Recently I discovered Facebook Marketplace (not sponsored!) while on my phone.  I love it!  It’s like craigslist, but I find it easier to search, easier to upload a listing, and you can limit the radius you’re willing to go to pick something up.  I spotted this dresser – a drexel, that had been painted using chalk paint.  Have you done that before?  I am tempted to try it!  Anyway, we went  to take a look.  They had done such a great job restoring it – the drawers all work perfectly.  It was $260 – which is so much cheaper than anything I was looking at online.  Funny enough the couple that restores the furniture lived in a house that we had looked at when we were house hunting.  It was way too much work for us, but they have restored it into a total knock out.  We ended up getting an armoire to make into a wine cabinet/storage that we spotted – I’ll be sure to share that soon!  JB is so relieved we finally have a proper dresser in our room.  When we first moved in we made a list of all the things we needed to purchase, and all the things that needed TLC in the house.  A new dresser for our room was first on the list.  Two and a half years later, it is finally getting crossed off The List.

Other things I’m hoping to do to our room:

get a new fan – ours is so so old. and unfortunate looking!

raise the curtain rods- I always think it’s amazing what this does to a room.

replace the wooden blinds with a bamboo shade/roman shade – do you have some you love??

Add in some art work

Will keep you posted on the progress!  And if you’re looking for furniture, FB marketplace may be a good spot to check (:

ps:  if you ever need to laugh – this story and this girl cracks me up about her craigslist finds.  I feel like we could be related.