A bureau?... and another baseboard.
The household authorities had ordered a tidy -up of the "model railway room" months ago, so I thought I'd better get on with it. "I know", I said, "I want an old fashioned bureau, I can work on the lift-down flap then store my scruffy tools, turps, rags behind it. All my materials can go in the drawers." So a few visits to second-hand shops didn't throw up anything, nor did an antique centre, the bureau's in there were far too grand and expensive. Then I thought, you twit! (being me), I already have one in storage! it is being kept for me after my fathers passing from the family house, a small reproduction one and of a suitable size for the room where I make my models.
One of the only jobs I would do around the house when I was young (being a spoilt brat) was to polish the bureau, I liked doing that. So the bureau was collected and brought home. I repaired the cubby-hole fitment and strengthened one of the legs, polished it up, and filled it with my modelling stuff.
