Upcycled desk for teen

I love finding projects on the side of the road.  I can’t be the only one who does, I mean, people put things out by the curb for free so often now, someone must be picking the stuff up ( not just me).   My family mostly thinks I’m crazy, but after I turn my find into something spectacular, they usually change their tune.   This is especially the case with one of my most recent projects.  It was actually easy, as the piece just needed a little tlc and once I convinced my oldest, it would be a great addition to her room she was redecorating and shared with her ow great he piece could be, she did most of the work.

It’s funny, when I picked this piece up, there were two separate pieces of furniture by the road.  It was rainy and I realized I could only fit one in my car, so I chose this one.  Honestly, I really kind of wanted the other one, but this one was more manageable to load by myself and thus, that is how my oldest got a cute, perfect size desk in her remodeled room.

Really the only things we did was give it a good cleaning (I almost always clean things with a vinegar water mixture), secured a few loose pieces with wood glue and then primed and painted. 

Her new room is a mixture of blue greens and bluish grays, very ocean like, so we decided (I convinced her) that a pop of bright yellow would be great, like the sun bright on a cerulean blue sea.  To tie it in with the room, we also put up yellow chevron curtains that we got for next to nothing at our favorite big red store – Score!

She is pretty happy with her updated room, fresh, quirky and
clean, just in time for her High School years.