What’s on your desktop?

In this day and age, when you can carry your entire music library in your pocket, instantly talk to people on the other side of the world, work from home, order groceries online, get two-day shipping, watch live-streaming, I forgot where I was going with this.

But the future is now, and we are living in it, and it’s pretty great!

Still, sometimes you might just want to return to the good ol’ days, when people wrote things called “letters” and sent them by “mail.”  The best place to do that is at a “desk.”

Here’s a great little desk makeover by Better After reader Dolores. She jazzed up this shabby old desk just for me, because my high school colors were black and gold, and she knows I love stripes.

 

Ok, fine, she didn’t do it for me at all, but my eyeballs appreciate it anyway. I like how she painted the back half of the knobs gold too, otherwise they would have blended right in.

Shelly at 100 Things 2 Do had to dig deep to find the beauty hidden underneath a bad paint job or two or three on this sweet writing desk, but look what she uncovered:

 

So much better! That natural wood grain is so much lovelier than that murky brown paint could ever be. I have no problem with painting wood, but why would anyone ever paint solid wood brown? Why not use a stain? These are the mysteries that keep me up at night.

Anyway, aren’t desks great? Even in this electronic age, I don’t think they’ll go the way of the archaic entertainment center.  As long as we have bills to pay and homework to do, I think they’ll stick around. Plus, you can always use one to hold your laptop.