I've been looking for a mid century desk to host the family pc for a while now. I kind of knew what I wanted, but just wasn't finding it. I finally found it in the basement of an estate sale I went to last weekend. It was the second day of the sale, so it was half price. I paid $4. I can't believe no one snatched it up.
A little polishing and tightening of the legs is all it needed.
The knobs on the drawer were a little tarnished. The wire wheel on my grinder took care of that.
Before
After
Now we just needed a chair to go with it. At the same sale, they had 4 mid century chairs for sale. One was coming apart at the joints. That one was priced at $1. The others were priced at $9. Of course I picked up the $1 chair. I had all the materials I needed to repair it. Just add some time and effort.
All of the chairs had been recovered in some truly ugly fabric.
Disassembly started.
Once I took the seat off, it practically fell to pieces.
First I sanded the entire chair and cleaned up some old repairs on the joints (glue and brackets). I had to replace a couple of the dowels as well. I just cut some of my own from a piece of dowel I had.
I applied 2 coats of Minwax Fruitwood stain followed by 3 coats of Minwax semi-gloss polyurethane.
I strengthened the joints up by running a couple screws through the corner blocks.
Next I needed to recover the seat cushion. My wife happened to find a couple yards of vintage fabric at another sale for $2.
I'm not sure of the vintage, but it had the look I wanted. It's by Jay Yang who apparently is somewhat known. Anybody familiar with him?
My wife did the recovering and I think it turned out great. She also bought an extra piece of foam for added cushioning -- $5.
The finished product. Total cost for desk and chair, $12.
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