This morning, for some weird reason, I really got the cleaning bee in my bonnet. I set about sorting out all my kitchen cupboards, chucking out things that were out of date and decanting half bags of stuff into jars.....once that was all done I realised I needed more storage for all my baking stuff (have REALLY got into making my own bread now!) and for other bits and bobs.
I thought about it for a bit and then decided to give myself a bit of a job for an hour or so!
This chest of drawers was in the attic and was absolutely filthy inside and out. The top and the sides were black and the drawer fronts were all speckled and grimy.
I decided to give it a damn good scrub and see how it came up....
Part way through the clean up, the top and sides had been done but look at the yuck on the drawer fronts!!
I really hated the drawer pulls too so I removed some handles from a broken old chest of drawers we're getting rid of and put them on it instead and...
Voila!!
Eventually I might re-paint them but for the moment I'm kind of liking the "knocked about, slightly discoloured, battered" look....
The drawer knobs were a bargain buy from Camden Market, I think they were 50p each or something...
I even put a little hanging up thing on the side so Row has somewhere to put her apron!
All in all I'm well chuffed with my morning's work and now have a lovely piece of decent storage in my kitchen that pretty much cost me nowt!
Happy face :D
Well done making such a beautiful chest of drawers (I'm pretty sure that cleaning it and putting on extra knob thingies is practically building it from scratch....) I'm such a sucker for "shabby chic" furniture- especially anything with mis-matched drawer knobs. I think there's something very therapeutic about scrubbing old furniture found in the loft and giving it a new least of life. And more room for your baking things! Hurrah :)
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