Hello! I spent most of the afternoon working on the cabinet of drawers.
Sensibly I took all the drawers out first before we moved the main bit to the back veranda. It was still heavy, but it wasn’t impossible for me this time!
The card dividers alone had a lot of weight.
I thought the best place to work on it was out the back so I could brush off all the spiders, webs, dirt and whatnot.
Looks slightly disastrous from the bottom!
The back has an area of disintegration. Shouldn’t be too hard to remove and replace.
One side of the unit is a nicely finished timber and the other side is just raw – I suppose wherever it lived it had another unit right beside it so the maker didn’t see the point in making that side attractive.
Once cleaned off of most debris, I got some furniture polish and buffed things up a bit.
Meanwhile, back in the shed, we put the second unit away for now. If we can’t think of a good place/use, then cleaning it up and fixing them up and selling them on would be the thing to do.
Jeff helped put the unit inside and I got to and started cleaning out the drawers. A three fold process… a good scrubbing down dry with a brush, then a bit of a wash with a damp cloth, then the front got a dose of polish.
Times by twenty – I was there for a while!!
There were some odd little things in there – explainable things like paperclips… and unexplainable like above!
As mentioned… oodles of dividers
The drawer bottoms were made out of a chip board – most were in ok nick, but a few were a bit manky… or in this ones case, a big bit manky!! I didn’t bother trying to clean… I just knocked the bottom out. It wasn’t coming in the house!
I want to get a new set of drawer pulls too. Jeff said he thought I should leave these to keep with the rustic look. I think they just look rusty. A quick look online and they will be quite easy to get hold of.
A slight jigsaw puzzle which I have failed a bit on – because its been handmade a long time ago… not all the drawers fit in every sliding space. Of course I didn’t note which ones went where when I took them out.
I have all in but one that won’t slide home.
Tomorrows challenge.
I cleaned up some spare timber we had floating about and just laid them across the top so I can kinda use that space
Now I need to start madly saving more seeds to fill it!!
Hope you had/have a great Saturday!
Cheers!
What a grand find especially for such avid gardeners!!you did a masterful job of cleaning. Love your blue salvia🍅🌽🥒🥦love from Ga
Thank-you Linda! I can’t wait to start moving my seeds into it! The restoration can happen in stages later. I love that Salvia too – at this time of year its magnificent. This year its restricted because of this tree thats growing over it a lot… its grow more than twice the size than the label said… hmmmm 😀 xxx
It is a beautiful piece!!
Thanks Janet!! I am so glad I persisted and got it!! Jeff commented this evening as he was walking past it bringing in the wood how much he liked it.
Very much looking forward to putting in my seeds!!
That looks beautiful. My seeds are in a shoebox…
Thanks Hazel! I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. Was just a matter of finding the right piece! Right now my seeds are in a couple of very unorganised boxes under a sideboard. Will be less of an eyesore to empty them and take them away!! 🙂
Hello Lisa,
Is the “unexplainable thing” a wasp nest?
And all of your hard work on the seed saver looks great!
Hi Amy – I think wasp nest a pretty reasonable suggestion. There wasn’t much to it, but goodness knows how long its been there. The unit was being used in the mid 60’s according to some dates on cards I found left behind in it!! And thank-you! I am loving it 🙂