A few months ago I built a large bookcase for the guest room + office. Then I decided that the lower half would be better utilized as a dresser.

The final (for now)

I partially disassembled the dresser and then replaced the front and the knob. This saved me from needing to make and fit drawer boxes. The old sides are still visible (that's how the dimensions happened to work out).

The initial full bookcase build

Disassembling the old dresser

The most frankenstein version - I thought this might be a cool effect in itself but the yellow/shellacyness of the dresser was too much for me.

I replaced the drawer fronts. In the final above I replaced the pulls as well.

I've always thought it would be a cool project to collect drawers from curbed dressers and cabinets and then build a frame around the assortment.

It would be a lot of work though.