...Is one woman's treasure! I found this wonderful thing in a yard sale for $2. It's about chest high on me (I'm 5'6") and the minute I saw it I knew what I was going to use it for. It was a sickly shade of pink and was pretty banged up but that didn't deter me in the least. It also had some markings in the middle of the shelves that made me think it might have had drawers at some point. This is not fine American craftsmanship, it's clearly something someone with less than stellar woodworking skills put together; the wood doesn't quite meet at the corners, nail heads are sticking out in places (tried to bang them in, but they refused), but it's very sturdy and pretty heavy. It had a million tack holes in the sides, and I can only assume some little girl had it in her room and was tacking pictures to it. I like its banged-up-ness, it has personality. Still, I wasn't having that pink. I debated about it for a couple of weeks. It could have been purple, and I already had purple paint (of course haha) but for some reason it had to be green. It just couldn't be anything else,. So green it is, a shade that was called "lettuce alone". I will also use that green, AND the white, in finishing the little bureau I bought two years ago (wow), whose time is coming very soon. I might add that the paint cost me more than what I paid for both pieces of furniture.
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