Thank you so much for all your views, comments and favs!
I guess I should explain a little more about this piece. Many years ago it was relegated to a barn my grandparents owned. I'm not sure why- perhaps for storage- but I think it is far too pretty to have been treated that way! Apparently my father did too. He liked the wood work around the keyholes and the marble top. Although the dresser (I really don't know what else to call it- maybe a chest of drawers? But it's really not a chest.) was in horrible shape- bird droppings, years of neglect, dull wood, missing knobs and so on, he brought it home. My mother immediately told him there was "NO WAY" that :"THING" was coming into the house! So my father put it in the garage and worked on it in there instead of in his basement wood shop. He figured out how to treat the marble top and restored it, even repairing a rather large crack. He removed all the woodwork and sanded it to gently remove the grime and then did the same with all the drawers and framing. (One fun feature of this piece is that the bottom which looks like edging is really a hidden drawer!). He then stained it and put on new knobs. He would not let my mother see it while he was working on it so she had no idea what it was going to look like. Finally the day came for the big reveal. When she saw how he had transformed that ugly duckling into a thing of beauty she burst into tears and profusely apologized for doubting him! It was then moved into our home and became one of my mother's most treasured pieces for many years. When my father passed away it was the one thing I adamantly insisted came to me. Thankfully my sisters were agreeable! So what you see here is a little less than half of the upper drawers and one side of the knobs. I thought I had a picture of it in full but 30 minutes of searching through 10 years of 365 photos has not produced one! Maybe I'll take a quick picture of it tomorrow for you.
Thank you so much for all your views, comments and favs!
I guess I should explain a little more about this piece. Many years ago it was relegated to a barn my grandparents owned. I'm not sure why- perhaps for storage- but I think it is far too pretty to have been treated that way! Apparently my father did too. He liked the wood work around the keyholes and the marble top. Although the dresser (I really don't know what else to call it- maybe a chest of drawers? But it's really not a chest.) was in horrible shape- bird droppings, years of neglect, dull wood, missing knobs and so on, he brought it home. My mother immediately told him there was "NO WAY" that :"THING" was coming into the house! So my father put it in the garage and worked on it in there instead of in his basement wood shop. He figured out how to treat the marble top and restored it, even repairing a rather large crack. He removed all the woodwork and sanded it to gently remove the grime and then did the same with all the drawers and framing. (One fun feature of this piece is that the bottom which looks like edging is really a hidden drawer!). He then stained it and put on new knobs. He would not let my mother see it while he was working on it so she had no idea what it was going to look like. Finally the day came for the big reveal. When she saw how he had transformed that ugly duckling into a thing of beauty she burst into tears and profusely apologized for doubting him! It was then moved into our home and became one of my mother's most treasured pieces for many years. When my father passed away it was the one thing I adamantly insisted came to me. Thankfully my sisters were agreeable! So what you see here is a little less than half of the upper drawers and one side of the knobs. I thought I had a picture of it in full but 30 minutes of searching through 10 years of 365 photos has not produced one! Maybe I'll take a quick picture of it tomorrow for you.
Thanks Debbie!
Thanks Katy!
Obviously it's one I love telling!