One of the sucky parts of being a military family is that you learn to say goodbye to people frequently. People are always coming and going, and it seems like as soon as you make a great friend, they're moving on to something else or it's your time to go. Sometimes that cycle can have its advantages though, like when someone is moving to Germany and has some old furniture they're getting rid of. We scored a pair of short 3-drawer dressers, one skinny and one fat, that I'm going to refinish and turn into a toy box and an end table. They're pretty rough right now, but when I'm all done, the toy box will be a deep green with chalkboards on the sides and the end table will be a dark brown. Woohoo for free furniture and repurposing!!!!
Dresser we used:
Minus two drawers, plus a new piece of wood for a shelf:
My materials: Chalkboard paint, regular paint and a piece of wood
Spartan Green Paint!
Taped off a rectangle on each side with painter's tape to make the chalkboards within:
Finished product:
Front view - note the leaf drawer pulls!
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