Is your work space lacking personality???
Are you sitting at a boring desk all day???
Emily (my friend and invaluable team member) was…..LOL! So I changed that! On a visit to her home…..I changed the look of her workspace by painting this desk in just a few short hours on a Saturday morning! It really is so easy to do once get over the fear of change and stop overthinking the process!
Just choose a color that makes you happy and DO IT!!!
You can see below….Emily’s desk in its “before” state…..not ugly….just sort of boring in the space. She has the beautiful artwork between the two “already enough brown” bookshelves…..so we chose to pull the vibrant cobalt blue from the canvas for the desk!
I chose Cobalt Blue by Dixie Belle! It is such a rich and true blue that you can’t help but love it! I applied only two coats of the paint….using my favorite brush (Dixie Belle FL…meaning “flat large”). When you paint something this large….by the time you cover all the surface once….it is already dry and ready for the second coat once you get back around to where you started!
For those of you that ask how much paint to use on a piece this size…..this 16 oz jar covered an entire executive desk leaving about half the jar of paint in the end! It really does have incredible coverage and a little bit goes a very long way!
I allowed the paint to dry and rest for about two hours. I then returned to “glaze” the desk. I made my own “glaze” with Dixie Belle’s Caviar black paint…..mixed with water….about 1:1. I worked in sections….painting the mixture on with a brush and wiping back off with a wet paper towel. The dark color settled in the cracks of the desk and overall toned the vibrancy of the blue. It instantly aged and deepened the overall look which is exactly what Emily wanted!
I allowed that to dry before applying Gator Hide Sealer as the top coat. You can see the gorgeous sheen on the legs of the desk below. This is the reason I use Gator Hide! It leaves the most gorgeous sheen!! I applied three thin coats of the sealer for the final finish.
The leg of Emily’s desk needed repair….so we were unable to move it around for proper staging. But I was able to grab this photo before I left town. You can certainly see what a difference it makes in her office space! It allows the space to flow nicely with her adjoining master bedroom…which is accents with cobalt as well.
If you love this bold vibrant cobalt blue as much as I do, you should see my cobalt blue dresser with metallic hardware. It’s equally fun and vibrant!
It was such an easy project……yet makes such a huge impact on the space! And more than anything…..EMILY love her new bold cobalt blue desk! It is my hope that she will feel like the rockstar and girl boss that she really is while she works from this room!
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XOXO,
Tracey
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So interesting that you made your own glaze just from paint. I’ve read about that before and I think I’ve tried it but it never came off enough and always looked awful. Sooo..I’m going to try again using a wet appear towel. And work in small sections ?. Also, love the finish look of waxed furniture so I often use a product call Polyvine Wax Varnish. Do you think the sheen of Gator Hide is shinier?
I just LOVE your enthusiasm about everything! And your videos! Wish you could get to the Myrtle Beach, SC area sometime for a class!
Wow…that color just changes the whole vibe in that office. BEAUTIFUL!!
Did you sand first?