Take that, Pottery Barn
I finished the desk!
Here’s the desk after an ungodly amount of sanding and scraping:
Let the finishing process begin! I can’t begin to describe the joy I felt when I saw that the stain was soaking into the wood, rather than beading up (which would have happened if I wasn’t successful in scraping and sanding away the old varnish).
Molly was a huge help, obviously.
Of course, I didn’t manage to finish the desk before the arrival of my friend Brianna, who was staying with me while she was in town for our mutual friend’s wedding. I still needed to install the new drawer pulls, so that all the crap I had unloaded on the guest bed could go back into the drawers.
Fortunately for me, Brianna was quite adept at concealing her horror at having to live for the weekend in a room coated in a quarter inch of sawdust and reeking of polyurethane. Even better, she is a surgical nurse who has experience using power tools to drill into bone. I put her straight to work on the drawer pulls.
(Guests at my house get the royal treatment, eh?)
At long last, the desk is finished. And, so far, the stain hasn’t been rubbing off. I’m pretty proud of myself.
For the sake of comparison, let’s not forget where we began:
And the finished product:
It’ll look even better once we get rid of that grodacious carpeting!
Oh my gosh Amanda. I want to be all home-makey like you. Instead I make lists of all the projects to complete when I find a job. Ha. I love projects like this – looks awesome!
It looks SO GREAT!
I’m so proud of you!!!
So, when will you be accepting orders for furniture?