Before Together With After: Vintage Desk
This vintage desk was such a fun project, it was a costless desk passed to me from a household unit of measurement friend. I’m the minute possessor of it too it was inwards the worst possible shape. Chipped laminate too veneer, crude oil plywood edges too chewed upwards legs. I could encounter yesteryear all of this stuff, I saw awesome legs, bang-up hardware too thence much potential.
I knew I could give it a novel life amongst a piddling fighting of sanding too a few coats of paint. The affair amongst vintage pieces is that yous conduct keep to select the bits of grapheme yous can’t change, fifty-fifty afterward patching too sanding at that spot all the same may endure only about bumps too dents, but over again it’s all business office of the grapheme of the piece.
I started yesteryear patching whatsoever obvious holes, too then sanded them down. I honour fifty-fifty afterward doing an initial field too sand, yous all the same can’t encounter all of the scratches on the surface, thence I commonly produce a sparse coat of primer on the entire slice too this brings out whatsoever defects. Once the primer is dry, I become dorsum inwards too field whatsoever areas that are actually obvious, sand them downwards too apply only about other two coats of primer.
Once the surface was dry, I applied 2-3 coats of Benjamin Moore Advance inwards Mantis Green too Snowfall White.
The legs are stained using Danish Oil, because I wanted to encounter only about forest grain too conduct keep to a greater extent than of a natural expect to the piece. Plus yous can’t become incorrect amongst mint green, white too wood!
Here’s a few shots of Andrew sanding the legs downwards to raw forest thence they could endure coated amongst 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 piddling fighting of fun to the overall look, addition the plated brass feet were inwards horrible sort thence it was necessary to produce something to them because they couldn’t endure saved.
Here’s the terminal result:
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