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A few months ago I saw an add on craigslist (I visit that website A LOT) It was for an auction... :D Little backstory... I live near Vancouver, BC Canada & we have an iconic hotel downtown Vancouver called, fittingly, "The Hotel Vancouver" It's ornate & gorgeous! Well, apparently someone decided that the furnishings that were gracing the iconic hotel were no longer 'up to date' & must be disposed of! *GASP*! There was to be an auction of the vintage furniture & dang it, I was gonna be at it!! Well, sadly schedules conflicted, which happens to me a lot & so I missed the auction BUT, I was able to get my hands on a few lonely cast offs that were left over!! SCORE! I was able to aquire THREE beautiful Queen Anne style solid mahogany desks, a Stunning mirror & a beautiful mahogany pedestal table! (which I will blog about soon!) Here's the before shot of one of the desks.. I named her Sylvia ❤  They had actually butchered this beautiful creature to put some sort of internet cable box into the front of it (hotel room style) so I had to fix that with a new veneer on the front of the faux drawer.  Here is the after! I decided to lighten her up so first I painted her with a white undercoat then I painted her a totally custom shade of my home made chalky paint in a robin's egg/light turquoise/pale blue, lol.. don't ask me what color it is, lol! I custom mix my colors for every different item I paint :) none are the same ! It must be the crazy artist in me,lol I lightly distressed her details to bring some of the white to the surface & a bit of that pretty mahogany, then I hand painted her top surface with a custom design of spring blossoms & branches in a watercolor technique!  She only had one drawer pull so I grabbed another off of one of the other desks I got & sprayed them a pretty off white tone & distressed them so you could see the brass peeking through.  She was then sealed with 2 coats of polyurethane spray to seal in her pretty details. Isn't she darling!?   This is the faux drawer front that I had to repair with a veneer. Can you tell it has a whole new veneer on it? :) Me neither ;)  These side drawers are faux but the middle drawer is very functional & could also fit a slim keyboard!  Her curvy legs are soooo sexy!  She even has a gorgeous glass top to protect her hand painting! Sylvia is ready for her new home! I can see her in a lady's work space, gleaming in the light, giving rest to someone busy at her computer. She would take a peek down at the flowers & take deep breath & sigh ❤ Beauty is all around her :)  I found a perfect accent chair to go with this beautiful desk & painted her to match :) I used a pretty scrap of fabric I had left over to upholster the seat that looks nice, I think!  This desk is currently for sale so if you live locally, near Vancouver , BC, Canada, shoot me a message via my contact form & you can come see her in person! Thanks so much for checking out my blog post! You can subscribe to my blog to get all sorts of fun ideas, inspiration, tutorials & eye candy! You just never know what I'm up to! Don't forget to follow me on Instagram here... Barefootbutterflystudio my Facebook Vintage page here ... Barefootbutterfly House of Vintage & my photography studio facebook page here... Barefootbutterfly Studio 
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