Bed Stuy Reno

Back Parlor Bureau Process

Back Parlor Bureau with Salvage Door Doors

Back Parlor Bureau with Salvage Door Doors Stripped

For our bedroom, G and I decided to build ourselves a bureau large enough to store a lot of different things. We used what was essentially the same system as our bookshelves from the lower level, but used deeper 2x10s as opposed to 2x8s. We also wanted doors for this piece, because we didn’t want to see a lot of clutter and clothes in the bedroom.

Taking a page from her Urban design book, G thought it would be cool to fashion the doors out of old doors – we found two salvage doors on the sidewalk near our house that someone was throwing out, et voila, we had all we needed.

We cut the doors to size and then stripped their faces once in place. End result was pretty sweet!