So, I needed a quick dresser that would also help organize the clothes in our house. My wife showed me this idea for a laundry basket dresser/organizer. I decided to make two matching “dressers” that held two baskets and one small trey on the bottom. They work great and are cheap to build. I have about 50 bucks in boards and baskets. I used 1x8x8 pine boards (which I joined together using pocket hole joinery exclusively) and some 2x2s all purchased at my local home depot. After sanding everything (the 2x2s were particularly rough) I thought the pine was lovely so I just slapped a couple coats of poly on it (with a 000 steel wool rub down between each) and they turned out lovely. I put a little chamfer on the edge with my sander (effective on pine) and trimmed the edges of the 2x2s to a 30 degree angle just for looks mostly. These dressers are 36” tall and I measured off the baskets I got at Walmart. Too easy - I was able to build them in about 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon. I think in the future, I’ll add some shelves up the top and they will work great in the laundry room for storage and organization. And the rustic pine is lovely.
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