The backstory: My sweetie's office closed several years ago (a geologist's life is a series of changes) and we grabbed some of the furniture, including four desks. Yep, I said four desks. All of which have been occupying one-third of our three-car garage since.
Why would we do such a crazy thing, you ask? Well, we'd rescued a desk previously and our younger son transformed it from a clunky blackish-stained monstrosity to a gorgeous natural wood desk with sleek pulls that he's used as his computer desk since. So there were two more of these diamonds in the rough available, but somehow as we started stripping and sanding, we forgot how much time and effort was needed for metamorphosis. So our garage has been home to one almost-completely-sanded and one unstarted oak office desk for eons.
Oddly enough, this is the one that we didn't begin on that's almost ready to sell. I went two-tone which meant that I only had to sand the top--love the contrast between the rich wood and dark finish. I kept the original drawer pulls but I spray painted them in brushed nickel.
Now I "just" have to reassemble the innards so that locking mechanism works again. And then work on Desk Number Two. Will it never end...sigh.
Be (INSPIRE)d,
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