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!!
Let the sanding begin (sanded completely by hand)
in progress...
time to start staining (hubbies get the dirty work!)
