One project down....

I had a dresser that my mom picked up from the side of the road years ago, which I was using to store all my sewing patterns and fabric swatches. It was pretty beat-up, but it had a cool veneer pattern and fancy pulls, so being the overly-ambitious fool I am, I decided to refinish it. Started... end of March/beginning of April of last year, and I am finally basically done (just gotta get some new screws for the pulls - the ones I bought to replace the missing ones are the right diameter but the wrong threading)

Before (minus the one drawer I had started scraping finish off of):



After:


It's not perfect, but it was never going to be - the base was just too beat up. Water damage, missing chunks of trim, and I'm pretty sure there was once veneer on the top, because there was still glue remnants there, and the top seems to be plain poplar (which is what the drawer fronts are under the veneer). Still, a pretty decent glow-up for a 70+ year old dresser (the company that made it merged with Thomasville in 1961 and stopped using their original name, so it's at least that old). I made a lot of mistakes, which is why this has taken a year to finish, but I learned a lot and am ultimately glad I didn't take the quick'n'dirty route of just sanding it down and painting it.