School Desk Makeover

A couple years ago, I found an old school desk for my youngest daughter. The rest of the family had his or her own desk, she needed one, too. Right? It was terribly ugly, but I knew I could take care of that problem with a little paint. However, the project ended up on the back burner until recently when my daughter brought up the subject.

Last Saturday we had a really beautiful and pleasant day - a perfect day for a paint project on the deck.

Here's the before picture. When I bought the desk, it was painted a plain off-white color. Very ugly. You can see that my daughter added some doodling to the desktop area, and that gave me the idea to paint the desktop with chalkboard paint. Then she could continue to write on the desktop without messing up the paint.

I had her decide what color she wanted to paint the rest of the desk. She first chose blue. Then green. And finally settled on yellow.

I used a high-gloss indoor/outdoor latex paint so I wouldn't have to worry about a clear coat. We used some old flower stamps from my craft closed to add a little decoration. 

 - You'll find these same flowers used in several projects in my blog!! 

My daughter wanted black flowers to match the black chalkboard desktop, and I used a glossy acrylic craft paint for them. Then I added some yellow flowers to the desktop using the same yellow paint used for the rest of the desk.

We think the result turned out great, and most importantly, my daughter loves it. She just gushed over it and absolutely could not wait for me to give her the clearance to sit at her "new" desk and draw on the desktop.

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Psalm 127:3