THIS...

Is what I've been working on for what seems like years! I have obviously done a lot so far. I've been through many types of stripping chemicals and sanding machines (wow, I probably could have bought a desk by now). Stripping a desk is hard and frustrating. As you can see I have taken out all of the tools including a crow bar...don't ask! My hands are sore, my back is sore, my knees are sore...don't ask!

My dad gave me this desk a couple of years ago and it's been in my basement, what used to be the makeshift office since. It used to belong to my younger sisters but now it's mine. I also want to murder them for the butterfly stickers they attached to the most random places - under and on drawers, the back of the desk, back side of legs...? - and to the little moron that decided to bang the back of her eraser-less pencil into the top of the desk because now we have blue circular dents that are almost impossible to even sand out. But I'm not bitter...

I can not WAIT until I finish this thing because it's gonna look awesome in my guest room/office. I haven' decided if I want to paint it so it looks old and distressed OR if I want to make it funky and paint the legs a different color and put different colors and designs on different portions of the desk. What do you all think? I'm leaning towards funky because well, I myself am a bit funky. We'll see. Anyway, I feel like I got a significant amount done last night. BUT looking at it...maybe not. UUGGH