Some of you will have noticed the top of a dresser in my header, so thought I would tell you about it.
This a an ebay find, I'd been looking for something a bit special for the blank wall in the Orangery and then I spotted this. I showed it to my hubby who didn't like it at all, saying it was too fancy, but that didn't stop me. I keep looking at it. Then I measured the space between the wall lights and wasn't sure if it would fit as dresser said it was 131cm and my space was 131cm too :-(
But I couldn't get it out of my mind, so I emailed the seller and asked her to measure that exact spot across where lights go and she came back with 130cm! Fantastic! It would fit.
I realised the seller lived in Hove and my HQ is also in Hove, so I asked the seller whereabouts she lived and it turned out to be less than a 2 minute walk from my office, so I just had to go and see it and of course once I'd seen it I was smitten and just had to have it. I gave a deposit and said I would sort out delivery with hubby.
That was the hard part, he wasn't that keen as he didn't really like it anyway. So I couldn't pin him down to a day to borrow the van and go and get it. Over a week went by and he wouldn't give me a time, then he said Thursday evening, so I tell the seller that day, then he couldn't do, I was so disappointed. he eventually agreed on Monday the next week and we did collect it then.
The seller is an amazing person, very artistic and lives in an amazingly creative, decorative home which she opens for Open House Art month in the summer.
I wish I had her skill. She bought this old dresser and completely reburbished it into shabby chic and I Love it! Hope you do too!
5 comments:
it's amazing what you can do with things. Your dresser is lovely.
A absolutely love it. I meant to make a comment about it on your last blog but forgot. I am glad your perseverance paid off. I am green with envy. However I have no where to put it even if it were mine.
As a "Dresser" fan myself, I love this dresser. You have made a wonderful "find". I love to sit over a cuppa and look at my pine dresser which I bought when we first got married 32 years ago, the blue and white china sparkling on it, it reminds me of my grandmothers dresser. These memories bring back happy times. Enoy your dresser and I wish you the very best of good health to enjoy it for the next 300 years [or so]!
IE
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Thank you IE, I too just love to sit with a cuppa and look at my dresser
Hello Muddie,
Wow.! what a beautiful Dresser, lucky you. It will look lovely in your new Orangery Muddie, I love Dressers, the one you have chosen is soo pretty.
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