This pile of old frames costing under $50 and an old battered desk for $5, with some serious elbow grease and DIY know-how, become an Anthropologie-inspired desk area for a very lucky 7-year-old. Be sure to click through to see the after shot. We love how it turned out: just girlie enough with a fresh, new red and blue outlook.
Mandi from Vintage Revival is the miracle worker behind her daughter's new desk area. Pay her blog a visit to find out how she made the old desk look new and then old again. Also check out the video here (the second one down) to see her Anthropologie inspiration as well as learn about her methods on aging the mirrors and adding subtle fabric patterns in behind.
(Images: Vintage Revivals)
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LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!
Really like how you can see some of the wood grain through the red to keep the old character...lovely.
Yes please!
Those frames turned out beautifully - the black parts and the multiple colors are a cut above the spray-it-all-white treatment that I was expecting!
Love! Seems less suited for a seven-year-old and more suited for um... ME. =)
Second time I've seen a project of Mandi's featured here! FABULOUS! Her faux fireplace is what got me hooked on her blog.
A lamp shade through which you can see the bulb? Wouldn't that be hard on the eyes?
Love the frames, but I guarantee that little girl didn't get her choice of what went into the frames. Lovely princess-y tacky taste little girls have, bless them!
beautiful!
Beautiful, but more early Carrie Bradshaw than 7-year-old.
it's lovely but my 8 year old would never go for it