Eric Appel - Director

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Craft Project #19 - Desk Rehab

I found this desk at my favorite thrift store in L.A. and I couldn’t resist its run-down charms. This, despite the fact that I already HAVE a desk with almost the exact same lines, and the fact that a (sane) person really doesn’t need more than one desk in her home. I was originally going to paint the drawer fronts, but after stripping and sanding the whole thing, I discovered that the wood was actually still in amaaaazing shape. And once I applied Danish Oil finish and saw the result, I was sold on leaving it au natural. I hit a little bit of a snag when I discovered that not all of the wood on the lower part of the desk was the same type as the drawer-fronts and those parts came out a different color when I oiled them up. When you added in the faux-wood laminate top, it just looked a little too hodge-podgy with all the different woods going on, so I solved the problem by painting the contrasting parts white and I LOVE how it turned out. I found some new hardware to replace the broken and missing drawer pulls and voila! It came out looking so sweet that I rearranged our apartment and found room for it. Welcome home, new friend!

When Sussy showed me this gorgeous “After” picture, we had this exchange:

ME: Ooh, damn girl! That’s sharp. I love that clean modern look— whites and woods. When we buy a house, we should do it all in whites and woods.
SUSS (bit): …and that’s the same thing you say about our country, right? It should go back to just “whites and woods”?
ME: (yes and’ing, adopting drawl) Yep, get back to what our forefathers intended: just us whites, living in the woods. Like God wanted.

And that’s how the Kula-Buckets family connects Danish modern furniture refinishing to white supremacist militia rhetoric in one easy bit!

Wow!  What an amazing find, an amazing restoration, and an amazing bit of racism!