my furniture find...Yay!!

Let me give you a little back story to explain why I am SO HAPPY about my TOTALLY AWESOME furniture find.

I have been looking for something to put by our front door pretty much since the day we moved in. I have tried end tables, book shelves, and tray tables... nothing makes me happy. What I have wanted is a kind of storage solution that had a top were we could put change, keys, charge phones, etc and the underneath to have shelves but I wanted it to have doors and drawers. I saw something at Walmart that was close, but it was black painted particle board (that doesn't excite me to say the least) and they wanted $90 for it~ after tax I'd be paying a hundred dollars for a relatively small storage "cabinet" that wasn't really the color I wanted. Anyway, so my mom gave us some money for our anniversary (oh yeah, it's coming up July 4th we'll have been married 3 wonderful years!) and I decided to use it to purchase something for by the front door so back to the drawing board I went- I almost bought the thing from Walmart- it even went on clearance for $75!! But by the time I decided they were all gone- and can I tell you I AM SO GLAD!!

I decided last weekend that we should hit some thrift stores- check out Goodwill and some of the others in the area to see what they have in the way of storage stuff- I just happened to walk over and look at this piece, thinking it would be way more than I would be willing to pay~ and it wasn't... this buffet and hutch as a matter of fact cost less than that stupid little particle board storage bin thing at Walmart!! (and it's solid wood!!) I'm so excited, not only does it do what I want it also gives me a place to display more things (I haven't decided what I want on it yet, I'm just trying a few things out for right now) but it also has drawers and doors for storage like I wanted. I have all our board games there were we can easily get to them- I'm so excited! I can't wait to finish organizing all the space inside it!!

Anyway, here it is!! and by the way... Thanks mom for the killer anniversary gift... WE LOVE IT!!