Welcome Back!

Our new year started with a *Bang*.
We totalled our truck on a New Brunswick Highway with our two sweet little babes in the back.

Not an ideal way to end an ideal holiday.

We're finally home and we're all okay, but we've been moving through the first weeks of 2012 a little more slowly than usual.

A little more resistant to resuming normal life.

In the spirit of simplicity, this week's post is pretty subdued. Nothing flashy or over the top, just an old dresser with a slight change of color and some new knobs.....giving it new life in a new space.





Jamie and I bought this old dresser at a flea market in Gananoque, just weeks before Winnie was born. We were living in a tiny 1 and 1/2 story house and we were desperate to find a change stand that would do double duty as storage.

We searched for weeks but couldn't find anything with the right dimensions....until we found THIS! I wish I had an original picture.

It was awful.

But it was the size and shape we'd been searching for and it was $25.

We didn't even know how bad it was until it was paid for and being loaded into the back of our VW Golf......It had been buried under mounds of flea market *treasures* that masked the manky smell and wobbly drawers.

Oh, but it was ours and there was a baby on the way.

We managed a quick fix: a serious clean and a coat of white paint we had lying around. I wasn't excited about the handles but, no time(!), they'd have to do. Even the wonky drawers were left, well, wonky.

It seemed ridiculous to bring this dresser with us to the new house....

We have a much nicer dresser/change stand for Pippa.
It was cheap.
It had served it's purpose.
The drawers drove me crazy.
It was ready for the dump.

But then, we realized....we have an entire master bedroom to furnish!

Hmph.

We could use that old dresser after all.

Hmph.

The dresser stays.

Double Hmph.







Jamie fixed the drawers.

He gave it a coat of sophisticated taupe-y neutral paint.

I found antiqued brass pulls and knobs from Lee Valley.

We fancied things up with a mix of Dollar Store and vintage silver trays, turned into magnet boards for our favorite pics and quotes and to-dos.

**I think the magnet boards are my favorite part of the project but the dresser is holding it's own.

I'm happy it's still a part of the family.....for now.