Have I arrived?!

Have I arrived to join the club with the ladies who do those fabulous projects???? You be the judge! Ha!

Well, Isaiah needed a dresser for his room and I didn't want to spend 70$ or more for a dresser. I went on Craigslist and online yardsale hunt. 2-3 weeks had gone by and I had not found anything. The timing had to be perfect because I have the vehicle but it's full of kids so I wouldn't have any room to go pick up a dresser with a car full of children. I wouldn't have a place to load the dresser.
The day I found this just happened to be on a Saturday and my husband was home to go pick it up for me.

The lady who sold it to me for 25$. She told me it was nothing special and it wasn't even real wood. I could tell by looking at the picture that it was.
I wanted an old dresser because to me it has more character personally and I planned to paint it anyway.
Well, as soon as we got it home. Aaron was anxious to start painting it. I mean anxious!! While he sanded it he wanted me to run to Walmart to get a can of paint. That I did. :)

Speaking of paint I brought the Walmart brand- color place and the finish is flat. The color is asphalt grey . I paid 10$ for that paint and it turned out well. I've used Walmart paint before and never had a problem with it. Its thinner than Glidden which I just recently used. I preferred the color place over Glidden. The Glidden was super thick which I understand why but it was just my personal preference to use the color place now. So remove the shade and go buy some Walmart paint. Very budget friendly when you are on a budget and have a ton of projects to get done as well.

So my husband sanded it down lightly and put two coats of paint on it and that was it. I think he wiped the handles with some sort of finish down but for the most part those are the original color. I will update once I ask him.
I wanted to wipe a black finish over the dresser but he told me no, so I left it alone. Also I did not get very good before pictures because he literally pulled it out of the truck and started going to town on it. It now sits in Isaiah room now- I will link a picture to it. :

Click here to view bubbies-dresser

Anyway, we enjoyed doing this together it was a nice couple thing to do together.
~Kristina~