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Ugly Commode To Perfect Desktop

Revamping cheap JYSK commodde to lovely desktop

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/ugly-commode-to-perfect-desktop • Posted by Lesti M.

After redoing my room and placing it with lovely gray – cream furniture I didn't have enough space left for a regular writing-table so I decided to do it myself...

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Project Budget
Reasonably Priced

Time

6 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
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Description

After redoing my room and placing it with lovely gray – cream furniture I didn't have enough space left for a regular writing-table so I decided to do it myself...

Instructions

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    I bought a cheep JYSK (shop similar to IKEA) commode and started working on it :)

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    First I sanded it whit my trusted machine...

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    ... but not too deep because it is not real wood and if you go to deep you will end up with surface which is not really suitable for painting.

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    I took picture I liked (and which was easy) and remade it into black and white one.

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    Then I painted it gray (used a roller to get a little bit of tecture) and put on my little b/w graphic. First I tried to do it the simple way and use stencil technique but I suck at it, so I had to redo it all with a pencil, ruler and thin paintbrush (took me 12 hours!!!). * You can see, that it is nor really finished, because there are some details to perfect I can't get tabletop which is the right length, but I hoping to get it soon :)