Materials and the sequence of the job sit together on this page.
At Hickory Dickory Home she has taken some old desks and cleaned them up for two kids room desks.
At the beginning of the summer I knew that I wanted to get desks for the kids rooms. I went thrifting and found some great deals! I paid a little more for this first desk because I really wanted it. I think it was $20 because it was a consignment item.
A little bit o’ magic with a can of Fire Engine Red spray paint and……………VOILA!!!
I then found a chair at GW for $5 and sprayed that the same color spray paint! I added a blue seat cushion that I picked up at WM for $4 and it makes a well fitted addition to his new Mario Bros. Room! I also picked up the little tin buckets at Gee to the Dubbya! I think they were 50 cents each. He loves math and wanted to learn his times tables, so I got him a poster for above his desk. So…then I went to GW and found this desk for …….99 cents!!!!!! It had some nasty corkboard on the back and had some nails sticking out the top. I took both of those off and cleaned out the drawers. I sanded it and painted it with Black Laquer spray paint. I then picked up some sheet metal from Lowes and glued it with Gorilla Glue to the back. The kids and I made some magnets with those clear stones (the kind you put in vases) from the Dollar Tree, some magazine cutouts, and Modge Podge! They turned out solid, picture and walkthrough to come later!
THE AFTER I was clearly shocked at how good this turned out. He loves it!! I also picked up this dirty nasty metal chair for 99 cents. It was VERY grimy. A little cleaning and replacement of the seat cushion and backing (that was a vinyl) with some blue fabric and it was solid! I also put some black trim around the edges of the sheet metal with hot glue! Oh…and the frame (which now has a picture in it), the boxes, and the lamp….all from GW! I think I spent a total of $4.00.
We added a silohette vinyl to his wall for the overall look. He loves his new room! How nice to have those two new kids room desks. They turned out great! Which one do you like the most?
