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D and His New Desk

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With D on his way to 3rd grade we decided he needed a desk in his bedroom. Before summer break we asked him if he wanted to go out and buy one or he wanted to find an old desk in need of some love and fix it up. To our surprise he said he wanted to find a desk and give it some love.. :) I really thought he'd want to go with the easy way but his decision made my heart so happy. This was going to be a summer project.. I made sure he understood just how time consuming the project would be.. His current desk was the little plastic Ikea desk. So I spent the next few weeks finding the perfect desk.. and we found one. $15 and it came with a matching chair  Disclaimer - This is in no way a how to guide.. it's just the way we did it.  We started by taking out drawers, the drawer pulls removed.. the chair seat taken off. And then we cleaned everything with Lysol wipes..  Next we sanded everything.. I had bought an electric sander when we were working o