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Student desks turned craft table

July 29, 2013 By: Melanie

This is an UPDATE.    I submitted this desk to the adorable Mandi from Vintage Revivals during a week of craft fails she was doing and she posted it on her blog!  Guys! She’s a big deal and so Steff and I were super pumped to be featured on her blog…..even if it was a FAILURE project.  Ha ha:)  (Check out our claim to fame feature HERE.)
This is the true story of how this project started:

This is my Chevron reclaimed school desk!  Like many projects-I just started on a whim the second I felt motivated.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have any white paint.   I did have some OLD cream colored paint though;  I was in project mode and I was using it! We can see how well that worked out.  Turns out, paint DOES go bad!   After some extra elbow grease and a trip to my beloved Home Depot, I started again with some fresh white paint and went with stripes instead. 
Who knew craft fails were such a hit?  
We’ll definitely be sure to share more as they do happen often. 🙂 
UPDATE ended. 🙂

I have 5 school desks in my house now.  I have a small obsession with them.  I can’t say I would be able to pass up a few more if I get the chance.  I’ve still got a few plans and ideas I’d like to try. You can see what I’ve done with 3 of the 5desks in this post.  And the other 2 have found a home in my craft room.  Quick history on my craft room:  Oh man-I have dreamed of having a craft room! Our house is a multi level and has a large room just off the family room.  It was the perfect playroom, and then I realized after a year and a half that the kids didn’t play in the playroom.  It was just where the toys were stored and moved in and out of.  So I took it over;  and felt a little guilty about it, but my guilt was short lived.  My kids haven’t missed the playroom one bit-the bins of toys are in a closet across the hall and in the unfinished basement where they love to play.  Win-win!  My craft hoarding is neatly contained into one room and I can leave projects mid-project and not have to clean everything up.  Best ever. : )

On to the desks!
They started out like this:
 Gum and everything!
After I slapped on some rubber gloves to scrape off the gum (so gross….)  I cleaned the entire desk really well, removed the wire basket and sprayed them with white primer.
Then I sprayed them with 2 coats of Aqua.
Next, I taped off some random sized stripes on the tops.
Two coats of white-
Then I finished them with a spray sealer.

They are the perfect craft table: they are light so I can easily move them if needed.  They make a long, skinny ‘table’ which fits perfectly as an island work area in the room. 
Plus they are super cool!
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