Desk Makeover With Menards Chalk Paint
by
Rose Lemke - What Rose Knows
(IC: blogger)
$40
4 Hours
Easy
When I discovered that Menards carried chalk paint I had to try it out - especially since the price was only $19.97 for a quart. Don't expect this paint to be front and center in the paint department though, you'll have to walk way in back to the end of one of the paint aisles.
I wanted to give this sturdy yet very dated desk that I got for a steal an updated look for our guest room/office. After checking out the paint chip sheet (42 colors available) I decided to go with a light gray.
Ummmmm....that is not light gray.
After the paint dried (about an hour later), my desk was purple. This was not the color I picked out at Menards. There was no way I was going to put a purple desk in our guest room/office so it was back to Menards for me for another quart of paint.
This time I decided to go with white.
It was mid-July when I painted the desk and mid-July in the midwest means humidity. We ended up bringing the desk inside so it would dry faster with the A/C. I used the entire quart of white paint to cover the purple. I did not expect to use that much paint on a surface that already had paint applied to it.
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Published January 6th, 2016 9:21 AM
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Joan on Jan 11, 2016It did look like grey to me, then again I might be colored blind,,,,I love how it turned out!
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Rose Lemke - What Rose Knows on Jan 12, 2016@Joan Thank you! The pictures really didn't show how purple it was the first time around!
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