I have a chest just about like that, that I got out of someones barn, it was painted blue and under the blue was white. After a lot of work, it came out great, it's now my coffee table.

It's under Monkey. lol


I have gotten a lot of my antiques from yard sales or something like that. I got a dresser for $5 that from the outside looked bad, all painted scratch up etc. After stripping it, it was solid oak and even had the imprints of those old Ben Franklin glassed on the top, where someone must have set them everyday. It was so neat looking. Then I got a side by side out of am old horse stable, that I just love to death.

But my best find, that everyone thinks I'm nut for liking, is an old kitchen table, that looks so beat up. But I had an antique dealer come out one day and he went nuts when he saw it. Turns out it was an old puritan table and those are very rare to find now days. Puritan's didn't believe in making things that last, so to find one is special. It might look ruff to most.......but I love it.

I didn't know you liked antiques. Something else we can do one day, besides the mall. I'm an antique nut!! My goal is to have everything in my house antique, except the couch. Antique couchs never look comfortable.