Joining the Coral Color Ranks

Having an entertainment center is rather a joke for us. We don't even have a flat screen TV yet. We don't have cable, and we watch TV once a month or so when the Braves are on a broadcast channel. We have bunny ears, and not the cute kind.

So for me, upcycling an entertainment center is really just a ploy to add another statement piece to our new family room. Finally, a place to store the blankets and the six DVDs that we own (most of them being Muppet titles).

I'd been on the lookout for an old MCM dresser for quite a while. I loved the piece found by my friend Rachel here, which is gorgeous and too lovely to paint. But it had the look I was going for. So when I found this dresser at Goodwill for twenty bucks, I hauled it home.

We removed the top drawers for components and put holes in the back for wiring. Some fun paper decoupages the inside, which Brian reinforced with thin plywood to support our many TV, cable, and game components DVD player.

Yes, coral is a fad color. But that's the great thing about painting furniture. In a few years, when coral makes us all gag and recoil, I can redo this piece in mauve or goldenrod or whatever happens to be faddish right about then...

I'll include some more pictures when we actually get this piece set up in the family room with our little TV and our freshly painted gray walls.

What pieces in your home make you happy? If you are doing more recoiling than smiling, it's time to get the paint out!

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