Humble Beginnings Furniture Rehab

I've built a few tables. I've stained a few pieces of furniture. But I have never used a piece of furniture as a canvas for artistic expression, until now. Not a really impressive canvas is it? My husband found this desk back in August at a local Goodwill. We had been searching for something our college daughter could use for studying and after she took a look at it we decided to get it for her. It was sturdy enough to do the job, but it was an ugly shade of brown. I stared at it for three days, then ignored it for two.  I was scrolling through Pinterest when this showed up...    and the link took me Here . Inspiration struck me like a rock. My daughter loves horses, but we live in the suburbs, so she must live vicariously through others for her horse fix. But I could use that love of horses to reimagine that desk. I started by removing the drawer pulls and cleaning the whole piece with a degreaser. Once it was clean inside and out I began assessing it for any damages. Fo...

 I was bored. No, that's not exactly accurate. I was tired of standing around Lowe's as my husband picked out the best 2x4's they had for one of our remodel projects four years ago. I let my mind wander and I began thinking about this blog I had read a couple of days before the trip to Lowe's. I can't remember the blogger's name but she was writing about how she wanted to recreate a Restoration Hardware table she had seen in their catalog.  It was a welded metal base with a live edge walnut top. It costs about $3000 if I remember correctly. The blogger was using an oak board and gas piping in her recreation. It was around $100 I think. We were in the middle of a remodel and I couldn't afford either of those options. But as I stood in the lumber aisle letting my mind wander I came to realize that the 2x2's on the shelf in front of me would look just like the welded base if they were black. So for $15 worth of 2x2's and a 2x10 pine board I made my vers...