22nd February 2024
It’s not getting much better at the moment, sleep eludes Kelli again, I almost hate bedtime.
She finally went off to sleep at 3.00am and awoke at 7.00am, meaning we both got four hours. Despite that, it was a sunny day, and I had plans for a productive day.
There was a story about a dresser that was advertised on Marketplace for twenty five dollars that Kelli responded to. She asked if they were fixed on the price. The reply from the seller was “Yes, isn’t it cheap enough” a curt response, and then they blocked her. That doesn’t happen very often, although we’ve done it a few times.
Anyway this morning I found the posting, but the price had changed to “Free”, so I responded.
After a while I notice the posting was now “ Pending”. In the meantime Kelli, using another account had a response that if we could pick it up within the hour, it was ours.
Now breakfast was on the go, so I had to go solo.
I drove to a storage facility on the North side. Kelli had written down the code to get through the gate, so I punched in the numbers, but up came “invalid number” I tried it again, but the gate would not open. Luckily there was someone coming out, so I sneaked in whilst the gate was up, a flaw in the security, I discovered.
Driving around the rows of lock ups, I came across the person who was selling the piece.
It was six feet long, which is the maximum length that will fit in the truck, but taking the drawers out made it a bit easier to load.
As soon as I got back home breakfast was ready, I needed that.
Afterwards I was keen to inspect the piece a bit closer. It was a good make in America, very thick looking drawer fronts typical of old traditional dark stained furniture. Kelli noticed that the front face of the front with all the thick details was a plastic moulding. I have come across this before, but I was really surprised that a reputable manufacturer would use this method, and get away with it.
This was the first job, remove the plastic moulding, with a lever and some wedges I was able to ease the moulding off. It was held on with nails, applied through a plywood drawer front panel, which was in decent condition.
With a few nail holes filled, the plywood now becomes a neater drawer front, which will transform the piece.
Another Lifetime to go 