The Fate of Two Junky Dressers… Furniture Restoration

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I picked up this pair of fully solid wood dressers from an auction for just $1 each (there were no other bidders, meaning I got to take them home at the starting price). When I brought them home, I noticed that one of them must have originally been a cabinet with 2 doors, not a dresser. This was clear because doors were obviously cut into 4 sections and made into drawers; even the rail construction was different from the other dresser. A previous owner must have DIY'd it. As much as I appreciated the creativity, it wasn't something I could leave as-is, and rather than undoing the work, I had the idea of just salvaging the solid wood from the whole piece and using parts of it to add onto the other piece in the form of drop-leaves.
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Is it really loot or just salvage? 🤔

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A loonie for the dressers and the castors were freeeeeeeee! Score! Another beautiful piece. Love your videos.

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[@amybucher5439]

Lovely piece. You have the eye of a skilled designer. It isn’t enough for you to refinish you always add a touch here or there that makes the piece stylish and modern. That is a real talent.

[@andrewcignoni3901]

I love your idea on how to use the angled stops for the drop-down trays. Pretty smart. Love your content. 17:37. Don’t do that. Bleeding usually happens next. Love your stuff.

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I thought the same! Don't hurt your hands! You need them and so do we.

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Me three!!

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The simple rule of thumb(pun intended) is to always have the blade or drill bit going away from your body no matter what. exacto knife, drill. Use a vice, use vice grips, use quick grips to hold your work. It just takes once to make a bad mistake. Ask anyone with 8 fingers.

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[@judithstuart9631]

Great video, thank you

[@hannahpinson4361]

I've always been a fan of channels like this, meaning people that take something old or broken (or both) and try to restore. Something I love about you is that you save more of the material from your projects if it is in decent shape. It's smart from a financial standpoint. Also, you use it to help with your work.

[@cathyjackson5959]

What a WOWSER!!! I Love that you use the noise of various tools!! The dark stain with the natural wood is Gorgeous!!! Who knew you could do the drawer pulls from a dowel?!! I also think I’m looking at chop sticks in a whole new way!!! I Love the chiseling too!! 20:52 Thank you so much!!! ❤️💫❤️

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I enjoy everything about your videos! You have fantastic creative ideas. Your pieces have a really cool aesthetic. Plus your shots, camera angles and editing are super and fun to watch! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing all your talent!

[@joubertcronje35]

Excellent transformation!

[@jodidavis6595]

To be able to envision an idea of what you want it to look like amazes me. Very handsome piece. Right down to the castor wheels and homemade handles. 👍🏼❤️

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Beautiful as always.🇨🇦

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Lol at the wood filler on the pristine home photo. 😂

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The editing and furniture are both divine!

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Nice!

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[@MichNative01]

Nice job!!

[@heyhope326]

The creativity, the precision, the hoard of salvaged bits and pieces, AMAZING. Very inspiring.

[@13daniel1974]

If you pull finish nails through, you won't ruin the hole they come out of when you drive them out. Thank you for the inspiration and showing your amazing talent

[@justkiddin84]

Really cool and thoughtful-and I actually needed to learn how to hold up some leaves on a piece! Thanks!

[@patsyshafchuk5368]

It's no wonder you're so perfect at woodworking! I tried and tried and tried to get a whole board sanded perfectly smooth by tapping it with my finger, and it didn't work. I asked my grandpa about it, and he just gave me a weird look, so I didn't ask about any of the other magical things you can dol.

[@eggsngritstn]

Yes, I often grab free cast off items for a single component such as your casters. Well done!

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Um, Professor, I think this freshman has accidentally stumbled into a master class. ☺️ Incredible work 👏👏👏

[@SalvagedInspirations]

Amazing as always Andy! 😃

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Ingenious. The castors were an amazing find. Great job, as usual👍

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You do some wicked editing! It puts your videos over the top!

[@StaceyJS]

I am so impressed with this former junky dresser turned into a fabulous industrial island. Bravo!

[@lydiaflatt9859]

Beautiful! Those dark pulls did it justice!’

[@audiomxr]

I bet this sold in a heartbeat. What a cool, modern upcycling…and with a tidy profit too!

[@nataliemiller2856]

That turned out so well !!! I love the contrasting drawer pulls, the casters and the side shelves. I've said it before and I will say it again, you are a true artist of furniture repair and refinishing. Your mind is so outside of the box, it's amazing. Great job 🤓

[@WilD-35]

Fanstatic work, love how you breath new life into old furniture

[@noraleestone2859]

Someone will snatch that up PDQ!! It will make a superb kitchen Island. Great job on the salvage, recycle, and redesign. 😁😍👍

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I’m so looking forward to the time when a wave of my hand produces a perfectly sanded piece! Your editing and creativity is amazing. Your woodworking isnt bad either! Lol😂. Greetings from Alberta. Looking forward to your next video.

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Or Australia

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I enjoy watching your work. So beautifully crafted.

[@valeriebigley8759]

Oh how that poor dresser had been abused. I bet she feels like Cinderella now. Amazing job. Thank you for salvaging her.

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Каждый раз от увиденного восторг! Благодарю за это искусство!!!

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I love to watch you create. I couldn't figure out how this one would work but I had great faith in your skills. Lovely repurposing and thanks for the link and your support of St. Jude ♥

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Excellent project, well done. You most definitely got the best out of those 2 pieces.

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New subscriber after seeing this video. What a brilliant result from very basic beginnings. Those wheels are the icing on the cake...they don't make them like that any more and the engineering and details that the steel workers produced in the past for even the basics items they made always amazes me. Being born in 'steel city'.. Sheffield in the UK I admit I have a soft spot for this particular kind of craftsmanship. Thank you. I'm looking forward to catching up on your other videos. Kate x

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This is my favorite one of your projects so far. So versatile & space saving. You have great skills at both carpentry & vid editing.

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I love how you keep all the pieces & materials. 😊♡ And yes, mayonnaise is an instrument! 😅 Oh my goodness, how *perfect* this piece of furniture is!! ☆

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The mayo aficionado sounded like Cecil the seasick sea serpent. I wonder who it was

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Me too, I love watching his work because he saves vintage materials (even old rusty screws and nails) and wood pieces and uses them for other projects. Great lessons for the environments

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So beautiful!!

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Wow! I don’t know how you look at 2 junked dressers and come up with that! So cool!

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what an inspired idea. The wheels are terrific. But, also the drop leaves. Well done.

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The handle making is such a flex lol

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Décidément ton travail m'étonne toujours ! Tu débordes de créativité et d'ingéniosité dans tout ce que tu fais, c'est admirable ! J'adore vraiment ton travail !

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I appreciate the fun that you have with the camera work

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Very nice repurposing of two dressers in rough shape into an awesome cart.

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It shows how you appreciate your activity, everything is done with extra attention and care. Congratulations.

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This was amazing! The cupboard looks great and the whole video was so enjoyable to watch. Well done ❤

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Not only is this an awesome makeover, but you got several LOLs out of me 🤣 Bravo!

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JUST OUTSTANDING , good job, well done !

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"The drawer bottom is out of its slot and the existing solution is not ideal" *pans to an array of wildly placed screws and nails* Gotta say, the main attraction is clearly the restoration and wood working but the way theyre shown through the editing is just great and cohesive. Everything is clear and just pleasant to watch with sprinkles of little goofs and gaffs here and there

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You are indeed a master! All your products look so modern, beautiful and unique. I love the raw wood look on this piece.

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I love the humor in this video with transitions and flicks. The picture of the house made me laugh!!! God bless you and keep you safe!!!!!!!

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You’re a true craftsman! Another triumph 😍

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Thanks for reusing and repurposing. You have true creative talent, and great design sense. A pleasure to watch.

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As everyone said already, your work is just fantastic. What a beautiful pay-off for all that hard work!

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Your work is flawless.

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I WANT THAT!!!!!!!!!!! you must be one of the cleverest young men out there! you have such excellent vision and the talent to make it happen. That is a lovely, lovely piece and I am major coveting it :) It is a perfect piece, it would make a perfect buffet/server as well as workspace that can be moved around as needed in the kitchen/dining area. That really came out fantastic. One of the things that makes me love your work even more (than the obvious fantasticness of the pieces) is that you repurpose, save, and make use of every single piece of wood, nails, screws etcetera. That is not only a special talent, but it is so environmentally sound and caring. And I totally love the way you edit your videos as well, they in of themselves are entertaining. Thank you so much for always having such wonderful videos.

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🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

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I enjoy listening to the natural sounds around you when you work outside. Including the sounds of children playing.

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What great work and a resulting fabulous piece of furniture! ❤

[@BlueSodaPop_]

Aaaaargh I love all the small editing stuff that you do, like when you tightened the bolts how the black bars became smaller and the shots with the lid or the glue. I do wonder though if the glue was tough to get off the lense- I would be so worried to ruin it!

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I'm thinking there was a coating on the lens that he could just pull off....

[@flamingoliz]

Lenses can make things seem closer than they are, he didn't touch the lens with glue.

[@stephenbell-booth2648]

One of the classiest restorations in a while. Excellent video, love the no music approach, the pace of change, attention to detail and skill. But most importantly your choice of treatment to the wood at the end. Blonde timber looks so nice but unfortunately too often the stain or treatment adopted ruins the whole piece. You’re very gifted and this was an outstanding presentation from the start.

[@bluecurlygirl]

There are no words. I'm flabbergasted. I don't know where you get your ideas from but I absolutely love them. So good.

[@Carmastrong855]

So happy to see a new video! You are a furniture genius. When I first saw the finished piece, I was thinking kitchen. Great work!

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i saw one video then watched all ur other ones. now i use these videos to sleep everyday cuz theyre so relaxing and beautiful 😂

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Как красиво, благородно! Шикарная работа!🤩🤩

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How you always manage to out-do yourself astounds me man.

[@ModernMakeovers]

😁🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@theresabclayton]

Nice work

[@colleenmccarthy-evans3149]

Love your creative process and your talent and skill, but with the furniture and the videography...so engaging, thank you.

[@tracyjohnson2992]

I am always surprised at the handles you make out of the dowel rods, You are really clever i would never have thought of making my own handles for a piece of furniture. This piece looks fantastic i love the addition of the two table leaves double duty chest of drawers. For a moment i thought you were going to make a secretary desk out of the two chest of drawers one on top of the other it the drawers removed on the above set and replaces with glass doors, i think that would also have suited this set of drawers. Nice work!

[@MultiCrackerjacker]

I am speechless Andy. Best engineer wood reviver EVER! Stunning work sir!