The kidney desk.

I bought this desk about a year and a half ago when the local goodwill would carry such beautiful pieces at great prices! ( now a days it's just compressed wood/ funky looking furniture.) when I first saw it I knew it was supposed to be mine! Her unique shape, and she had "THE LEGS". At the time I loved anything with Queen Anne's legs.

This is how I got her, all original. She was too faded to leave as is. And I was clueless of how to restore...

And this was her first look! I wanted white and I wanted blue. And of course a dark stained top.
So, I came up with this! I could have both colors I wanted!

So done she was and right away put in her forever spot. Which was in my room. I'll be honest I wasn't careful with her. I would craft, write, and do make-up, which all the tools used to do those things WOULDN'T be gently put on her. I DIDNT put felt pads on half the things that rested upon her, not helping being dragged on the top. She was scratched and it was all my fault. After a year of abuse, I decided to give it another make over. This time for her to go to a new home.

Here's makeover # 2.

Same old prepping was done, sanding and reinforcing a leg that had became loose.

I've painted it a mix I made with Martha Stewarts Precious Metals and regular blue paint.
It's not too shimmery but enough to shine beautifully in lighting.




If she doesn't sell at the asking price, nothing lower, I'm keeping it!

Thanks for looking!
Xoxo
Kyra



Participated at:

Mid Century Makeovers

It's been alittle busy here lately because of all the custom refurbishments we had to do for some clients in the past month. All that is done now. We can move on to new things that just came in.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

These desks have been done for awhile but I finally had the time to post them. These were actually some freebies from the cities annual clean up, which you can read about it here.

Mid century desk #1
This desk wasn't so bad when we picked it up. The leg was screwed off but that was it. It was very clean, all it needed was a wipe down and then off to painting.

The before.



Not so bad, quite nice actually for being original but of course here at Chateau Revivals, we prefer things painted.

And then...

The after









She was painted a custom grey/blue along with Kona stained drawers and legs, she was then after sealed with a poly.

She looks totally different, it's so modern! More our style!



Mid century desk #2

Here's one that had its problems. This thing was actually a sewing machine, with no sewing machine. The finish was super chipped off, the top had the sewing machine hole along with imprints of what used to be tile?? Someone tortured this poor thing.

The before..



The after







A brand new top was bought, the whole thing was sanded down to bare bone. She was painted Behr's paint and primer Zen. The top is stained Varathane's Early American stain.

She's all better now, and of course super cute!



Thanks for looking!

Check back for what we have to show next!
I promise you it's such eye candy!





img src="http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj590/russej10/WW2_zps4d01c63f.jpg" border="0"/>

The secretive dresser

When I first saw this dresser, which was upside down on its top, with the drawers jammed,  for some reason I couldn't pass it up.. Little did I know of its secret.. Not to mention its flaws. I took it without thoroughly inspecting it, I was excited. I could see past the years of its filth ( this thing was filthy). The shape was so cute, the curves and the 2 mini drawers had me sold.

This is the before. It was a honey color but after all the scrubbing with ammonia,

it was 5 shades lighter than the original color. 

You can see al the grime run down!

After all the bar work on the drawers, scraping the veneer and fixing the bottoms ..

This is the beautiful ever after!

Did I mention it was actually a complete set with the mirror....

The drawers were stained 3 coats with Kona. (This wood was stubborn it didn't want to catch the stain)
They're protected with Varathanes water based poly, gloss.

The beautiful knobs are from Hobby Lobby, which go perfect with the paint color, which is a medium grey.

Oh.. Here's that secret I mentioned.... A SECRET DRAWER!! A secret button opens it, convienient for your secret things.

The legs are so cute, not too cury, yet not too simple.

Thanks for looking!

http://www.dwellings-theheartofyourhome.com/

Its Party Time