Since we finished the family room back in September, I've been searching for the right desk for the office/craft area. The one we had obviously wasn't right.
We did eventually use a 6' folding table, but that gave me no storage and Curtis hated looking at all my scrapbooking and crafting supplies all the time!
I checked Craigslist and the FB buy/sell/trade pages quite often, but never did find anything cheap enough or pretty enough. One day, Curtis called me and asked if I wanted my parents' old desk - it had been sitting in a shed for over 2 years and Bret was getting ready to throw it out. Of course I wanted it - but only if I could paint it. So I did and I LOVE it.
So much storage! I actually have a rolling cart and my sewing machine in the door cupboard. I can't fit all my stuff in the desk, but at least I don't have to run downstairs every single time I do something!
There's plenty of room for my Silhouette to sit on the desk - it's actually gotten used a lot more in the week that I've had the new desk.
The actual painting of the desk wasn't too bad - I read lots of blog posts and figured out how to do it. I discovered Zinsser Cover Stain primer and that made the whole process much easier - I didn't have to sand it at all! Just two coats of primer, two coats of semi-gloss latex paint and two coats of water-based polyurethane. Curtis is finally starting to understand...he was the one that suggested painting it turquoise :) Who wants to live with ugly old oak? :)
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