summer project #2

I should have titled this summer project #1 because I actually did this one first. We got this hand-me-down desk when we were newlyweds and it was beat up and I wanted a change. I decided to make my own change.


I had to laugh at myself because here I am so sick of white walls and talk about how I am so excited to one day be in a place where I can paint my walls a color other than white and then what do I do? I re-do my furniture and paint it WHITE! However, my walls will not always be white and when that day comes, this desk is going to look great against a non-white wall and it is very versatile so it can go with whatever color I so choose...so there.

If you will notice, the chair in this picture is a little brown. I went to Walmart to get some black paint for my kitchen chairs and would you believe they don't sell "BLACK" paint. I was a little surprised but picked a color that looked black to me called "oil lamp." Guess what? oil lamp is not black. I decided to test it out on this chair first.....and yep it was brown! dark brown but still brown and not what I wanted. I took it back to Walmart and had them re-tint it. I had to beg a little but it turned out. I still haven't re-painted this chair though but now I'm thinking a red chair would be nice and would suffice