$2.00 Find

On Saturday, Jocelyn and I drove down to the local grocery to return a movie. We passed the thrift store in our route and there was a big red sign that advertised "Furniture Clearance". I only had one kid with me and was not in a hurry so I decided to stop. There on the front lawn amidst the other furniture was this solid wood bedside table/dresser. Other than a good layer of dust in was in pretty good, clean condition but the best part about it was it's solid wood construction. I saw the potential it possessed and well...$2.00 later, Jocelyn and I were lugging it to the back of the mini van.

The exact location, use and color that my find would take was constantly changing but I finally decided to use it in the kids room and paint it blue. I didn't think to take a picture of it before I started stripping the paint off of it but here are the before shots.

The dresser on it's side.

The drawers

I wanted something fun and decided on two shades of blue just because I could. I went to Lowe's and found out the color I chose was a whole lot more than the cheaper Lowe's stuff. I should have waited until I didn't have all four kids with me and no time constraints because I had buyer's remorse on the blues I chose. They are more along the lines of IKEA Let's make a statement blue than Pottery Barn kids which I have would preferred but did I mention it cost $2.00? I don't think I really could have gone wrong.

The project took me about 2 days and I was so excited to have it completed that I failed to test things out before I moved it into the kids room. You'll notice that I need to go back and paint the inside of the dresser. The picture makes the lighter blue look white but it's actually like a sky blue or a robin blue and darker blue isn't so bright. It's didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned but I am pretty happy with the results and so are the kids. Kelsey keeps saying, "It's so beautiful". Jackson just wanted it blue for BYU. I am just happy I got it for $2.00.