Thursday, October 13, 2011

Heywood Wakefield Desk as Side Table

You may recognize the below photo. It was the photo I posted when blogging about the vintage chair I transformed by removing the chair skirt.



This photo was staged, though - I ended up selling the chair and I actually have a small armless loveseat in this spot. I had a brown side table that I got at Salvation Army years ago but I've never LOVED it... when I picked up a Heywood Wakefield children's desk recently, though, I knew I wanted to do a switcheraoo!

In my impatience, I didn't wait until daylight to take a photo. Forgive me. :) Here's the desk in place!



I love it! It is really unique and adds a lot of personality to the room. The brown table was functional but really boring.




What a fun transformation! And the best part? This desk was actually CHEAPER than the original table. I paid $15 for the table at Salvation Army but only $6 for this desk! Amazing!

Do any of you have a desk like this that you're using in your house? What do you do with the cubby? I will probably start keeping my magazines there, but I'm not sure yet!

4 comments:

  1. love that desk! i've always wanted one of those super old school wood desks in my house. i'm forever keeping my eyes open.
    ~dani

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  2. so fun! :) It looks great there jamie. Why didn't we take before/after pictures??? we call ourselves bloggers? hmph!
    lyb
    mom

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  3. I have 2 of these but for the life of me I can not figure out hOw to adjust the legs down!! =)

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  4. hmm! is yours a high schoolers desk? mine is for little kids, so it was short enough already... good luck!

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