Vintage School Desk Makeover
by
Paula Skulina
(IC: blogger)
3 Materials
Good friends are moving into a new house and asked if I would give their daughter’s desk a makeover for her new room. This desk is an old school desk but I don’t know its history. It’s size makes me think that it originally was used in a junior or high school.
Our friends' daughter likes art and you can see that she’s spent quite a bit of time at this desk over the years painting . She also likes stickers and applied them all over. That residue can be pesky to remove!
I loved the natural wood top of this desk and wanted to preserve the pretty wood. It took quite a bit of sanding to get the top ready to stain. After I sanded the top to bare wood, I decided to also sand the legs to bare wood so that I wouldn’t have to worry about the dark stain color on the legs bleeding through the grey paint that I planned to use.
TThe top of the desk got two coats o Minwax Polyshades in Antique Walnut followed by two coats of Minwax Polycrylic in Semi-Gloss for extra durability. The legs were painted with Grey Silk paint from The Plaster Paint Company followed by wax from the same company. The chair is from a different desk and is painted in a slightly darker shade of grey.
Here's another look at the gorgeous wood on the desk's top.
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Suggested materials:
- Minwax Polyshades in Antique Walnut (http://amzn.to/2ep4m20)
- Minwax Polycrylic in Semi-Gloss (http://amzn.to/2fj5VfE)
- Grey Silk Paint from The Plaster Paint Company (http://www.theplasterpaintco.com/)
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Published January 2nd, 2017 8:12 AM
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