Chalkboard Writing Desk

Hi friends! 
Today I'll share how I made my son's chalkboard writing table...

A couple months ago I shared my garage sale finds with the awesome blog Garage Sales R Us. On that day of garage saleing I bought this cabinet for $1...

Gross huh?!
Well all I could envision was a chalkboard writing desk
for my 3yr old son!
I almost broke my back loading it into the car
(that thing is SOLID WOOD!!!).

I brought it home and started working on it.
I sanded the top to remove the patchy lacquer (I used course sandpaper because I did not want the surface to be super smooth since we were chalkboard painting it)...

I removed all the hardware (I am kinda in love with the lion hardware, so cute) and then I removed that weird decorative railing...

I covered and taped off the whole bottom of the cabinet so that only the top would be chalkboard painted. My husband is awesome at spray painting so he helped me paint it...

Then, I ran to the store for a couple hours and when I got home my husband had finished painting the base and he had replaced the hardware! He did not take pictures of the process of painting the base, boo!

We used Krylon Gloss Global Blue spray paint
for the bottom of the cabinet
and
Krylon Chalkboard spray paint 
on the desk top.

The chalkboard writing table,
TA-DA!!!...

I really loved that the desk had holes all along the top of the desk. Why you ask? Well, if you have ever given a hand full of colored pencils or markers to a kid, the first thing they do is line them up on the desk in color order. And then the markers and colored pencils roll all over the place and fall on the ground. I wanted to keep the holes on the desk surface so that my kids could stand up their markers and colored pencils...

When the doors of the cabinet are open, my son can scoot a chair right up and rest his feet inside the cabinet. Plus the cabinet is HUGE and we can use it to store his art supplies...

Ahhhh, I am loving this Chalkboard Writing Desk!!!!
Total cost was $13: $1 desk + $12 in spray paint
Now the O-man and I can work on writing his letters :)

My friend Barbara over at Chase the Star let me guest post about the desk make over - click here to visit that Guest Post.


I also guest posted about this table make-over over at Robin's blog Garage Sales R Us!

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