Do you have a piece of furniture that needs to be freshened up? Try this easy and inexpensive chalk paint recipe. There’s no need to sand before you paint. This paint gives texture to your piece, and it goes a long way!

I color matched a gallon of paint to Bug’s bedroom furniture. It’s off-white. I have only used a quart of it so far, and I have already painted her desk, a coffee table and side table with it. They really need to sell paint by the half-gallon.

I picked up this little desk from a yard sale last fall for $5.00. You read that right, five dollars. Someone had already painted it pink and put these obnoxiously big handles on it.

I wish I didn’t wait until I was done painting it to start looking online for handles. I learned that 4.25″ handles are not as standard as I thought they would be. If I had done my research first, I would have filled in the holes and bought any size handle I wanted. So, for a temporary fix, I spray painted the ones that came with it off white and put those back on.

This project needed to get wrapped up because school was going to start soon, and due to the pandemic, the kids have to do distance learning. Also known as “no break for mom.”

Bug will need a quiet place in her room for online learning. This little desk will be perfect. 

I painted two coats of chalk paint and two coats of polyurethane. I sanded it after both coats of poly with 200 grit sandpaper. This is the perfect piece to shabby up, and I usually would do just that. But, then it wouldn’t match the rest of Bug’s furniture.