Poverty Breeds Creativity

Please excuse any typos in this post - one of my cats has decided that the spot between the monitor and the keyboard is kitty nirvana and has firmly ensconced his ample flesh in that space, which occasionally spills onto the keyboard.

But to the point - in my lovely new flat that I adore, all colorful and patchwork, I have craigslisted and refinished a fair bit of furnishings due to the poverty that purchasing this flat has created. This last week found me craigslisting and refinishing a small dresser to hold all my linens, which until this moment have been housed on a chair in the bedroom.

The nicest couple I've met in quite a while had painted this dresser to go in their 3 month old daughter's room, but they were moving and it no longer fit. So for $35 I (and Josh's yellow hatchback) took it off their hands:


While I enjoy the color scheme they chose, it doesn't quite work with our red bedroom. So I painted it white and finished the faux bamboo trim in black:



Then thanks to a couple sheets of Snow & Graham wrapping paper and a big jar of mod podge, I added the red poppies to the party:



After a thorough drying, the dresser is now happily living in our bedroom, protecting our linens from an onslaught of cat fir...



Thank you, poverty, for inspiring a new fondness for reuse.