Trash to treasure… from table to kid’s desk.

This table was another side-of-the-road freebie.

Nothing fancy.

I could have just painted it.

But I had a little more of a vision for this one…

I had to enlist the help of my husband.

He’s got a lot of scrap wood in his shop, and since we are in a rough financial spot right now, we are trying to utilize whatever we have here at the house and kill two birds with one stone.

You know, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

I guess that’s three birds.

Anyway, I wanted to turn this into more of a kids’ desk and add a couple shelves to the table.

I didn’t want to take up too much of the surface of the desk, but the shelves needed to be deep enough to put books and stuff on.

So I asked my husband to extend the back of the legs, and then build a simple shelf, about 6 inches deep to place on top of it.

Then he primed it.

 

He added a piece of plywood that he a already had onto the back.

Then, we painted the whole thing white.

We painted the surface of the desk with chalkboard paint.

And now….

It looks like this:

From this:

  To this!

How freaking cute is that?

A little creativity and thinking outside the box, or desk, goes a long way!

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