It's part functional, part kitchy, part country. We found a light-stained, slightly ratty desk by a dumpster on the evening of July 31st (mega move-out day for tenants in Fort Collins). We, and a group of friends and new-acquaintances, walked the desk back to our friends house. Actually, some guy put it on his back and carried it almost a mile...insane.
Nonetheless, (surprise surprise!) we painted it with the same color as the bathroom wall, a greenish color and bought some chalkboard paint. We will have to buy a different brand of chalkboard spray paint because this wasn't the same as the kind I used for our Chalkboard Coffee Table; this one has an extremely matte finish and is actually kind of gritty. Sad. But I thought I'd throw it up there anyway. It was pretty painless to do this and didn't cost us more than 1.5 cans of chalkboard paint.
Side note: The black desk chair in the photo was also a fix-me-up found by our dumpster for our apartment complex. Free and it just involved tightening down some screws! Pottery Barn, watch out. :)
PSS. Notice the Dwell Magazines in the second photo? Also a FreeCycle find. Join your local group. I'm excited that I got a bunch of free magazines to read, cut up, repurpose.
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