One Room Challenge Week 2–The Console Makeover

If you missed my first post on the One Room Challenge, it is HERE.

This week went fast, I think this series is going to be a whirlwind! Essentially, I am attempting a complete room makeover in 6 weeks along with all the other participants in the “challenge”– this is excellent motivation! Here is installment number 2 in my endeavor to create and office/workspace in the sitting room in our master bedroom by early November.

This is the inspiration board I created for my office makeover. I chose this campaign dresser {on the bottom right} to represent this console that I have been hard at work on for my new office space.

I purchased this campaign-style console at a local estate sale a few weeks ago. I have been looking for a large storage piece for my office, something to hold paper, files, office supplies and the like. In my last office {See it HERE} I had the large Billy bookcases but those are being used for another project so I needed some new storage. While I like the look of the open shelves, I thought it would be a nice change to have something where I can hide everything inside, have some drawers, and still have a flat surface on the top. When I spied this Drexel console for sale with its mid-century looking hardware, I snatched it up!

After spraying it with a white gloss paint–something that was a breeze with my HomeRight FinishMax Pro–and refreshing the hardware with some Rust-Oleum Metallic Gold Spray Paint
and Rub ‘n Buff on the corner pieces, it now has a new life.

I will be back to share all about the inside storage and the desktop accessories but for now, I am enjoying it in its new finished splendor. I love the gold, and I really love the white gloss finish. It’s hard to roll gloss paint on and not get brush strokes, so the sprayer was the key to this coming out with a smooth surface. I still may add a coat of polyurethane, though I am afraid of yellowing the white, so we’ll see about that.

This piece has not yet been moved into its final spot in my office space. I photographed it in my family room as I probably will have the office painted in the next few weeks so there isn’t any sense in moving it yet. I purchased several large pieces at the Estate Sale {you have seen them on Facebook or Instagram if you follow us there} so we’re going to have to bite the bullet and pay some strong movers to get the new furniture up the stairs. This was definitely something I didn’t consider when purchasing three large new-to-me pieces of furniture, but with a new house to fill, I still saved money over buying new and I love the retro charm of finding estate pieces.

I decorated it with some of the accessories I already have for the new office space. I just can’t get away from the gold trend, and I figured why fight it when it goes so nicely with the existing hardware on the console?

I will touch more on the accessories in my next One Room Challenge update. Yes, I spray painted my stapler gold {Heather and I have been thinking alike!}, while I did in fact purchase a gold one when they first came out in Target, I had one of those “what am I thinking?” moments and returned it–$15 for a gold stapler? A little spray paint did essentially the same thing for pennies and I won’t feel guilty retiring it when the gold trend is history 🙂

As far as the rest of the room makeover, the sticking point is evidently going to be the drapes. It would seem that the drapes I picked in my inspiration photo are not to be found anywhere, despite my best efforts. I have selected a “plan B” and am waiting for those to come back in stock, hopefully I will hear more next week. Since the windows in this space are the windows for my bedroom, I need something that will darken the room and with six large windows (three across each wall) that can get to be an expensive proposition. I am crossing my fingers that the new ones come back in stock. We currently have paper blinds on the windows–cringe–so this is a much needed and long overdue improvement.

I still have to work on the shelving for the room but I have a plan in mind for those so with this major piece of furniture done I feel like I am on track thus far. Be sure to see what everyone else is up to with their challenge rooms over at Calling it Home.