While work is still ongoing in the basement and on the book, I did manage to find a few hours to finish up part of my upcycle project for my appearance at the UsedEverywhere.com booth at Blissdom.

 

I know, I know, all the cool kids are doing two-tone makeovers so I decided to jump on the band wagon. I had the desk frame painted by the fabulous folks at Paint It Like New. When you really want a nice clean finish without any brushstrokes, its worth it to get your furniture professionally sprayed.

The drawers were a different story. I wanted to keep the drawer fronts the stained wood to give some contrast. I decided against having the drawer bodies sprayed white because there was the potential for the drawers to start sticking once they were installed in the desk.

 

So I pulled out my trusty paint brush instead. I taped off the vertical sides with painters tape then applied two coats of Para Paints/Sarah Richardson Fog SR27. Love love love this colour. Its the slightest bluey-green.