Grandma's Furniture part 2

During sanding pahse

If you read the first post about the furniture I inherited you knew that I had stripped, sanded, re-stained, and refinished a moderate sized dresser that I had inherited from my late grandmother. (see Grandma's Furniture)  It was part of a bedroom set that also included a full size bed as well as the following piece.

Door and Drawers after sanding

The second part of that bedroom set was finally completed last week and it also turned out quite well.  It is a smaller dresser of which I was repeatedly informed of its proper name - a "commode".  I was quite confused to this terminology, as I had always thought of a "commode" as a fancy french word for toilet.  It turns out it is a little of both.  According to definition a commode is a piece of 18th-19th century bedroom furniture where the chamber pot was kept. (see wikipedia reference)  Evidently out of sight out of mind and as long as one had some rosemary to cover the smell....no harm no foul.  However, we will probably not use it as a "commode" since we have a full bath adjoining the bedroom.  So from this point on it will be officially known as a small dresser.  At any rate, it is a very nice family heirloom as well as a once again beautiful piece of oak furniture.  Thanks grandma.

The finished "commode" now proudly sits in our bedroom.