The apartment complex that surfgirl and I live in has dumpsters that rival almost any college dumpster. You can find some pretty interesting things. We’ve been needing a dresser for sometime, but it hasn’t been a priority. When surfgirl saw this one, we decided to pick it up (along with 17 pennies that dropped out) and take it back home to paint over it.

We had a sander that we used to clean off the spilled, stuck on stuff and make it even. Eventually surfgirl decided to do the whole thing and just stain the wood again. But after getting 90% done, we realized the wood didn’t match real well and went back to our original idea to paint it. That was a frustrating learning experience.

We picked up some whitish mis-colored gallon of paint and got it to the color wanted, also picked up a cheap base paint, along with cheap brushes. Surfgirl got it in her head to slap some polyurathane on it to protect it, I wasn’t too keen on that, but what do I know.

We picked up some wooden knobs, since I don’t like the door hanger look it previously had. All in all, the free Dresser took 66.58 to paint and fix up. The polyurathane top looks horrible, so we will be painting over it.

I may have been able to pick up one at a garage sale, but I still might have had to buy the paint and such to fix it up. However, overall it looks good to me, I still consider it almost free.

before and after