MacKenzie Childs Inspiration #5 & The Neighbor's Trash

If you follow my blog, you know I have a 'thing' for MacKenzie Childs...you should visit their website if you haven't. I saw this lamp and thought for the most part it was cute. It had my Courtly Check on it which will sway me towards loving it if I see that. So I made my own version, as I always do knowing that the above MC lamp is only my inspiration. If you click on the picture it will show it bigger and then if you click on the picture again, it will get really large so you can see the detail. Then just back out of that and you will be back to the story.

Here it is on my FREE SPINET DESK all tied with a Christmas bow!

So you want to know about my FREE DESK? While we were on vacation, our new neighbors moved in. When we arrived home, their garage door was up and I saw an antique desk. I knew that I would like them if they enjoyed antiques like it did. The next day, I go out to mow the lawn before it gets hot (it was August) and I find that it's trash day and the neighbors had put this desk in the TRASH! So I walk over, knock on their door and ask if I can have their trash. The neighbor even helps me carry it home.  The front left leg was broken off but it was there and looked good. She told me that the desk had sat in her parents basement with the broken leg for over 42 years!  My hubby drilled a hole down the leg and up the desk part where the leg should be. He glued in a dowel and in 15 minutes the leg was repaired! It's called a spinet desk because the top closes like a spinet piano. When open, the writing area pulls forward for more work room and there are all kinds of cubbies and drawers. Now the finish was PERFECT, solid walnut with burled walnut drawer along the front. All I had to do was oil it! Can you believe it? Terry

In its closed position.

I think a drawer is missing right behind the candle stick.

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