Free Cycle Desk Makeover

So, have you all heard of Free cycle? If you haven’t you should Google Free cycle for your town. It is great! It’s a group where the member post the stuff they don’t want of need anymore and they are all free for the taking. You can also post your needs and see if another member might just have what your need! It’s pretty darn great and keeps things from going to the dump! so, my daughter wanted a small desk for her room. I figured hey I might as well check free cycle before I go buy one. So, I check the page like once a day and up pops a desk. I contact the poster of the desk and no one has claimed it yet! yea! (That is one thing about free cycle, the good stuff get’s grabbed fast!) They send me a pic and I say yep I’ll take it! WE go pick it up. That’s it! Free Desk!

So of course the desk needs fixing up before it goes in Kayla’s room. That’s when hub’s and I went to work. Here is the desk before…

This is the pic the people who were giving away the desk sent me. Yes, it needed some work, but that didn’t scare me off. We sanded and painted, got some new pretty knobs, we added some fabric and batting to the drawers with a staple gun.

just spray glue on the batting and wrap the fabric around and staple. We put a few coats of glossy black paint on it, and covered the top with some really cool black and white vinyl fabric that matched her room. we added some gimp to finish off the edges of the vinyl. And even put some fun “eyelash” fabric on the sides for fun…the really good thing is that all the fabric we used my Mom already had in her shop They were left overs from our days of sewing for interior designers (before she retired, now that was a fun job) We already had the black paint, so the only thing we bought were the knobs!

So, here is now. in her room. I actually did this at Christmas time but never shared it on my blog

Here are the knobs, you can see once we wrapped the drawers in fabric, we just poked a hole and screwed the knobs in the holes that were already there form the old knobs. We just got the knobs at our local ACE hardware, they were only a few dollars each. The fabric is a black raw silk.

I think it turned out pretty chic and fabulous! Especially for being free

I hope this inspires you to make some old furniture into something new and wonderful, it just takes little imagination and elbow grease!

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