Furniture on the cheap

This week home has been surprisingly busier than I expected (you all told me it would happen!). While I haven't had much time to start working on Etsy stuff, I have managed to do some actual baking and cooking, along with starting to get the house back together after a week away! Yesterday, Mark and I made a great find near the dumpsters outside our apartment complex. Now, I know that you might associate this with saggy, stinky mattresses, half-dead ficus trees and floor lamps missing shades, but we've actually made a few good finds over the last couple years. This item was a black lacquer desk with a drawer and trestle detailing. It has one pull on the drawer, so I'm hoping to find a cool pull to switch with the existing one.  After some minor repair and some major cleaning, we have a great desk that we're going to keep our printer and some office-y stuff on. It goes really well with our other decor, so yay for one man's trash being our treasure:) The best part is that it was free! Our other good finds lately are all mid-century modern or Danish items, including an awesome console dresser for $30 bucks at a resale shop, 4 beautiful (well, beautiful after a coat of spray paint and changing out the black vinyl seat covering for Marimekko fabric) dining chairs for 7.50 each, and a Danish wooden dining table from Craigslist. We've become pros at hitting the scratch/dent section of the Crate and Barrel outlet and Ikea, checking craigslist regularly and knowing which resale shops get the best furniture. Someday we may justify spending actual money on furniture...but I doubt it; it's too much fun to find the real deals:)