Thursday, September 2, 2010

Vintage Find to Girly Beauty

Hi loves and happy Thursday!

I am interrupting the scheduled summer recaps to share something with you all that's very near and dear to my heart. A few weeks ago, I started looking for a desk to use in my wedding planning office. I wanted something that I could fix up and redecorate to make my own. I love creating something fantastic out of something forgotten or misused. Can you tell I've been watching too much HGTV? Well, moving on. Then hubs surprised me by bringing this 1930s Craig's List find that had seen better days (many of them, in fact) home.

I know this isn't exactly the cute desk that I had pictured in my head, but that doesn't mean that it didn't have any potential. I knew that a beautiful piece of furniture was hiding beneath
all of those scratches and funky looking stain.



So, with the help of this nifty little sander and a little lot of elbow grease from hubs, things slowly started turning from drab to fab.





And viola! Say hello to my new wedding planning desk & office :)



And my $15 pink chair from IKEA!



Final touches of pink flower knobs completed the project :)




Isn't she pretty! I am now obsessed with my "new" desk!
P.S. GO BUCKEYES!!

26 comments:

  1. wow! You did all that.... looks amazing doll! xxxoo

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  2. Very cute!!! Wishing you best of luck with the wedding planning business!

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  3. too cute! :) we had a hutch refinished 2 years ago in a high gloss black and now it's my favorite piece!

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  4. that is VERY cute! I am currently sanding our $15 Craigslist coffee table, and hope to post before and after pics soon!

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  5. i LOVE your "new" desk. I bought a desk at a rummage over the summer and i'm trying to figure out what kind of fun things I want to do to it.

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  6. how cute!! it turned out perfect!!

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  7. So cute! You did an amazing job!

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  8. i love it. it's freakin adorable. good for you!

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  9. It's soooooo cute!! Love the Pink. You two did a fabulous job. The darn desk looked hopeless but you made it great. I have the same Ikea chair in white!

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  10. Love it!! What a great idea!

    GO BUCKS!!

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  11. Your new desk is great! You did an awesome job of making the desk look brand new!!

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  12. Looks great! I love it when little or in this case BIG personal projects turn out this great! Well done!

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  13. omg, it looks amazing! i love it! sooo cute!

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  14. It turned out so great!! I love it!

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  15. It's beautiful!! Great CL find girl! We've been looking for one too. Hope to find one with mucho potential!

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  16. OK now I want to see the whole room!!!!!

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  17. It's adorable, I love the knobs!

    This post was great until I got to the "Go Buckeyes" part, haha!

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  18. SO jealous!!!! its beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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  19. its very pretty :). I am jealous!

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