Productive. Efficient. Love.

I love rearranging furniture to make it suit my needs, without having to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to make it work!  It just thrills me to NO end!! 
I wanted to paint an old dresser for my son's room, and get new hardware for it as well. But I first had to move about 5 different things around first.  The first being...the area behind the loveseat, where I wanted to put a sofa table...and then house the kids Wii stuff and crafts below it.
I had gone to the local thrift store to look for soccer cleats for my son. They had them there NEW for $10bucks! Loads of them. Anyway, I walked in and looked to my right, and there they were!!  TWO identical bookcases for $12bucks each. The right width. Color was fine. Good shape. Sturdy. OMG...  Really? $12? $24 total? I quickly took a pic. and sent it to my friend (hi Heidi!) to see if her husband could cut the bottoms off for me. "yes?  ok!!"  And BOOM!  I bought them!  They'll be perfect for the base to my sofa table!! 
So here's the step by step action taken:
*cleaned out the crap 9-basket toy shelf thing behind the loveseat.
*cut off bottoms of bookshelves. Placed them behind the loveseat at either end...can't be seen from the front.
*had Lowe's cut me a pine board 58" long to sit across the top of the bookcases...hence...the top of the 'sofa table.' 
*Dug a pashmina-type scarf out of the attic to cover the pine board
*bought/planted 3 new house plants to sit on top of the sofa table
*cleaned out the old, ugly dresser from the basement that housed all the gift wrap

*emptied my son's plastic 'drawer system' of clothing in his closet

*moved the 9-basket toy shelf from behind the loveseat, into my son's closet (for socks, undies, pj's, shoes)

*painted the dresser

*moved the plastic drawer system to the basement for the gift wrap

*moved the newly painted dresser into his bedroom for his clothes

(I mean seriously?  It's the SAME dresser!! Gotta love "Rustoleum 2X" spray primer and spray paint!!)

*moved all furniture, minus the bed, in the bedroom to make way for this beaut.

DONE.

Wow!  That was a crazy week.

Total cost for everything:

$20. primer/paint

$24. new hardware for dresser

$23. for 3 housplants & 1 pot

$24. bookshelves 

$10. pine board

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$101. 00

what did I get for $101?

'New dresser'

'New closet storage system'

Sofa Table

Toy storage

Storage for gift wrap & boxes

Productive. Efficient. Love.

I'll post pics. of the bedroom and sofa table tomorrow!!  Off to my slumber.