Monday, February 22, 2010

A Beautiful Desk

I had such a great response over my craft storage I decided I must do another piece. Sure I SHOULD have waited until their are not 1 million other things going on around the house … but I didn’t… because I was in goodwill and found this piece:

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How could I not get her? She’s so CURVY!!! She just needed a fresh coat of paint! Here she is all dressed up

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Beautiful huh? She is painted with roller and brush in Ralph Lauren Roadster White. I decided to reuse the original hardware with this piece but sprayed it with a Rust-Oleum Hammered Spray paint in Dark Bronze.

Here are some of her details:

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This shows some examples of choosing a TRULY good piece of furniture! This piece is solid wood with dove joints. A truly QUALITY piece of furniture we don’t see much of anymore!

So this piece took WAY longer than I thought it would and much longer than my china cabinet. i was ready to throw in the towel at a few different points. You see at first I used the rollable version of American Accents Heirloom White… I am pretty sure the paint was bad as even though I had Primed the piece the paint was easily scraping off. When I used the Ralph Lauren I had no problems… I won’t be using that paint again!!! I am glad it is FINALLY DONE! Now I can reclaim some space! :)

 

Oh and if you are local and interested in purchasing here you can check out the CL ad here:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/fuo/1611756921.html

 

You know I LOVE parties! I am linking this post to these!!!

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11 comments:

Caroline @ The Feminist Housewife

Loving the curves! = ) Great job!

alissa {33shadesofgreen}

Beautiful. . .What a great piece of furniture! She looke lovely in white.

Patti @ Pandoras Box

we all love curves!!

What a cute piece and you certainly got lucky to find it...looks great painted

Marilyn

You found a great piece of furniture.
If I had seen it first, it would be in my house! Your hard work shows. Thanks for sharing.

Lisa Nelsen-Woods

The hammered bronze pulls make it.

FrouFrouBritches

GORGEOUS! Love it!

Natasha in Oz

Wow, what a transformation! That is a very beautiful piece now. Isn't it amazing what a difference a coat of white paint can make!

Best wishes,
Natasha.

Megan Gunyan

Very curvy! It looks fantastic.

Thelittlebrownhouse.us

That is an amazing desk!! I can't believe you got it at goodwill - what a find! Great job!

Julie

Very cute curves! Thanks for sharing with Made it Monday! Jules

Tiffany

super duper cute!
-tiff