I don't have a true "before" picture, but you can see it in this photo from back when Joey & I first got married, and tried to mesh our furniture together in our townhouse (and yes, that is *a lot* of brown... a design choice that I have been trying to compensate for over the last few years!):
Here it is, after a coat of paint and new knobs (purchased off of ebay) in our apartment that we just moved into:
It feels like a brand new piece of furniture, and is great for storing our collection of $1 Goodwill VHS tapes (yes, we still own and use VHS!) and for providing some extra storage/display space on top. I still want to do something to it, though, to really finish it off and give it some *oomph*. I haven't figured it yet, but I'm thinking one of two things:
(1) finishing it off with nailhead trim, either working alongside the grooves of the console, or doing some sort of design on the cabinet faces, similar to this:
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Thoughts?
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