Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts

1/22/2021

REFINISHING: A KLIMT INSPIRED SECRETARY DESK



A dark green secretary desk with gold handles and spaces full of papers, cluttered with objects from college life including a laptop, jar of water, basket of oranges, books and a bouquet of red and yellow roses. above the desk is a calendar with art by Gustav Klimt, and a bulletin board with postcards from friends.


Hello!


I spent this past summer gradually collecting pieces of furniture for my first apartment in Philadelphia. After living in a dorm for a year, I was eager to move into a space that was uniquely my own. (It's a rite of passage for people around my age) Part of my room planning process was figuring out how to style the things I already had alongside the pieces that I picked up from thrift stores or inherited from relatives. To take part in the quarantine tradition of starting new hobbies, I decided to refinish the pieces that I found within my budget to create personalized items that I could love. Refinishing is always a great way to give new life to old things instead of creating more waste. What better place to start than the place I'd spend the most time during my college career?