diy kitchen dresser

Break it down! (Music breaks down) Stop, Hammer time! ..

Does it not have any redeeming features?

Are you going to trash it and bin it?

Photo please......

its rotted away at the back and thats its most redeeming part! anyways stated with a sledgehammer last night and try and finish it tonight.

Big shame really as things have to be really bad before they can' be restored.

I was in a cellar on a survey and there was a painted three drawer chest that had been uses as a work bench.

The handles were painted brown but I knew from the style what the were.
It was fortuitous that I was there as he was going to take it to a bonfire the same week.

Managed to stuff it in the back of my BX and got it to mine.
As I thought, the handles are glass and none broken. They alone were worth saving. Stripped the knobs myself and had the chest dipped

A bit of planing and a belt sander, then some elbow grease with "Briwax" and it is a really nice piece.

It now lives in Sydney as I gave it to my daughter.

Doesn't matter how many times one checks before posting but.....

"Big shame really as things have to be really bad before they can't be restored.

..... what they were".

Also :  .....chest that had been used as a work bench.

Transportation cost to Oz must have wiped out any value?

But I suppose it was in free with a house move load?

Thanks for the additional correction TL.....

Yeah, it wouldn't have made any difference, I suppose, as it was in the total load.

Either way, it's a really nice piece, and means a lot to her to have it.

Another one I have here is a single drawer "hall stand" (I think that's the correct title).

It was in my sister in law's greenhouse for all the time I've known her, and covered in plants that she was propagating.

Must have been seventeen years ago that it was put outside to bin.

The top was completely rotten and it looked a right sorry state in it's peeling blue paint.

I have it here with the new top that I made, and then beat the **** out of to distress.

It's a really nice thing with the "drop handles" that I burnished..... Photos to follow.

I'd probably do more woodwork if I had an empty garage with a power source but it is full of stuff and has no electricity.

I've always loved working in wood, since a "nipper", when I got my treadle fret saw.