{"id":40209,"date":"2018-11-06T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40209"},"modified":"2018-11-06T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:53:18","slug":"dresser-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40209","title":{"rendered":"Dresser, Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My posts for the next three months will be briefer, but we will try to publish regularly.\u00a0 And\u00a0 I lied last week when I promised to get back to using my good camera instead of my iphone for\u00a0 blog photos.\u00a0 One arm living means only one hand for operating a camera.\u00a0 There is no way I can manipulate a camera and tripod right now with a cast on my right hand almost to my elbow.\u00a0 I am cringing at the quality of the photos, but it cant be helped.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40239\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1936-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser before\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1936-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1936-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1936-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(before)<\/p>\n<p>I knew when we moved into our new place that we would have to add a few pieces of furniture.\u00a0 My friend Beth Harper, the Lone Rearranger, is helping me with furniture placement and picture hanging,\u00a0 She suggested a bow front chest for a spot in the dining room.\u00a0 That very afternoon I found the perfect piece at my favorite local consignment shop.\u00a0 However, it needed some love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40240\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2050-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser before\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2050-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2050-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2050-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to paint it black but sand off the old finish first.\u00a0 When our head painter saw me struggling with the electric sander in our garage this summer, he offered to take the piece to his shop and paint it for me at no charge.\u00a0 I accepted his generous offer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40241\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2698-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser after - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2698-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2698-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2698-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40242\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2701-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser after - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"640\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2701-702x1024.jpg 702w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2701-221x323.jpg 221w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2701-768x1120.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2701-300x438.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40243\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2702-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser after - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"850\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2702-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2702-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2702-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2702-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mannie did such a good job.\u00a0 Before he owned a painting company, he was trained to refinish fine furniture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40244\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2703-911x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse dresser after - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2703-911x1024.jpg 911w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2703-287x323.jpg 287w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2703-768x864.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2703-300x337.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next week we will show you a close up of the pulls\/hardware that we bought for it along with the cool things in the wooden bowl..\u00a0 They are the perfect exclamation point.<\/p>\n<p>Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My posts for the next three months will be briefer, but we will try to publish regularly.\u00a0 And\u00a0 I lied last week when I promised to get back to using my good camera instead of my iphone for\u00a0 blog photos.\u00a0 One arm living means only one hand for operating a camera.\u00a0 There is no way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40246,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions\/40246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}