Furniture Stories

This weekend we do have some interesting furniture stories and pictures to share with everyone. We did not have much luck shopping for nursery furniture over the last several months so we have instead turned to good old Craigslist. Joella and I have similar taste, so we have not been argueing, just endlessly searching. Well we finally found something that we liked on Craigslist and now it is sitting in our front room (thanks again for helping me move it Jim!) waiting for progress on the nursery. There is not much space in the front room and the crib is not put together yet, so don't expect much from the pictures.

The dresser has a changing table skirt on top and the armoire is barely visible on the right. The crib is made of the same wood and has sides that have a sleigh type pattern. Joella and I will put together the crib in the nursery once it is ready so don't expect completed pictures for a little while. This wood also somewhat matches her Nana's rocking chair so that will all look really nice once we get new pads for it.

The other furniture story involves Nana's old cedar chest. I snuck it out of the house over a month ago when Joella went on her first robot trip and Joella didn't catch it missing until early last week. I told Joella that I found someone to fix the lock (it accidentally got locked once many years ago and they had to break the wood in order to get it back open) and that they would be done in a couple of weeks. Well...I did have them fix the lock (they glued the wood back together and put a decorative button in the lockhole), but I also had them patch all of the veneer chips and completely refinish the chest...

The woodworking store really did an excellent job and the cedar chest turned out better than I could have expected. And don't worry everyone, all of Nana's creations are safely stored away and they will shortly be placed back into the cedar chest until reunion time! Remember to also keep praying that Joella has a good doctor's visit in June so she can still travel to the reunion.

As far as the end of the story goes, Joella was very pleasantly suprised and never expected a thing. It is always fun when I can sneak one by her.