Before & After

I have a stack of books and magazines and a few small projects next to my bed. At night I usually put on a movie (or Scrubs for the 80th time) and unwind with a book, work on a project, write in my journal, or flip through a magazine. That pile of stuff is always there. Of course it morphs every few months depending on my current kick. For a while it was all nutrition and exercise books and magazines then came the childbirth and baby related stuff followed by hippie, green earth stuff then knitting books and projects which have currently been replaced by everything written by Dave Ramsey, house plans, and sewing how-to books.
I have resigned myself to the fact that the "to read/to do" pile will perpetually be there so I decided I needed a pretty  place to hide it.
I finally found this awesome dresser at a thrift store last summer for $35 and it was love at first sight. Big enough to hide stuff in and potentially pretty enough to make me smile when I look at it. So it came home with me.

Here is the beauty on the left just home from the thrift store and after a light sanding on the right.  I love the legs on this dresser.

The work in progress. My brother let me use his paint sprayer and my dad let me use his shop. How awesome is my family?

And after! Not bad huh? Except for the dark pictures - it's what I get for being a basement-dweller. The paint is from Ace and the knobs are from Anthropologie. They were bigger than I had pictured in my mind but I really really love them.

Just to recap:

I love how just a coat of paint can do wonders.