Looking Back

So, my favorite column in Hot Rod Magazine, "Looking Back", is the column in which they dig through obscure photos in the Hot Rod archives to uncover some gem of a snapshot-in-time  that carries some relevance; a photo worth a thousand words.

You can see where the built-in used to be, on the right wall.
Also note the faux box beams, ceiling tiles, linolium floor
and pine paneling. Our attic bedroom looked like a basement
rec-room from the 60's.

And here's the opposite wall, where I moved the built-in to.
Why? Because I find it necessary to do things the hard way. 

 Lately I've been trying to dig through all of our renovation photos to put together our own home-blog version of "looking back", since we skipped the documentation of so many important moments - (in favor of planning a wedding - priorities!)

What I've found in doing so, is that we have a thousand photos worth one word; naivete. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but I do have a few photos to prove that it all worked out. So, for our "Looking Back" entry (Part One), let's look at the built-in dresser that i mish-mash-dissassembled-reassembled with a custom built TV cabinet of my own creation on the other side of the room. In "repurposing" the 1960's built-in, i essentially built a custom cabinet around some marginally-crafted pine drawers...let's take a look back.

The panel to the left of the drawers is actually
a hidden laundry hamper (see above)