Thrift Store Desk To Vanity Makeover

Remember my $20 thrift shop desk I institute last week?

 I wasn't quite certain what I wanted to practice amongst it, until I saw this Crate & Barrel LaSalle Black Vanity Desk.

My petty thrift shop desk was a like size to Mr. LaSalle, in addition to I right away knew what I had to do.

Check out my petty guy's novel look!

He's hence sassy now.

 And I'm smitten. When I start spotted this desk inwards the thrift store, a lightbulb appeared inwards my brain. I knew EXACTLY what I could practice amongst a desk this size....make a bigger, ameliorate vanity than the i I was currently using. Just to jog your memory, here's the concluding vanity I was using. It was cute, but ultimately only also small!

Teeny weeny vanity, I RELEASE YOU!

 Now y'all tin run into how much ameliorate my upgraded version is! I made a few changes, too. I moved the whole vanity setup to a dissimilar wall (over closer to the bathroom door, which was a bigger wall) in addition to and hence I also added a few other favorite ugrades.

 I institute a GIANT one-time wooden mirror at the thrift shop in addition to painted it Sherwin Williams Sea Salt blue (same coloring every bit bathroom). I added to a greater extent than or less other i of my ribbon-trimmed drum shade lamps. Then, I also decided to convey my favorite thrift shop chair makeover into the mix! It's hence much comfier than my petty dinky stool I was using. All combined, my 8 1000000 thrift shop creations brand i AWESOME vanity/dressing table!!!

I volition become into slap-up special nearly how I transformed this desk inwards my next post (since it was a slight-debacle-that-took-3-days-but-ended-up-perfect). So, remain tuned!

Also, remain tuned for a cupboard update soon!

And an update on the side room!

It's actually starting to come upward along!

That's all for today! Thanks for stopping past times to cheque out the novel vanity!

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How To Fix a Spray Paint Disaster

Today I'm telling the storey of my outset spray pigment disaster.
It all started amongst an innocent piffling thrift shop desk.

Although I'm pretty certain it had it out for me from the start, every bit at that topographic point were several spiders inwards the drawer simply waiting to trap me upwardly inwards a spider web as well as drain my blood. 
That's how far it went inwards my head.

Luckily Jesse is ever willing to de-spider things for me. And thus he offered to assistance me drill the novel holes for the handle.

After my novel holes were drilled, I took the desk exterior inwards the driveway as well as applied a bunch of forest filler to all of the scratches as well as dents. This desk was 1 large giant dent. 

Every white splotch on the to a higher house drawer was a dent or hole. 

That pace lonely took a practiced sixty minutes to complete.

Next, I used this gray primer (affiliate link) to prime number the desk since I had decided to spray pigment it black. 
I truly dear the agency the grayness primer looks past times itself. I should receive got waxed it as well as quit there. 
Seriously though, who knew grayness primer turned out thus pretty. It makes me desire to purpose it on something else. It's simply that perfect shade of gray-blue. 

But, of course of education I didn't halt there, because I was assault having a glossy dark desk.
And that's when my projection turned into a flake of a disaster.

I've spray painted thus many things inwards the past times span of years as well as I've never had this plough over off before. 

I used patently former high gloss dark spray pigment as well as for some argue it looked amazing everywhere except the overstep of the desk. The overstep of the desk was super streaky.

So, I allow it dry out for a few hours as well as thus took it within as well as sanded downward simply the overstep of the desk.

I could receive got sanded it all the agency down, but life is short, thus I simply sanded it smooth.

Then, I primed the overstep of the desk amongst brush on primer, primed it, thus painted it amongst some apartment dark pigment I had on hand. Then position a coat of Polycrylic on top.

It wasn't the ideal province of affairs I had planned, every bit my conception was to accept 10 minutes to spray pigment it as well as endure done. But, sometimes things acquire messed upwardly as well as you lot simply receive got to figure out a agency some it.

I debated non sharing my spray pigment disaster, but I figured that I'm non the exclusively 1 who's had a streaky spray pigment employment as well as that possibly this would assistance person else figure out what to do. I've since figured out that it didn't function because I spray painted a large apartment surface (the overstep of the desk) amongst a depression character dark lacquer spray paint. I've since spray painted this amongst a high character glossy dark spray pigment as well as it turned out perfectly.

So, I've lived as well as learned.

But, all is good inwards the end, every bit it however turned out pretty cool for a piffling thrift shop desk!

That's all for today!
'Til side past times side time!

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The Painted Dining Room Table Debacle

I receive got a piddling story for y'all today. It's a story that began inwards Feb presently subsequently I began this blog. It's a story of our dining room table, together with a piddling flake more.

It's a story close making the best of what y'all have, fifty-fifty when what y'all receive got is a really crappy table.


Let's start at the beginning. When nosotros initiative of all bought our solid 2 years ago, nosotros had a really small-scale budget to supply it. The budget was thence small-scale that subsequently purchasing 2 couches, the budget turned nonexistent.

We had never had a dining room earlier (having previously rented a teeny condo), together with although our novel ane was close the size of a small-scale sandbox, I yet wanted to decorate it. I turned to Craigslist to larn a dining room table. I constitute an entire fix for $600. It looked similar this:

I loved it at first, but I chop-chop grew to loathe it.

Some people receive got genuinely pinned this motion-picture present when I used it inwards previous posts, but every fourth dimension it's pinned, I cringe. I assure y'all that the motion-picture present does it WAY to a greater extent than jurist than it deserves. It was genuinely ugly inwards person. 

 The veneer began to tegument off of the top, it scratched easily, it was HUGE, together with having to brand our guests inch unopen to this gigantic tabular array exactly didn't work.

So, subsequently close a twelvemonth of giving it muddy looks every day, I resold it on Craigslist. 

I've constitute that when y'all purchase materials secondhand, y'all never experience guilty or bad when y'all realize the purchase was a mistake. You exactly resell it together with movement on.

My conception at this betoken was to honour a smaller circular tabular array somewhere locally together with thence honour chairs I loved online.

That conception didn't operate out thence well.

I constitute this for $30.  This is the motion-picture present that was on Craigslist. That is NOT my garage. 

My garage is much grosser. 

From the motion-picture present it looks all glossy together with inwards corking condition. I knew I would live on ikon it anyways, thence for $30, it passed the test.

Well, when Jesse brought it home, I close fainted. It was the most banged up, beaten upward slice of woods I had e'er seen. But, again, since it was $30, I figured I'd give it a go.

Here's the tabular array top subsequently I spent HOURS patching it:

My initiative of all conception was to stain it amongst a gray woods stain, but the veneer was thence damaged I had to pigment it instead. So, I painted it a beige-gray. I left it this agency for four months.

Be form to me....I never planned on showing y'all these pics, fearing that my table-adventure was a flop.

During these four months of my beige table, nosotros never had chairs. It was but a fourth dimension where nosotros had other priorities than assembling our dining room. 
The cats were the exclusively ones who seemed to similar it. They perched on it all 24-hour interval together with looked out the drinking glass doors.


So, since thence I've decided exactly to sell it. It's exactly non the correct table. But, earlier I sell it, I needed to figure out what color would expect amend inwards this space: a rustic, raw woods tabular array or a dark table. I'm yet thence torn, equally both would likely operate well. So, I decided to pigment the $30 tabular array dark thence that I could stare at it for awhile together with recall how a dark tabular array looks inwards our house.

So, I spent a few evenings sitting on the flooring of my sleeping room ikon the tabular array black. You likely mean value I'm crazy, (and I suppose I am) but I similar to pigment article of furniture correct hither piece I lookout adult man TV. This pic was taken piece it was drying...there were close four to a greater extent than dropcloths set downwardly piece I was genuinely painting.

I genuinely debated on whether or non I fifty-fifty wanted to percentage this project, because my dining room is yet SO unfinished. 

I brought inwards the work desk chair for the pictures, exactly thence that it didn't expect thence empty. Here's the 'finished' table.

So, that's my dining room situation. I exactly idea I would percentage because I'm certain a few of y'all tin relate. :)

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DIY Media Console: How To Paint & Stencil Furniture

Today I'm sharing my petty media console that I painted amongst my diy chalk paint!

I've been inwards desperate postulate of something to concur our TV until nosotros instruct closed to to mounting it on the wall.  So, I did a petty Craigslist perusing the other solar daytime as well as came across this petty treasure for $20.

It was hideous.

However, I actually liked the shape, as well as for $20 I knew I could plow it into something decent to instruct us past times for awhile.

After taking it abode as well as cleaning it upwards a bit, I took the drawers out, sanded it downwardly actually good.

Then I primed the it. It took several coats.

I used Kilz to comprehend upwards whatever stains as well as smells, as well as to brand certain my chalk pigment was extra durable.

Then painted it amongst 2 coats of Behr 'Creamy White' inwards that I converted into chalk paint. You tin skip the priming as well as sanding if you lot actually desire to when using chalk paint. However, I knew this dresser was going to instruct a lot of apparel as well as tear, thence I went ahead as well as did extra prep work.

Then I got a petty creative as well as used some leftover metallic element pigment as well as a stencil to spruce it upwards a bit.

I decided to usage the stencil on the purpose underneath where the knobs become on each drawer.

I used a petty spray adhesive as well as some record to secure it, as well as and thence used my roller to gyre on the Martha paint.

I ended upwards amongst a cute petty stenciled especial on each drawer.

Then, I used some old brass knobs that I had pulled off another old slice of furniture a long fourth dimension ago. They were hideously brass, only I loved the shape of them. Using a twosome coats of Oil Rubbed Bronze, I was able to brand them await fresh as well as updated.

Ultimately I decided to accept the legs off of the dresser thence that it would last a improve superlative for our living room. I kept them though, thence that I tin supply this dresser to its one-time glory when I'm cook to sell it as well as upgrade.

I mean value it's a peachy solution for now, as well as fits good inwards our living room.

Thanks for joining me! Don't forget to pivot this post thence you'll induce got it when it's fourth dimension to pigment your ain furniture!

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