Kid's Desk Makeover
Tuck is our middle kid and a budding crafter and coloring magician. He comes home from pre-k with crazy amounts of paintings and I end up suffering mom-guilt for not having a place for the kid to be creative at home.
Enter this beauty.....or non beauty. I picked it up at a garage sale for $20 last weekend and with some paint and love transformed it into an awesome desk where Tucker can be creative at.
I used some Annie Sloane Chalk paint in Provence that I had on hand from another project and painted the desk and the drawers with it. It took 3 coats to cover to my satisfaction and then 2 coats of Verithane on top to seal it down and make it all nice and shiny. Who doesn't like shiny things?
Whoa! Bet you didn't see that coming! After I had painted the drawers I was a little disappointed in how "Blah" it looked. I had a map that we had used for something at one point and decided to use it to cover the fronts of the drawers on the side.
A little mod podge, some sand paper, a clear coat, some fresh spray paint on the handles and it was done! Oh and some cursing when I realized I had put the map upside down on one drawer. I know, right? That's probably why you shouldn't rush your projects, ha!
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Love the map finish. An upside down map is what makes the world go round!
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It looks brilliant. I'm sure he will love this forever. I would love a desk like this for my sewing machine. Question: What is Mod podge. I read a lot of makeovers use this but I have no idea what it is. Maybe it is a different name for PVA glue.????????
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