I bought this dresser at an unfinished furniture store back many moon ago when my kids were little, and it lived through a lot while they were growing up. For instance, my oldest daughter, she-who-must-not-be-named, (Theresa) had this terrible desire to write her name on things with crayon, or sometimes with marker. Being a very intelligent girl, she figured out that writing her OWN name would get her into a lot of trouble, and she didn't really want to get her brother or her sisters into that much trouble either, so the name of her cousin Amy Fassett was found on the backs and sometimes the fronts of our furniture. She figured I would never do anything to Amy, so she got away with it. I didn't know for years that it was Theresa that did it. Apparently she struck at least once at her Grandmother's house, too.
Anyway, I didn't take pictures before I started working on it, but I have some from in the middle. We added that decorative piece on the back and put the little curly things on there, and then added a board on top that I would cover with vinyl. This is before the stain.
Some close ups of the curlies. I don't know the technical term, sorry.
And a very nice artsy shot by Emily of the brads I nailed all along the edge of the vinyl on the top.
The great thing about these knobs was that they were only $2 apiece, which was awesome because I needed 16 of them.
Finished product again, at it's new home in Colorado with Emily. Sorry, Amy, but I sanded your name off.
