A "New" Armoire for $15

Patience isn't usually my strongest attribute; I will say it paid off in this circumstance!  I had been looking for an armoire for months, but they were always so expensive.  I found this at Goodwill for only $15!

Even the lady working there didn't believe it was only $15... she thought the sticker must have said $75 so she looked it up in the computer system.

Yep!  $15!!!  Now, it didn't start out looking like this.  It was a crazy light peachy colored wood; I just knew it would need to be painted.

I don't have any before pics (they were all lost on the great external hard drive wipe out of 2012).  You'll just have to trust me that it was UG-LY!

I primed it and painted it with a light gray.  Then I glazed it with an espresso-colored glaze and sealed it with Modern Masters dead flat varnish.  That stuff is the best!  It completely knocks down the sheen yet makes the surface durable (and washable).

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I contemplated changing the hardware, but I ended up liking it after living with it for a while.  Maybe one day I'll switch it out

Are you ready to see the inside?  It isn't pretty...

I told you.  But for $15, it will do for now!  AND we just got a new TV so we took the sad little guy out of there.  You can hardly see the gaping hole in the back now.

Here are a couple more pics

you can see the paint coming off a little here from wear and tear over the course of the last year, but I think it gives it more character

See?  I told you that peachy color was bad.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,

Jamie

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