Refurbished Oak Desk

Yaaaaaaaaay it's done!  It took a long time.  Yes it did. I thought the desk was a poor buy (even though it was only 25 dollars) because the top had this gross piece of vinyl on it, and parts of the desk are plywood with veneer overtop.  Fortunately, I managed to rip the vinyl off and the top doesn't look half bad, "rustic" let's call it.  Besides, once it was painted black, who could tell if it's plywood + veneer instead of solid wood... no one! Here is the

   Before:

Refurbished Bankers Chair

Oookay the chair .... is .... done.  Almost. I still have to put the the sealer on it and add a couple of screws but for aesthetic (i.e. pretty white purposes) it is done.  It took a lot longer than expected because as usual, yours truly plowed ahead before doing adequate research because I was too excited.  Lesson learned? Probably never.

So we're going to pretend the part where I impulsively spray painted the chair white, which resulted in a permanently sticky texture and me having to strip it (see photo below) and start over, never happened.  

After spray painting ... and subsequent stripping