I think they look nice with the headboard the way they are.
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Top left or bottome right!!!
How well do you think the paint will hold up to scuffs over time compared to the bare pine?
My inclination, with 10+ year old nightstands showing some wear, is to keep it pine and then paint them later to freshen them up. Not taking wear into consideration, though, I agree that the pine looks good next to your headboard.
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I would at the very least keep part of them pine, since it looks so good with the headboard.
I’m a simple lady but I love the plain pine!
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Alrighty, I won’t feel l guilty when it doesn’t actually get painted for months or years!
The headboard is maple and we have a large maple dresser across from the bed, so i feel like it might be too much plain light wood?
Eventually there will be a second dresser for my spouse but that’s not in th budget for a while longer unless a perfect thrift store find comes along.
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I would happily live in one of those Scandinavian designed rooms with like 47 layers of light wood so I’m not a neutral party on that 
I will say, changing the hardware can be a fun cheap way to dress them up.
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Already on it! I just got back from home Depot 
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Sounds like a coordinated set to me!
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I’m team paint! Maybe leave the top and the legs pine to tie into the rest of the wood in your room. I painted my nightstands aged ago and the legs have gotten a bit beat up due to vigorous attacks by the vacuum cleaner. The rest is still looking the way it did when I first painted it and that was painting over melamine, not wood!
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What about something seasonal, like a box of the perfect peaches?
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Can anyone throw me a NYT gift link to this wild story?? Getting serious Boxcar Children vibes
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There are lots of good and sad Guardian articles, sorry not getting enough time to link you
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I gotcha
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Thank you!!
Wow what a miracle!! That 13yo—a true hero
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Need help with a short, text-worthy casual invite phrasing.
Basically how do you quickly and not awkwardly say “party is between x and y time but there’s no specific things that are arranged full group things it’s just kind of a show up whenever and eat and stay as long as you like and leave whenever you want thing”
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Hey! We’ve scheduled the (theme) open house from x to y on z day, and would love to see you there. We’ll have abc to eat/drink.
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Am I thinking about your party to avoid thinking about mine, who can say!!
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I just realized mine was supposed to be in 3 weeks and I’m like oh shit
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I’m very bad at party planning.
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