vanity before and after

We made a trip to Lowe's on Sunday.  Oh how I've missed that place.  We visited there at least once a week in the midst of moving/remodeling our home.  We've taken a much needed hiatus from Lowe's, but I was feeling the pull back there.  We decided to re-paint our awesome find of a vanity that has been sitting in our garage since the middle of summer.  It was back in July when we had been taking a drive in the neighborhood (mainly just to annoy my friend Abby who really wanted to just get back to the house, but when Matt is driving there is never a dull moment) and found the perfect piece.  

We had talked about buying a vanity for our bedroom for me to get ready.  I wanted a vanity with drawers all the way down the sides and a spot in the middle for me to sit.  On our casual cruise around the neighborhood, we passed a pile of furnuitre by the sidewalk in front of a neighbor's house with a "free" sign.  Amidst the rubble, I found my dream vanity.  It was perfect.  All it needed was some sanding and repainting and it would be my vanity.  We loaded it up into the back of Byron (Matt's buick) and brought it back to the house. We stuck it up against the wall and that is where is stayed...for months.

Riding home in the trunk with my beauty

Vanity before...

Matt actually brought it up this weekend.  He said we might as well wait until next Spring to re-paint it since it was starting to get cooler.    That was until Sunday rolled around and we couldn't be in the house any longer.  A trip to Lowe's and some new-found motivation brought us to this...

A little demolition to take out the middle shelf...more room for my legs

Before

We took all the shelves out, sanded them and the rest of the vanity, and then wrapped them in newspaper so we could get to work with the spray paint.

The pretty grey color

The master at work :)

he's so cute

And now for the finished product.  We carried the vanity upstairs after it dried.  We had talked about making the area an entire place for me to get ready.  Matt talked about getting a big mirror and some vanity lighting for the wall.  He even wanted to do a dimmer switch for the light so I could adjust it.  I thought it would be awhile before this all was completed.  Well, I came home from teaching my class on Monday afternoon to this...

ALL DONE!

Isn't he fantastic?! He had to get up in the attic to do some re-wiring for the light which involved disassembling the closet system (which was fixed when I got home too). All that is left to do is for me to fill the drawers, get my little mirror up on the top, hang hooks on the adjacent wall to hang my blow dryer and straightener, and get all my hairspray and other getting-ready goodies on the top.

I LOVE the way it turned out.  I spent some time looking on Pinterest (my new found obsession) searching for a good color for the vanity. It turned out exactly the way I wanted.  We may even go search for some cool knobs to put on the drawers.  Right now there is a little nook under each to open, but it will spruce it up a bit if we add knobs.  One man's trash is another's treasure!  

I am very proud that we got it done!  Go Team Dunn!