I so wish that I had a before picture of this chest of drawers. My family had this thing growing up, and it eventually ended up in my Mom's barn gathering dust. It was just hideous. It was a horrible yellow, and you would never have guessed it could turn out so beautiful. Brian saw it one day and had a hankering to refinish it, so we took it. He had no idea what he was getting himself into. Underneath that unsightly mustardy-yellow were several layers of both paint and lacquer. He spent day after day putting toxic substances on layer after layer, and after several hours of hard work, he got the dresser down to the original wood. He then simply touched it up with some polyurethane, and voila! A beautiful, country dresser. It's quite old, turns out, and the nails used to put it together were square, which we love. It is now the most prominent piece of furniture in our house, and we just love it.
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