EXQUISITE MAHOGANY DESK

Hello people!!

Today's post is about a Mahogany desk I did. This desk was in excellent condition.

When I brought it home I went ahead and cleaned it up. My plan was to stain the whole desk.
                                                         Here is the desk before . Plain boring??

I knew this desk will take me a good whole week to work on it.  Slowly sanded down to it's bare grain. It took me 5 tiring days to sand it down.
                                                                       Day 2

                                                                   Day 4

On the next day, my crazy wild mind decided not to stain it after all the sanding I did. Decided to do something different. Paint it to be an Eclectic and glam style.  So, I cleaned up the desk to make sure there was no dust on it and did 2 coats of primer that day.

 It sat for 2 days without being touched after it was primed..

Rich blue body paint...

When I started working on the top I had a major disaster.

The whole left side and leg was spilled with another color paint. Right away I cleaned it up with damp rug and was able to take off the other color off..  But as for the floors ugh took forever to clean up!!

Are you ready to see this amazing transformed desk?  Here it is Hammered copper top paint, with rich blue body and gold mate  hardware finish!!

                                                               Rich blue body

                                                   Copper finish on top with a glossy feel

                                                                Gold Finish hardware

 What do you all think??
In person it looks so glamour and exotic

Thanks for stopping by
Maria

DIY Upholstered Headboard..

Hi all! Hope you are doing great!

I am finally getting over to my bedroom  that was done months ago. My bedroom was just plain old, boring and ugly.  To  purchase a new bedroom set now was not in my list due having little ones on board. So, why not paint my furniture pieces??

I painted my dressers Grey. Then came across my 9 feet long cream headboard!

Paint or Upholstery?


Picture below is before..I know you can't see the night stands due to the crib being there.

Why not upholster it?

 The head board  was hideous and very hard.  Off to a Fabric store. I  Bought the foam batting and 3 and half yards of fabric. To be honest, I was a little scared to upholster something so BIG! Never done anything bigger than a cushion seat.

   

Next day got to work with it. I sprayed the foam on the head board.
Picture below spray adhesive and foam. I bought( 2) 1 inch foam. The headboard was in different layers. Bottom part got 2 inch layer and the top thin part got only 1 inch foam. Had to even it out..

 Last, was the fabric thank God for my mother in law  came  in just in time to help rescue me with the fabric. As I mention before it's 9 feet long. You do need 2 people on this 3.5 yards of fabric. Together we laid the fabric down and made sure it was straight before we started to staple it.  I am so thrilled of the outcome. It's very plush and comfy head board.  My whole bedroom furniture makeover costed me $130.00. The foam and the batting were the most expensive items.

Gotta say it was easy to do..


Maria

Campaign 3 drawer dresser..

Hi Friends!

Today's post is a campaign dresser I got. This is the 1st item I ever purchased from a Thirft store. Brought in excellent condition just needed clean up and paint.

 I did not even bother to sand it down. I just went right along with 2 coats of primer. Once done , I painted 4 coats of high gloss blue paint and then I cleaned up the hardware and boom it was done. I love that this item can be used as a dresser or even a nightstand. 

                                                            Bringing  Old to New LIfe!!!

                                                                      SOLD

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DIY Decoupage world map desk

Hi Friends! Today's post is an exciting one for me! I find this little antique desk for a steal. Came home cleaned it up. First, I replaced the back of the desk because it was worn out. I cut a new plywood for the back.

 Lightly sanded it, prime and painted it a very light blue. Once I painted, I knew I wanted to do a world map on top. I already had a map paper. As you can see in the picture below.

Sadly, once I started to Mod Podge it, it ripped. Failed!! So, back to cleaning up the top desk again. This time at Joann's Fabric I picked up a World map for project crafts. This paper is thick and i had No issues.

  I cut the map to it's size. Using a sponge foam brush to mod podge the desk then, quickly smoothed it out..
Slowly, working around  the edges was tricky.  Once map was done I did 4  coats of minwax polycrylic.

Last was to work on the handles. I really wanted to order suitcase handles but the cost was out of my budget. Came up with an idea to use Leather for it. I found tons of scrap leather at Michael's using a coupon it came to less than $8.00.  Used a ruler to cut out strips then I punched holes with a leather punch. Had to let hubby do this part since I couldn't punch the hole through.

Once we punched the holes on all leather strips, Hubby got out the roller and tied a rubber band around the leather pieces around to form them. We left it overnight.

Next day, we purchased the screws for the leather and started drilling the drawers.

I must say I am pretty darn impressed with myself on this project! Also, thanks to my wonderful hubby giving me a hand on this project! 

Now it's at one of my customers home!

Thank you D for sending me a picture.

Have a Blessed Day!

Maria

DIY Pumpkin burlap coffee bag

Hi all!

I had this old coffee bean bag for a few year's now. I was planning on using it for my laundry room but never came to it. Trying to figure out what to do with it. I came up with an idea to make a pumpkin from it.

It's very easy to do! First, I painted the bag orange. Using a sponge brush to paint it was not so easy, but since I already had orange paint in hand I went a long with it.  (spray paint is best option)

 Leaving 1/3 of it brown on top. Once paint dried, I got out the black garbage plastic bag and started to fill it  with bunch of newspapers or scrap paper.

Once, I got it filled to where I wanted it, I used a thick rubber band to tie the top. I made my boys to cut the eyes, nose and mouth out of felt fabric. Using adhesive glue I added the felt to the burlap bag. Last, I finished decorating the top with some Raffia and leaves.

Cute burlap coffee pumpkin bag!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Maria