When we moved I really wanted new bedroom furniture. The bedroom furniture we had was in great shape and completely functional, but I was so over it. I wanted new bedroom furniture so bad that when we moved I didn't take our current furniture with us. And even though I knew we couldn't afford new bedroom furniture, I figured we'd just keep our clothes on the floor in heaps until we could. Well, that got old fast (duh). So we bought one chest of drawers from Ikea. I really wanted to buy another, but we were running out of money and room. Plus, we also needed night stands. I quickly found it was going to be hard to find even a puny little night stand for under $50 so I began looking for alternative ideas. I found these little chest of drawers at ikea for $40 each and figured I could fix them up to match our new chest of drawers and we could use them as night stands and extra storage. And I'm glad I did! Here is how it went down:

Before: