Today I went back and checked my measurements on the wall where Alethea’s dresser is supposed to go, hoping maybe I had an inch or two more than I thought.  Turns out I did measure wrong… I don’t have 27 inches, I have 25.  Sigh…

So rather than try to find a dresser that would work with such tiny space, I decided to move our 24 inch dresser out of the nursery into Alethea’s big girl room.  I hate to do it, it’s so cute in the nursery, but I figured it would be easier to find a new dresser for that more flexible space than another dresser smaller than 25 inches.

And sure enough, just a few hours after I made that decision, this dresser turned up on Craigslist:

We picked it up tonight and it’s way cuter in person.  The older gentleman who sold it to us was super nice and seemed happy that his wife’s childhood dresser was going to a ‘good home’.  And bonus, it’s actually more teal than green, so I think I may be able to stick it straight into the nursery with only a change of knobs.  Woo hoo!