Guest DIY post submitted by Christi @ Beachbrights
This is where it all started…the birth of my desk. My darling husband made this for me (inspired by one from BH&G magazine May 2005) and I painted it a distressed black. I needed a desk to craft, sew and be creative on…I love this desk.
This is a picture of our Slidell, LA home office. I was not taking these pictures for anyone but myself (never heard of blogging back then), so please excuse the quality. Also, you will notice that there is not a rug in this room. Thanks Hurricane Katrina. Circa 2005
Our next home was Tullahoma, TN. I did not have a picture of the empty room but I did find this one before the cabinets had been painted. I always get these cabinets from Home Depot (in stock) and paint them (distressed black). I removed the doors of the top cabinets to create an “open look”. Installing those top cabinets created the height I needed in the room. The countertop is formica, custom ordered from Home Depot (or maybe Lowes 
. Those black & white bins at the top of the cabinets are just white bins with black electrical tape made into a plaid pattern. Notice I have a rug and the desk still looks fantastic! Circa 2006
Now, for present day. Yes we move. A lot. Because we move so often, I have ended up with a “hodge podge” of furniture. What worked well in one house, does not necessarily work well in the other. So, for my current home, I had to make these humongo bookshelves work in the home office. Bye-Bye black distressed look. Hello brown. So, I sewed this table cover/skirt and had a piece of glass cut to fit on the top of the table. Viola. It works or at least make me feel good and TELL me it works Circa 2007
So this is the story of the little desk that kept reinventing itself. Who says I don’t recycle.
