This one began a few years ago, when I found this cabinet, gosh, don't know where now.  Massachusetts, yes, that was it.  I immediately saw it's potential and fell in love.  I think I'm better at picking antiques than mates by the way.  They (the antiques) usually do what I want, and turn out how I like, where the men, well...they just stay rusty and dusty and dirty—just the way they are.


Here's the cabinet way back at the beginning, right after I brought it home. 

After carting this piece around, fully refinished, touching it up after it got drizzled with paint from being in a Manhattan work-in-progress show room, I brought it with me to Florida and to my recent show.  The West Palm Beach Antiques Festival: www.festivalofantiques.com/ (a plug for it. Come! I'll be in the Feb show too).

Well I am happy to say that this piece received a new owner and the show and is going to stop being carted around (by me anyway).  It will be part of a wonderful historic home's decor.  The couple who purchased this bin also bought one of my refinished typing tables to be the base for the cabinet to make it into a desk.  How clever.  I always saw this cabinet as a table top—one with great built in storage and a very cool look for the right nook. 


The finished product.  Lookin good metal cabinet! Enjoy your new home.