinish of this dresser, mostly because I’m impatient. ![]() The stain didn’t match the current stain, our sand paper was too fine, the refinisher I knew we had had evaporated since the last project and the wood putty had hardened due to a half opened can. The tools and products I did have were not quite the exact tools and products I needed. I thought we were all good on tools and shouldn’t need to buy anything. This project took twice as long as it should have.īeing that we are still in remodel mode, we have a lot of tools around, including a battery powered nail gun (that I was super excited to get to use to give my drawers a little more stability) and also a plethora of leftover stains, paints, sandpaper, and other products from previous DIY’s or failed attempts at a DIY. ![]() And the time for things to dry? Double the factory recommended time amount due to living in SoCal humidity. And the space issue, dictated in the previous paragraph just irked everyone, including me, because I had to completely clean up every time I needed to take a break to let things dry. He was super irritated that I took on the project and vowed not to help me with it, no matter how ridiculous I looked trying to figure out how to get the battery off the nail gun and no matter how much of a piecemeal, amateur job I did of getting the drawers to not tip out. I thought I could rely on him to help me with fixing the drawers. This was my project that now had to be everyone’s project because it required expertise I didn’t have and space that was not just mine, but shared. Which brings me to Snafu #2: Time + Space to get’er done And I like it, so poo poo on those who say waterfall dressers are boring.) (And that’s what I intend on it doing in my house too. Some were fancier than others with chevron or tiger lined veneer + detailed corners and bases. Every home, apartment or hotel had them in some fashion. Some people loathe these 1920’s + 30’s waterfall dressers. What’s one man’s junk is another woman’s treasure. Can’t guarantee either of those, but I definitely saved the junk pile from one more item. I may have saved an old woman from rolling in her grave and I may have saved the planet from one more tree being harvested. I got lucky and found a piece of history that was on it’s way to the junk pile. I problem solved my way through every single one and learned a lot in the process. Hopefully you can learn something from both and don’t let those snafu’s bring you down. What follows in this post is a few DIY triumphs and a lot of DIY snafu’s. If anything, I could just put it right back on craigslist and make a couple bucks, right? Right. Needless to say, this dresser landed in my garage. Maybe, just maybe, I got a little too excited at the word FREE in the ad and ended up biting off a little more than I could chew. ![]() So, when I found this ad on craigslist, I switched from Mid Century minded to 1920’s Art Deco and went and scooped this up out of someone’s yard 30 minutes before the trash haulers were going to take it to the dump. That being said, Mid Century furniture never quite fits my DIY budget of well, $15. These are never cheap unless the seller has no idea what they have on their hands. I’m a Mid Century kind of gal, so I mostly look for pieces from that era. ![]()
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