Furniture Is Expensive

Title says it all really.  Carly and I have recently found a brand new town home to purchase as our own!  So excited!  It is being built and will be done around March-ish.  They say March but we probably won't move in until April.  Anyway the point is that with our brand new bigger place we need new furniture of course.  Another new path for us.  Checking prices here and there we found that buying new furniture feels almost as expensive as buying our new house.  We don't need a lot of furniture but there are a few pieces we need.  Storage is a huge thing for us so more storage is a must.  Having that in mind we found a couple of things.

Carly had been scouring the classifieds for something that we could possibly make our own.  She found this old 9-drawer dresser for $40 on Craig's List.  Sounded like a good deal and seeing it in person later the next day we had to have it.  We handed him the $40 and he said "Oh, I thought I put it up for $30, here's some change I don't quite have $10 is that OK?"  Heck yeah it's OK!  We expected to pay $40 and paid $35.  Awesome.  It had a couple of broken drawers and the paint job was terrible!  Still, it was a great deal and we had high hopes.

The second part was a whole project in itself.  Carly found plans for building these shelves that would go behind a sofa, or pretty much anywhere, made out of MDF board and with a wood trim.  My dad has the tools and was willing to help us with this project and after a trip, or five, to Home Depot we were ready to build!

After cutting, nailing, gluing, sanding, priming, painting, for what felt like a lifetime and over the course of a weekend our project was complete!  Below are the final results.  Sadly we didn't take any "Before" pictures for comparison but imagine the dresser with a terrible dark blue paint job.  Both of them are now white and wonderful.  Wow that sounded cheesy, either way they look great and we are really happy with how they turned out.

gg

Eric