I’ve been looking for new office furniture for at least 6 months. Everything I liked was sooooo expensive (imagine that) or just didn’t look right. One day I was looking at the desk and filing cabinet my parents bought me at Costco the first day I moved to Charlotte and got to thinking… it really isn’t that bad, aside from just being kind of plain. So I decided to YouTube how to repaint and distress old furniture and found one particular video that was awesome – this woman showed each step, explained the materials used and everything. I watched it a few times, wrote down the list of stuff to get at Lowes, and off I went. It took a weekend from start to finish and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The only bummer is that my computer tower is just a hair too tall for the desk so it doesn’t fit, but we can live with it. I learned some things along the way that will make the next time (will there be a next time? I’ve been eyeing up my kitchen table…) even easier.
This is what I started with:
Step 1 – Sand (while begging husband, dog and kids to please just let me do this for a minute)
Step 2 – Two coats of white paint (while pleading with dogs and kids to please stay away from the furniture… attempt to make a barricade with wagon, coolers and the John Deere… laugh at self for thinking that would ever work…)
Step 3 – Distress (I only did a little around the edges)
Step 4 – Chocolate Glaze (afterwards, Step 5 which isn’t shown was 2 coats of polyurethane)
Step 6 - Put in office and enjoy!
Step 7 – Decorate office. This has not been done yet. Maybe by Christmas. Am I being to optimistic??
One more look at the final products:
