Last Monday I shared a European pillow sham tutorial from my sisters bedroom makeover and now I am sharing another installment of her makeover…bringing thrift store furniture to life! This desk and filing cabinet are now in her bedroom but take a peek at what this desk used to look like!
Here is this bad boy before Tiff rescued it from her local Thrift store…..ugly mugly don’t you think? Missing a drawer, dirty, beat up etc.. I think she paid $30.00 bucks for it..the knobs were pretty cute so we got this desk lifted up into her suburban with the help of some men from the thrift store and after she got it home she turned it into a masterpiece.
First she painted it white and put it in kitchen..sooo cute!! Look at the details of the legs..you didn’t even notice them before it was painted all white and pretty! Tiffany didn’t skip a beat with the fact that a drawer was missing…she simply took out the other drawer and found some cute baskets to put in their places. Brilliant!
Then she moved it into her sewing room and used it in here for her computer desk and added the cute paper flowers above she made following this
tutorial, and she also found this frame for $3.00 and made a pin board to go above it. The office chair she found for free and recovered it! You can see the tutorial
here. Is she AMAZING or what!!
Tiffany loves to move things around so she now has moved this desk to her bedroom and covered the top with fabric…just stapling the fabric to the underneath section of the desk top. You could add a little trim to keep the underneath edges to keep the fabric from hanging down but she said you don’t even notice. Tiff also suggested purchasing some clear acrylic fabric to go over the cloth fabric and stapling that over the top to protect the fabric from stains…great idea for a kids desk area! Instant new piece of furniture with just a bit of paint and fabric!
I don’t have a before picture of this wooden filing cabinet…but I know you have seen these everywhere at thrift stores and garage sales. Once again she got out some white paint and painted this sucker to match the desk. Then because she didn’t like the brass hardware she took them off and spray painted them silver..and HELLO!! Looks like Pottery Barn to me!
Here are some more of her thrift store finds!! OOOH there is the filing cabinet before it was painted! Oh and this peachy colored chair is the same chair that is now red in her bedroom!
Karins KottageWelcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with!
You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too!
I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!