aarn: kittinger desk drawer shelving unit [furn]
Three or four years ago, my friend, and neighbor at the time, Cecily left me a really nice Kittinger brand desk that had been repainted eggshell blue. The desk had a lot of character and was a tank. When it came time to move I didn’t feel like taking the desk with me, but, since I’m a jerk, I took all of the drawers out of it, leaving a 200-lb, completely useless, handmade skeleton of a desk in the basement of my old apartment.
In the years following my departure from that apartment in Allston, I have moved the drawers twice with me, and installed them in different configurations as shelving in my new apartments. This time around, I made a big shelving unit for my living room. I laid out the drawers on the ground to get the right look, and then flipped them over a screwed them together used scraps from slats from an old bed. I then attached the whole unit to the wall, and we filled it with crap.
