Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Kaiya's Dresser

I was in desperate need of a dresser for Kaiya. When we lived in Florida we didn't need to purchase one for Kaleb because we had big beautiful closets with tons of built in organizers. When moving in we decided to keep the dresser Kaiya previously used with the crib and changing table set since it matches. So she needed a new one.

Saturday she and I ventured out to yardsale with hopes of finding something that would work. We found it for $10! An old white dresser with black knobs that needed a repaint job. We brought it home and that afternoon I went to Lowe's for paint. $15 later I had the paint I needed. After getting it painted, it just didn't look right with the black knobs. So I started looking for white knobs. I didn't know how expensive those little boogers are! The whole point of buying a dresser at a yard sale was to get by with spending as little money as possible. So I wasn't a big fan of spending $10+ on white knobs. Fortunately I thought of Habitat for Humanity Restore shops. We have a couple here and they just happened to have white knobs -- for 50 cents each!!!

So here is the finished product -- for a grand total of $30.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, Rachel! I'm so impressed! I hope that Kaiya loves her new dresser. :)

Jennifer said...

I love re-finished furniture! Looks perfect for Kaiya!

ASHENFELTERS said...

It is AWESOME!! Good job mommy!:)

Adrienne said...

Great find. It looks so cute! You need to do a HGTV show someday... :)

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday!!!!!! (I'll be with you in spirit tomorrow morning as we both mutually do the same things in different states. Happy saling too, my friend!) :) PS: look for gift in mail.......