Handyman Life

July 19, 2015 in Uncategorized

Adding Lacquer & Lace To A Tired Desk

Everyone has bought that one piece of furniture. At a garage sale or a thrift store, they become convinced that they will be the ones to save a couch, desk or vanity from furniture purgatory. Unfortunately, so often these pieces get shoved into the recesses of a basement or garage after purchase, never to be touched again. Well, Rlcollins3 offers a different path for those impulse desk buyers with just a few coats of paint and a lace application.

These are the required supplies to achieve this look:

• Kilz primer
• Behr Polar Bear White paint
• Target Devine Pond paint
• Polyacrylic paint
• White Satin finish spray paint
• Silver spray paint
• Martha Stewart Metallic paint
• Lace fabric
• Trash bag

Apply the Kilz primer to the surface of the desk as well as the front of all the desk drawers. After this dries, paint these same surfaces with two coats of Devine Pond paint.

 

 

Following the painting process, place a drawer in a trash bag, only leaving the front exposed. Cover the whole front of the drawer in lace, securing the trash bag tightly around the drawer to keep the lace in place. Spray white spray paint over the lace pattern. Remove the lace and repeat this step for each drawer.

For extra touches of flair, use the Martha Stewart Metallic paint on the trim of both the desk’s surface and the edges of the drawers. Spray paint all the hardware with silver spray paint.

 

With the handles in place and drawers pushed in, this long ignored desk of drabness found its way to furniture salvation.