This is my new desk area. I’d been wanting a look that was a little less crowded and since it’s in my bedroom I needed it to be less distracting, while I worked and also while I relaxed.
This is the before. See, a little overwhelming. I never thought of taking the roll-top off, duh! I just had to do it.
Here’s another great reason to take it off. Yep, there’s a hole drilled in the top. Hubby was drilling a hole in the back of the desk to bring the computer power cord through but the roll-top was open so he drilled through the top too. Whoops!
Okay, I have to say Rebekah made it sound a lot easier than it was. The screws that held the top on were all buried, so I couldn’t get to them without taking the whole desk apart.
And I mean the whole desk. A project that I thought was only going to take about 20 minutes turned into almost 2 hours. And hubby had to help. Some of the wood was also glued on so we had to use a chisel to take it apart. Ugh!
After I finally got the top off I used gorilla glue and the screws and put everything back together.
It left a couple screw holes in the top of the desk, but I’ll just fill them in with wood filler. Once the weather warms up I’ll be painting it off-white. I can’t wait! While I was taking the desk apart I found out it is wood laminate in a lot of places. Does anyone know how I should go about painting laminate?
Now that the rolltop is gone I need a new place to store things. Do you remember the wonderful gift I got before Christmas from a secret friend? It’s the perfect thing to go above my desk.
I love my Pottery Barn shelf. I added a storage box to hold some of the things that were in the roll-top area.
Then I changed things around and cleaned up my shelves a bit.
And added another file basket under my desk.
Here’s before again. A little too crowded.
And here’s after. Much better!
Yes, I like it a lot. It has a pleasant retro look to me. I too work on a desk without enough storage for desk-type stuff. I’ll be taking some of your ideas. Thank you.
When we got our laptops our desk went out to the curb! I use a wooden file cabinet and matching 2 tier shelf(both on rollers) plus a skinnt wooden tray with a shelf to make up my “desk” now and it is nice.
What did you do with the roll top? And the drawer unit in the next to last picture?
That looks so good! I’m sure you’ll appreciate it every time you sit down to write a blog. 🙂
Anna
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Wow… I am always amazed when small changes make such a big difference in spaces. Looks great!
I don’t have personal experience with painting laminate but I have read about Zinsser being wonderful for it. Here is a link by Kate@Centsational Girl. http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2010/04/go-right-ahead-and-paint-that-laminate/
That looks sooo much better, great job!
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I love how organized your space is, and I love the wall decor!
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Kelly
Really cute!!! I love how you changed it up!
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