Before Together With After: Vintage Desk

This vintage desk was such a fun project, it was a costless desk passed to me from a identify unit of measurement friend. I’m the instant possessor of it in addition to it was inwards the worst possible shape. Chipped laminate in addition to veneer, fossil oil plywood edges in addition to chewed upwards legs. I could meet yesteryear all of this stuff, I saw awesome legs, dandy hardware in addition to thus much potential.

I knew I could give it a novel life alongside a petty chip of sanding in addition to a few coats of paint. The affair alongside vintage pieces is that you lot receive got to receive got the bits of graphic symbol you lot can’t change, fifty-fifty afterward patching in addition to sanding at that spot even thus may survive closed to bumps in addition to dents, only in ane lawsuit again it’s all role of the graphic symbol of the piece.

I started yesteryear patching whatever obvious holes, in addition to thus sanded them down. I discovery fifty-fifty afterward doing an initial land in addition to sand, you lot even thus can’t meet all of the scratches on the surface, thus I unremarkably produce a sparse coat of primer on the entire slice in addition to this brings out whatever defects. Once the primer is dry, I acquire dorsum inwards in addition to land whatever areas that are actually obvious, sand them downwardly in addition to apply closed to other ii coats of primer.

Once the surface was dry, I applied 2-3 coats of Benjamin Moore Advance inwards Mantis Green in addition to Snowfall White.

The legs are stained using Danish Oil, because I wanted to meet closed to woods grain in addition to receive got to a greater extent than of a natural await to the piece. Plus you lot can’t acquire incorrect alongside mint green, white in addition to wood!
Here’s a few shots of Andrew sanding the legs downwardly to raw woods thus they could survive coated alongside Danish Oil.

I dipped the tips of the legs inwards the same Mantis Green pigment I used on the drawer fronts to add together a petty chip of fun to the overall look, summation the plated brass feet were inwards horrible variety thus it was necessary to produce something to them because they couldn’t survive saved.
Here’s the terminal result:

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