A desk out of a door!

   For a few years now I have really wanted to make a desk with an old door. Some friends of ours in Athens had done this and I just loved it! Unfortunately, in our last apartment we had no room for such a thing with all of the furniture we already had. When we moved our new place has a dining room that we didn't have before. In our current stage of life we don't have a nice big dining room table and no real need for one so I agreed to let the room be Hace's office/study room.  The only problem was he didn't have a desk and mine was too small and, well, mine. So I finally got to make a desk out of an old door and I love it!! We found the door at an antique shop here in town and then the owner gave us the contact info for a glass company he had worked with in the past to cut us a piece of glass to go on top of the door.
    Figuring out the desk top was pretty easy the difficult part came in with the legs.  We knew that eventually we would need some drawer space but weren't sure we would find anything initially that would provide drawers, be a good balance of "cute" and "functional" (guess who wanted which:), AND be in our price range. I have been eying some filing cabinets from pottery barn for awhile that fit all qualifications except that last one.. They were out of our price range by a long shot. We didn't want to create this desk and end up spending way more than if we had just bought a desk. Hace's mom, who is a great decorator, suggested I look at homedecorator.com and we found the perfect thing! The filing cabinets there were cute, functional and on sale for $69! We did have to assemble them but we did it pretty easily and neither of us are good at stuff like that. Now we just have to find a desk chair that meets the said qualifications...

Assembly!

Drawers, obviously

Finished product!