French Provincial desk before and after

So, this  little desk was found by my Mother. She called me and said I bought a desk for you from someone in her community was moving  and selling furniture. The very next day I picked it up from her house ( I was impressed that she picked up a cute little French style desk) and brought it home. After, looking at the desk I knew this desk was going to be a pain. Stickers on top and 2 or 3 different coats of white paint slap on body of desk.

First, I started on top to remove all the stickers carefully. The big stickers were not so bad to get off but the little ones were a pain. Using Goof off and Mineral spirit to get stickers off.  Now the body part. I tried to smooth the paint out but It didn't work much. Here is a picture I took while I was already adding strip gel to it. Hard to see on picture. 

 Left it overnight for the gel to kick in. Next day peeled all the paint off sanded and cleaned it up. Painted color is between silver/light grey color with gold accents. After, several hours of labor it came out gorgeous. 

                                                        ( Sold) Thank you Denise!

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Antique Decoupage Desk Makeover

I transformed this plain boring antique desk into a beautiful contemporary piece. When, I brought this desk home it was in good condition. After, it sat in the garage for a few days, finally I decided how I wanted this desk to be done.

Cleaned it and didn't bother to sand it. It was smooth like new.

Just so you know this desk was done awhile back about 2 or 3 weeks before Christmas. My lovely husband surprised me with an early Christmas gift. He got me a Wagner spray gun! So, he wanted to see how it works on this desk. As you can see it got it's first coat of primer on.

Before testing it on desk we practiced on huge cardboard to understand how it works and adjust it. After 2 coats of primer next was to be painted black and last was the sealer. Thanks to my husband for painting this desk for me.

While my husband was spray painting, I started working on the drawers. I bought this cute paper stock to decoupage the drawers.  Here are the drawers using 2 different types of stock paper

Gave them a nice few coats of sealer. Next, Spray painted the original knobs black.

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