{"id":1285,"date":"2010-02-07T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:16:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:16:37","slug":"mushy-gushy-baby-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"mushy gushy baby post #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

thank you for your wonderful responses to the quilt and our big announcement! let’s begin this string of baby posts with an easy, not-too-babyish project i took on a few months ago–the changing table.<\/p>\n

i love the “modern” aesthetic, but i’m too cheap to pay for the really good stuff, so i’m always looking around for good bargains. while shopping for nursery furniture, i decided that i wanted to get a changing table that was also a dresser to increase the likelihood of it being used for a long time. i drooled over many of the beautiful modern pieces out on the market today and tried to figure out if i could justify the cost, but, in the end, i decided to start with a trip to the trusty ol’ dig-n-save. you know, the thrift store outlet? where items that aren’t good enough to be sold at the regular thrift stores are sold at rock bottom prices? i zipped through it once and didn’t really see anything perfect, plus, i wasn’t quite sure what size to get. how tall should it be? how deep is a changing table pad? i continued my search at other stores, did some measurement research and went back to the dig and save for one more look. and i found this:<\/p>\n

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it wasn’t much to look at.\u00c2\u00a0 there were chunks of veneer missing, water stains on the top and boring knobs, but the basic lines were nice and clean and at $10 the price was right for a gamble.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, in looking online for inspiration, i’d found\u00c2\u00a0 this awesome furniture makeover<\/a>, this “changer” by amy coe<\/a>, and also loved the color combo of this crib <\/a>which we ended up purchasing later.\u00c2\u00a0 put those all together with a few cans of paint we had leftover from other projects, two afternoons of work and you get….\"\"
\nthen, a few weeks later when my dad came to visit, he helped me build a box on top to hold the changing pad (with a little extra room on the side for diapers, etc. and space underneath for a diaper pail) and he also installed runners on the drawers so that they work more smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 i also enlarged the finger holes a bit and now it looks like this:<\/p>\n

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i’m pretty happy with it and i love that i was able to transform something that looked so sad into something so much happier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thank you for your wonderful responses to the quilt and our big announcement! let’s begin this string of baby posts with an easy, not-too-babyish project i took on a few months ago–the changing table. i love the “modern” aesthetic, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}