Furniture - Before & After

So I promised I would share the "before & after" photos of my furniture piece from my 3-dimensional design class....so here they are.

It was a difficult task--to destruct what took many hours to construct. Specifically because it has sentimental value in the memory of the piece I was duplicating. I painted the inside a red-orange color, which was significant because the original chest of drawers was that color. Also, I always enjoyed opening the drawers and looking inside, so I wanted to draw attention to the inside for the deconstruction portion.

All that to say, it was an interesting project!

Furniture

In my 3-dimensional design class, we had to build a piece of furniture from our childhood that we no longer have or live with. So I decided to choose the red chest of drawers in my childhood home that my mom lovingly referred to as "the conversation piece." It didn't really match any of the other furniture in our formal living room, but it had a style and class of its own. My mom always said that everyone should have at least one piece of furniture that doesn't really fit simply to start a conversation.

The chest of drawers still remains in the house. I think of my mom every time I look at it. So here is my version of it, sans the red finish. The hard part is going to be deconstructing it, which is also part of the assignment. The plan is to saw it in two halves diagonally, turn it "inside out" so-to-speak and paint the inside red, just like the real chest. We'll see if I can even cut it apart after the 15 hours of work I put into it constructing the darn thing...