Picture Butte, AB – Missy Stroeve, a young mother of five living in Picture Butte, Alberta, asked her sister if she could have an old dresser that was sitting in a bedroom for three years.
A gentleman acquaintance had found it left in an alley during spring cleanup. One of the drawers was ruined so he rebuilt the frame and refinished the entire exterior of the dresser.
“I asked her if I could repurpose it for our bathroom,” noted Stroeve. “She heartily agreed and passed it along.”
Stroeve and her husband Dave had a local handyman fit the interior of the drawers to house the plumbing and make the dresser into a bathroom vanity that could still be useful for toiletry storage.
“Everyone who sees it falls in love with the character of it,” she said. “I love it because it has a timeless elegance that can be modernized with any new faucet, sink and accessories.”
“It also speaks to the individuality of our design sense,” Stroeve continued, “and in a decorating culture where everyone tends to end up with the same stuff we treasure this one of a kind addition to our home.”
Stroeve’s currently working on restoring a large old farm window into an art piece, as well as a secretary’s desk that the couple will be using to house their laptop and other computer accessories in their kitchen. |
