Vintage Children’s Desk Makeover

We love a fresh clean start! You can see the difference here how much better it is looking already.

I knew I wanted to keep the three chair spindles in the middle natural wood color rather than paint, to give the piece a modern and fresh look.

Here is the Surfprep working its magic on the roll top slats. The curved pad keeps the profile safe and doesn’t damage or strip the wood of its shape. After everything was sanded, BIN primer was applied to the parts that were going to be painted. We sprayed two coats of Country Chic Paint in a color called Peachy Keen, lightly sanding in between each coat and removing dust with a tack cloth

To seal, we sprayed two coats of their Tough Coat. After it was dry, we decided to do some decoupage and molding for the drawers.

We used mod podge for the floral paper, laying down one coat, placing the paper, letting it dry then placing another two coats over it to seal. We then used some rope molding cut with the miter saw to frame the drawers. Lastly, we used really cool bendable moldings from Woodubend to cover the joints where the moldings meet.

With Woodubend you use an air gun or hairdryer to heat up the molding, then wood glue to attach.

Here is a close up of the completed drawers.

Here it is freshly madeover. We are sure this will make a little girl very happy.

Thanks for following along.