Evening All - Just a quick update for those who are interested - I won the music cabinet and the desk but not the chest of drawers, and they are winging their way across to me on Monday via the local man&Van (plus mother in law whom is kindly coming over to let them in whilst I'm at work)(I'll buy her some nice flowers)
I also went on a local site as litlmissbuttons suggested (Thanks) and ended up with a great solid oak unit for the living room: (Not quite freecycle, but for £50 delivered, it's a bargain).
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So cheers guys for all of your advice, am knackered from stripping wallpaper all day but should be able to carry on tomorrow and sand/ gloss/ wax before wall papering the office and seeing an end in sight! :-) Have a great weekend folks xx Peas