Quick before and after

I finally did a makeover on my vintage bamboo chest of drawers. Back story on this piece - i'm sure it's a 1970s vintage. My mom bought it (and matching night stand) from a friend of a friend for like $30 when I bought my house. My original bedding was sort of a Mediterranean sea side village design in cobalt blue, bright yellow, a little green, a little pink, etc and the reverse side and the bed skirt were in a two tone yellow diamond pattern. So these yellow bamboo pieces worked out quite well. Plus the chest is HUGE and the storage was awesome.

Here's a before shot of it - when we were in the middle of the living room redo earlier this year. It had been used to store some "stock pile" stuff - behind a rattan three panel screen, but then I ditched the screen and the yellow wasn't working, although I liked the chest. It had potential, just not in yellow.

And another shot of it in the living room. I know - it's so awesome you can't stop looking at it...yeah, me too.

Well, I couldn't bear to part with it and I didn't have anywhere to put it at the Florida house after purchasing a giant Expedit bookcase from Ikea to go on the wall where it was residing. So...off to the cabin it went. 

Here it is today - in it's new home - the upstairs, master bedroom at Robin's Nest.

Black satin - pardon the blue cast from the sun coming in thru the curtains. As soon as we buy a new door i'll have wood blinds on the giant panel of glass and maybe my photos will look better when I take them last minute without paying attention to what i'm doing. Obviously, I need to move the artwork that is now behind the TV. Did I mention Mr. Paisley and I were hauling this thing up stairs (dude...it's HEAVY, even with the drawers out of it!) up there the morning we were leaving to come back home? Yeah, then we had to haul the vintage Singer sewing table down the stairs - its the new TV stand for the living area. I don't think I took a picture of that...go figure. It works out MUCH better this way - more on that later, when I have photos to add to the story. 

Next time we go up there we'll be replacing the drawer slides and I might distress the bamboo trim a little just to make it pop. Then again, I might just leave it as is...

I'm always paranoid that friends will accidentally pack up some of our clothes that stay there. Now with two dressers we'll just leave one empty for company and leave our stuff in the other. No more sharing!  Problem solved for the cost of 2 cans of black spray paint and 1 can of matte clear coat. 

** and I totally just noticed that Mr. Paisley switched the drawer pulls on two of the drawers. LOL seriously - how did I miss that?! the 2 top drawers are actually slightly smaller than the bottom 3. Thus they had different pulls. Which I just notices are on drawer number 2 and number 5, instead of 1 and 2. I'll have to remember to switch those on the next trip. 

Did you go to Big Lots on Sunday?

I said I would and I did - dragging Mr. Paisley along kicking and screaming! We had our usual breakfast at IHOP - only we were early. Evidently much earlier than usual because A) there was hardly anyone there and B) 3 of the servers commented on it being early for us LOL. Yeah...they know us there. 

So we headed down to Big Lots - it's not even 10 minutes down the road from IHOP. It was busy! Luckily they open earlier than noon on Sunday. I grabbed my reusable shopping bags, my 20% off coupons and a cart and made a quick loop thru the important sections. First order of business - the Keurig! Well 2 of them. Now as I said, i've been watching them for ever (well, since January anyway) at Big Lots and they were tagged $79 which is what I expected. Then there was another sign that said 'special' $69 - shut up! I grabbed the one I could reach and then impatiently waited for the hubs to amble over to reach one of the 2 that were on the top shelf - yes, there were THREE in the store. I did indeed snag two of them...with the coupon they were about $58 each. For that price, I was getting one for the house as well as the cabin, even though we don't drink coffee. I mean, it does make hot chocolate and hot tea as well...both of which I drink. 

I also grabbed 3 cans of Rustoleum spray paint $3 each before the coupon. Satin Colonial Red, Satin Cream and Satin Espresso. Yummy! I always have spray painting projects. Outside of that, I tossed in 2, 2 packs of disposable 9x13 cake pans with covers. Ever since I changed office locations it's pot luck city. They come in handy.

Did I mention I shoved Mr. P and one coffee maker into a separate line so I could get 2 $20 purchase credits toward my next 20% off coupon? Yep...sure did.