Weeks ago my street had its annual neighborhood yard sale…
I LOVE the ladies across the street from me.
They are a group of four DIVALICIOUS best friends
that get together every year and gather their treasures for the yard sale at the house of one of them… which happens to be my SWEET neighbor.
That day I purchased a bunch of vintage jewelry from them,
the little end table that is now in my room and the two small silver doves.
the little end table that is now in my room and the two small silver doves.
BUT my heart STOPPED when I saw this little guy.
…It was instant love 😉
…What is up with me and the $10 desks?
It took me some time to decide what I wanted to do with it…
I have to tell you that this poor desk was dirty…
As beat up as it looked one of the things that I adored about it
was the three color dimension going on there.
was the three color dimension going on there.
The original wood… the sage green color and the final ivory…. {The History Behind the Desk}
The sweet lady that owned it told me that she had bought it from a yard sale over 30 years ago
when her son was just a kid…
How cool is that?!
when her son was just a kid…
How cool is that?!
The desk was green when she bought it and that she was the one that painted it in ivory…
Then she added that the desk had been in her shed
since her son moved out over a decade ago…
since her son moved out over a decade ago…
So to leave some of the desk journey in it
I decided to sand all of the chipping paint and leave any old solid paint on it..
I decided to sand all of the chipping paint and leave any old solid paint on it..
This is how it looked after sanding…
At this point I new what color I wanted it to be…
So I carefully painted in red the wood areas
leaving as much as the white and the green unpainted as I could…
leaving as much as the white and the green unpainted as I could…
The last step was to sand again the over-lapping paint
letting the green and the white original paint reappear…
letting the green and the white original paint reappear…
In some other areas I actually scraped the pain off with a knife…
…So, here it is my precious desk.
I normally end saying from ordinary… to EXTRAORDINARY!
…Well, today I don’t think I can say such thing.
This desk was an EXTRAORDINARY one from the very beginning,
it just needed some tender love 😉
This desk was an EXTRAORDINARY one from the very beginning,
it just needed some tender love 😉
The END!Click HERE to see where I party…
I recently did this to a desk that I purchased at a garage sale last summer for $20, what a great find it was, this desk was so sturdy and my 20 year old daughter had just moved out on her own and needed a dresser. We sanded and sanded (and sanded until we got down to the bare wood and some of the old white paint (I think there must have been 4-5 coats of different paint/primer. I then primed it with a dark brown and sanded it again to get the old look then I painted it black and sanded all the edges to get the distressed look, some of the brown showed through and some of the white. We then did the most amazing thing we found online – we modge/podged vintage looking scrapbook paper (that we tore and rubbed with alcohol ink) right onto the drawers. We were going to purchase new knobs but the old ones looked amazing with the old paper and distressed look. This dresser is amazing and it was hard to even take it to her college apartment but she cherishes it and we had a great time doing it together.