Old Project - writing desk for my wife

Made this about 17 years ago. Also made a computer desk at that time with 3" thick top. No pics of the desk as my wife has it in her office at work.

CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!

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Comments

lanwater commented almost 7 years ago

Pretty well done.
Did you turn the legs as well?

Abbas, Castro Valley, CA

Thorreain commented almost 7 years ago

No Ian, I bought the legs. The paint I used was mixed with linseed oil and whitewash. Started by bleaching everything. Then painted some and the table top is straight linseed oil and varnish mixed, my grandfathers recipe.

CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!

lanwater commented almost 7 years ago

I had to lookup paint and whitewash… Never heard of it before.

Thanks!

Abbas, Castro Valley, CA

Thorreain commented almost 7 years ago

I have done a lot of experimenting with bleaching and paint bases in poly for different types of furniture for work years ago. Bleaching wood then adding pigments before staining and mixing different types of stain and paint can be very exciting.

CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!

Jack King commented almost 7 years ago

Very nice! Beautiful contrast.

Jack

a1jim commented over 6 years ago

You did a wonderful job a super design.

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Thorreain commented over 6 years ago

Thanks Jim, The design was more of what I had laying around. Knobs from a kitchen set, crown moulding from a Reno at work, the wave at the top was just about as plain and easy as I could do with my jigsaw. In the end the colours are what made this piece.

CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!