One weekend when i was visiting Jaimee in phoenix we hit up some garage sales. I had now luck that day at all but i did see this desk at a house and loved it and had so many ideas on how to refinish it. The lady wanted $50 for it and that was not gonna happen from so, so i gave her my phone number and told her if she didn't sell it and was willing to take $20 to call me and i would love to have it. So later that day i got a call from her and that is where my desks story begins :)!!!
When i picked it up it was in awful condition there had to be at least 3 layers of different colored paint on top of its original varnish but it had potential, with all of its details and crevices and gorgeousness i could not wait to start transforming it!!! So here it is right before i started sanding!
I had started sanding that right side before i remembered i hadn't taken before pictures.
There were bubbles all over and dings it was awful!!!
and it was yellowing.
This is after i sanded it down i thought about staining the whole thing but i couldn't get enough of the paint out of all of the crevices to make it look good stained.
After i painted it i had a hard time deciding if i would glaze it or not so these next two pictures are glazed and not glazed i decided to glaze!!
But the above pic had a little too much glaze on it so i removed some for the finished project.
Tad ah!!! So here it is my first piece of furniture i have ever refinished all done and looking pretty. I have officially lost my furniture redoing virginity!! And i think it turned out pretty awesome for a first timer if i do say so myself.
Side note- Paul may or may not have helped me out quite a bit with this piece but not because i needed him to just because he is a perfectionist and anytime i asked him a question or did something on my own, he decided it would be easier for him to do it himself or it was not very good so it needed to be redone. He is amazing though and i was not going to fight over something so small. So thank you honey for all your hard work in helping me make my vision for this desk come alive. Oh yeah another side note i found a dresser that was my inspiration for this desk from a before and after blog so i did not come up with this look all on my own!!!
10 comments:
SO COOL! that looks really great, nice work! I have an ugly dresser I took from my mom, so when I get a job I'm going to give it a make over too, but I have never done it before either! should be interesting. This makes me want to go garage selling :)
waoh! that is exactly...take that back...EVEN BETTER than I had envisioned. I love how the top is stained but the rest is painted. it makes is look so rich. And the handles go perfect. I knew you'd choose well.
Beautiful. I have such a talented sister. All your hard work definitely paid off. It will be a piece you will keep forever. I love you and can't wait to see it in person
Holy crap balls!!! ;) You are amazing!! Seriously . . you need to submit that sucker to better after. . i don't care if you go the idea from there. It is amazing!!!
I LOVE it!! It looks AMAZING!! You're so talented!! And I have a perfectionist husband too - I can't ask him a single question without him trying to take it all over!
more than awesome! Totally impressed! ...and LOVE your header photo :)
WOW! Saw you from your link at VR. You did an AMAZING JOB!!! It's truly beautiful.
oh my gosh, oh my GOSH! brilliant job on that redo-the shape is amazing, but the colors you chose and that side pattern. you rock!
Found you on Vintage Revivals...Nice job for a newbie. It looks really good. I like the diamonds on the sides. Now everything is fair game for the paintbrush!!
You did such a good job! I've been needing a desk and now I'm thinking of doing it your way! I'm not sure mine would turn out that good though, you are amazing!
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