{"id":652,"date":"2011-01-17T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2011\/01\/desk-repurposed-to-kitchen-island.html"},"modified":"2012-08-02T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:08:58","slug":"desk-repurposed-to-kitchen-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/01\/desk-repurposed-to-kitchen-island.html","title":{"rendered":"Desk Repurposed To Kitchen Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since we moved into this house in July of 2009 I have really wanted a kitchen island, but the ones I found were either<\/span> ridiculously expensive<\/a><\/span>, too small for our space, or really <\/span>ugly tablesonwheels<\/i> type contraptions<\/a><\/span>. I knew I wanted something big-ish, because we have a relatively large area to fill, and I knew I didn’t want the regular cabinet-look that so many islands have. <\/span>
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I had a little time off after the holidays and when I ran across these two blogs featuring a couple ladies who had made their own islands – My Repurposed Life<\/a> & My Cottage Charm<\/a> – I was inspired to embark on a DIY Kitchen Island Project (despite my complete lack of home improvement tools and\/or knowledge). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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It basically begged for my love.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

My <\/span>skeptical<\/s><\/span> wonderful husband thought I had <\/span>lost my mind when I called him from Goodwill and told him I had just bought this desk and would he come pick it up for me. He begrudgingly agreed in attempts not to stifle my creativity (I have to admit, I was pretty sure I had gone insane as well….did I mention we don’t even own an electric drill at this point??….yah….can you see how this might not turn out so fabulously?). <\/span>
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I made a trip to Lowe’s and got the items I needed to start my project, while I was there I decided to buy myself a random orbital sander and the hubby decided to buy an electric drill, this ended up being a necessity (uh, duh?!).
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I took all the drawers out and assessed the paint situation, which appeared to be a whole-fricken-lot of thick, brown paint slopped onto a coat of white and a coat of primer. This called for more serious measures than my random orbital sander.<\/span>

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This stuff smelled RANK and it looked very similar to a substance I had to gather in saran wrap and do cell counts on in the allergy clinic I used to work at (yes, I made people blow their disgusting snot into a piece of plastic wrap and put it under microscopes to assess – I actually think it’s pretty cool, stop judging me).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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          This is where, he later told me, my husband walked in the
          garage and decided the desk would either stay like this
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I finally got most of the paint off, sanded the areas that would show and painted everything with a coat of primer. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I added an MDF board as the base and attached four wooden legs to get it to the height I wanted. <\/span><\/div>\n

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This is where I stopped taking in-process pictures. Oops (and that is why I’m not a DIY blogger). Here’s a run-down of what I did:<\/span>
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-Nailed on primed & painted bead board panels to ends and back<\/span>
-Added Corner Moulding to give cohesive look<\/span>
-Gave everything one more coat of Valspar Antique White<\/span>
-Stained a piece of solid pine with Minwax Golden Oak<\/span>
-Coated the top with 3,000 coats of Minwax Polycrylic<\/span>
-Fitted the top and screwed on (with help of wonderful husband)<\/span>
-Replaced hardware on drawers<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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     This would be the back of the desk. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Hooks from Hobby Lobby (1\/2 Price!) to hold rolling pin.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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There will be an oak towel rack here, but I want to paint it to match
the island and I haven’t gotten around to it. Use your imaginations.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Hope you still have your imagination hat on, friends. Remember when I mentioned our lack of all things tool-related? Well, that includes a saw. On the other side of the island I plan to add a shelf and cabinet door but, since it would take me approximately 12 years to use our hand saw to cut out my shelf, I am waiting until my dad can come down and help me.  Also, the area where I want a door has strange dimensions, so I’m going to see if I can recruit him to help me with that, too. He’s pretty awesome at that kind of stuff, so hopefully he won’t mind. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n

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I had an absolute blast with this project and I can’t wait to do something else! Thanks so much to My Repurposed Life<\/a> and My Cottage Charm<\/a> for their inspiration and help!! <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we moved into this house in July of 2009 I have really wanted a kitchen island, but the ones I found were either ridiculously expensive, too small for our space, or really ugly tablesonwheels type contraptions. I knew I wanted something big-ish, because we have a relatively large area to fill, and I knew I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}