Dresser Re-purposing

When Dave and I were first married, we couldn't even make ends meet financially. Things were tight. Really tight. We were in college, and had part-time jobs or full-time 100% commission jobs that didn't pay well. When Dave bought the $300 dresser below, I was very upset. We could barely afford to go to the grocery store. When he got it home, I painted the dresser with some left over black paint that we had in the garage, and eventually changed out the hardware. We put it in our bedroom and used it for storing clothes. It was our only clothes dresser at the time. 

A few years later, when Julia was in the womb, but expected to come soon, the dresser moved into her room. In our little two bedroom home, the second bedroom was actually bigger than our master. It fit better in that room. So, we moved the dresser into the baby's room, and it doubled as a changing station. 

After we moved from that house, we bought different second hand furniture for my girls, and the black dresser became our TV and electronic entertainment cabinet. It held electronic items, vhs tapes, dvds and cords in the drawers.  On top it held a TV, VCR, DVD player and an original Nintendo gaming system.

In our Houston town house, it served as a buffet table and additional storage in our dining room. It held coloring books, kitchen towels, napkin rings, odds and ends, and grocery toys that belong to the pretend kitchen.

Now, the dresser that everyone hates to move (because it's real wood) is back to being an entertainment system in our basement. It now has a TV mounted over it instead of sitting on top of it. It holds a DVD player, blu-ray player, Xbox 360 on top. (It actually still has a VHS player too. We still whip our the VHS tapes from time to time.) The drawers are filled with controllers, remotes, odds and ends and blankets. Because here in the North, the basement stays cool or chilly always!

After all these years, that good ole' black dresser has moved with us from house to house. It's served in many different aspects of our home, and we have needed it over and over again. Now, I'm so thankful that Dave bought this piece of furniture for our very humble abode. We really needed it at the time, and it's been a life saver in every other home we've lived in. I hope it stays with us for quite awhile or longer.

Thanks for reading! Love from my family to yours! -Amber