Project Description

It takes a keen eye to be able to look at a piece of furniture and see it for it’s potential rather than just at face value. The beauty of re-creating pieces of old furniture is that if you can envision the possibilities, there truly are no limitations of what you can make with a clever design and the right tools.

This was once an old, beat up pine dresser with sticky drawers and a tired facade. Expecting my first little guy at the time, I was putting together a nursery in our very small (Vancouver condo sized small) “den”. This meant multi-purpose pieces of furniture if there was a hope in hell of squeezing in all the necessities, like a change table and a dresser along with the crib.

I found the dresser on Craigslist for $25 bucks and started with the design. I took some measurements of the space it would be living in to determine the size of what I was building, and a list of functions it would need to perform: dresser, change table, cloth diaper storage and shelving.