Repurposed Buffet

Because we have our booth @Myrtle Jane's, we are always on the look-out for big furniture w/ potential.  This particular buffet was a great bargain ($10.00) w/ a lot of potential! But it needed a lot of work too.  It had water damage on the sides and back.  The inside shelves were warped and falling apart.  The front looked fairly good considering what the rest of it looked like.  AND it was missing 10 knobs/handles.  David took the back off and replaced it and the interior shelves. I think I stared @ this piece of furniture for about 3 weeks. I couldn't bring myself to paint it. Finally,  I realized that I had to paint it b/c it has too much damage to sell "as is".  Next to decide on a color.  I thought white but once it was painted I didn't love it. Then I decided to paint it a light turquoise color, didn't love it either.  I distressed it and let the wood and white show back through the turquoise and then we were getting closer to what I wanted.  But it still needed a brown glaze to make it right. 

I had ordered pulls from Amazon and paid .78 each so that made me happy! I had to drill new holes for the new pulls and plates to cover the existing hole were ordered as well. They cost around $1.15 each.  So now the hardware costs more than the Buffet, but that's okay.

So here is how we found it....

 

 

This photo is of the side after the bubbled veneer was peeled off. The other side looks pretty much the same. Now you see why we had to paint.  This piece was very heavy.  By the end, I LOVED it and actually tried to find a place to fit it into my home.  But no more room and nothing that I am willing to part with right now to make room.   So below is the finished piece placed in the booth.  It stayed for about an hour and sold! It's gone and now I have another big hole in my booth.  But that's a good problem to have and we'll fill it soon w/ something else that has a story.  I often wondered how this piece got sooo much water damage.  I kept thinking about Katrina and all the water damaged furniture that came out, where did all of it go? The Landfill?? Oh I hope some of it got new lives like this one did.  I spent months thinking over this piece. I think David was thinking that I had decided to keep it and was waiting for me to tell him where we were going to make it fit.   It's a great piece of furniture and I hope the person who purchased it will know how special it is. 

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