Intervention!

Help me. I am in a decorating quandary.

About a month ago we found this dresser on Craig's list. I was perusing the free section of Craig's list and saw this gem. I loved the seeming strength of it with the six legs, and I loved the shape of the legs. Someone in this house should have shapely legs.

I really wanted to act on it, but I honestly had no idea where we would put it. A short while later Kevin yelled down from the office, "Did you see that free dresser on Craig's list?" I like to call that a green light, we are simpatico. Many times I see great free items on Craig's list, and I have to control myself because I could easily fill this house with furniture like one of those people on the A&E show Hoarders. Oh, my.

We contacted the owner and set up an appointment to go and pick up the dresser. When we saw it we knew that we had hit the jackpot. This sucker is solid wood, not particle board. Kevin suggested we use it as a television stand in the family room. I bristled at the thought for one reason only. We had bought a beautiful armoire when we lived in North Carolina.

I have not yet chronicled here why we moved or my feelings concerning our move back to New Jersey, and I won't now because I will become all maudlin. I will only say that the armoire represented our life there and the thought of getting rid of it would take some getting used to, and some letting go of the past. I have been doing that recently and decided that we should use the dresser.

We moved the armoire out and the dresser in. From the beginning I had the thought to paint it black. Or white. Or maybe green. Or possibly leave it in its original wood. Clearly, I have no idea what to do with it. Indecision is a new neighborhood for me. I am very good at making decisions and going with them. But this dresser...it confounds me. So I need your help.

What should I do with it? And don't say, "Take clearer pictures of it." I am half blind in the morning.


I am open to anything. Painting. Sanding. Refinishing. Changing the hardware. So please, hit me with your best ideas. I know the knobs are broken, we have the missing pieces. I was thinking of using these drawer pulls from Anthropologie on the top drawers and them doing something different with the ones on the bottom so that we don't have glass overkill.


Help!

Please.

Thank-you.