It needed work at the time, but it wasn't until the recent move that we got our hands on it. We had the idea of turning this into a wine buffet/station by taking out some of the drawers and replacing with a wine bottle rack. This thing sat in storage for several months and then in our garage for a few more, we finally got serious about refinishing it about 2 months ago. The VERY slow process began of stripping years of varnish and stain and sanding all of the detail spots. Underneath was some pretty wood, we think possibly cherry. We don't have much cherry stained furniture so we went with a dark stain. For the wine rack we found some unique curved wood pieces from World Market and the size of 3 of them next together is a perfect fit for the place where the old drawers were. We also decided to add some tile and underlights to modernize the cabinet. The only thing left to do is find some 3.5 inch cabinet pulls (MUCH harder than you would think) to finish the whole thing off.
We are so glad to have the piece out of the garage and into the house. What do you think?
