Last Saturday the better-half and I stopped in at a local thrift store and bought two side tables to use at the school apartment. I painted them and have to say the color in person is a much richer chocolate brown.
Table 1 looked like it had fallen off a truck:
Table 2 was in better shape and only had a minor gouge on the top:
Yesterday we met some friends, took them out to lunch, and then brought home a double bed for the apartment. They swapped out one of their bedrooms years ago to turn it into an exercise room and carefully wrapped the mattress and box springs in huge plastic bags for storage. The pieces are consequently in good shape and they threw in the frame and the headboard. They are happy that someone will be using the bed (and that they got a bunch of space back in their shed).