Dresser Refinishing

I refinished a family heirloom dresser and thought recounting snafus I had might help other novice furniture refinishers. I used Citrustrip, that is safer than methylene chloride. It almost removed two layers of paint, but I still had to remove all remaining paint (and the original stain and varnish, some of which was removed by the stripper also) by sanding the dresser down to 100 grit, then restaining and varnishing. The stripper certainly did help reduce the amount of sanding necessary. Initially I used oil based polyurethane outside, but cool weather caused it to streak, so I resanded with 150 grit to remove the varnish and used water based polyurethane inside instead. The picture is of the finished dresser, that in IMHO is better than the old powder blue paint job. It was a lot of work, but the dresser is more solid than modern ones and is worth keeping. My best hunch is that it was made in the 1930’s.