I went to a yard sale, late in the day. I wasn't looking for a dresser, and was avoiding any BIG purchases. You see, I can see my DH is getting annoyed with moving furniture, and the overload of the house...even when it is temporary. We do not have a workshop for me to work on my pieces, so they are usually stuck in any available corner of the house, until I sell it. Which, isn't always right away. Anywho...the lady had 2 dressers, and I decided to buy one of them for $10. Afterall, it was only $10. What was I supposed to do? Leave it there? The other one was also $10, but I held back and only bought 1 of them. I went home to get the truck, returned to pick up my 1 dresser, & the lady said I MUST take the other one....for FREE! Well, now I was in a pickle...I proceeded to take her offer, and loaded 2 dressers up on the truck, for a total of $10. My DH is going to KILL me!! lol - But, He'll get over it....eventually!
Before
After
I painted the handles with Brushed Nickel, and the outside of the dresser with a very light grey, and the inside green "oops" paint.
Enter my friend, "C". My friend "C"came to visit, and I was showing off my latest project to her. She saw the inside, and chuckled. I begged her to tell me what the chuckle was for, and she finally revealed why she had chuckled. She used to work for the Ministry of Natural Resources, at a Provincial Park. She was assigned to paint the inside of all of the outhouses. It was a standard color for decades throughout Ontario...."Outhouse Green". The exact green that I had painted the inside of the dresser. I didn't notice until she brought it up...and then realized she was right. It is "Outhouse Green". That Gawd-awful green of the outhouses that were so disgusting, and stinky, nobody used them unless it was an emergency!
