Toot Toot Tuesday-Desk Makeover

How was everyone's Memorial Day? We got some house and yard work done and then went and saw Shrek 4. Not my favorite of the series, but it was good, and the kids were entertained. Of course when you are pregnant and tired, I just don't think movies are as enjoyable as they usually are. Anyone else seen it?

Today I just wanted to share my desk makeover, and maybe inspire you if you have a similar piece of furniture that just needs a little pick-me-up.
This is the before, it is in my living room/dining room area since I don't have an office in this house and so everyone sees it when they come in our house. It's fine, but there is something about it that just drives me batty. Can you guess what it is?If you guessed it was those nasty frosted glass windows, you'd be right, it hides stuff a little, but not well enough, and lets face it, they are just ugly.Enter some of my trusty old scrapbook paper. This is a Rusty Pickle paper called Farmhouse Black, I'm not sure if you can find any of it anymore or not since they are going out of business and this print is a couple years old, but I'm sure you could find something similar out there. Anyway, I just measured the windows, cut the paper and lined up the pattern and then just used plain old scotch tape to attach it. Since these are no where near little hands, I wasn't worried about them being ripped off.
Here it is all taped on the glass with double stick tape. It's not permanent that way if frosted glass ever comes back in style, I'm all set! :) Or maybe I will want to change the paper out someday to match an office I have further on down the road. For right now though I love it!

Here are both sides done, it looks much better right? Well I still felt like since it was a focal point in my house, and I can't really change that, it needed some more sprucing up. I have all that glorious space on top to do something with. I went through some of my frames and took out any glass or pictures that may have been occupying the ones I chose and arranged them along the top. I painted a couple of them in either black or red to match my room and then added some matching things I had around the house. I went into the yard and cut some branches, and haven't decided if I need to paint them or not yet. Thoughts?I finally hung my family rules board I made forever ago, and am happy to have it out of my youngest ones reach. He took a Sharpie to it the other day and added his own special touches.
And here it is all done and ready to be shown off! It's like a whole other mantel on this side of the room, and it makes it more cohesive with everything else, rather than an unfortunate necessity that has to be put there. I would love to know what you think of it!

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