School desks

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Education looks very different today then it did 100, 50 and even 10 years ago. The days of quiet classrooms, full of students in tidy rows, sitting at attention while the teacher lectured at the blackboard have been replaced with more collaborative styles involving a multitude of teaching methods. If you walk into a classroom today, you’ll likely see desks and tables in all sorts of arrangements. Children might be gathered into small groups, sitting at various stations around the classroom…

I've been a little slow to get the blog off the ground, but not to worry I have lots of great blog ideas in the pipeline! I know you were worried right?! With a new house, a toddler, and a new baby on the way, my life is chock full of content for this blog: house tours, furniture rehabs, garage organization, baby post, mommy post, and I'll be bringing back "What's Cookin' Wednesdays" for those of you who followed my blog while in Ireland. So if you're following along I hope you will enjoy…

With the current state of our kids' school year (cancelled), we decided it best to keep them on the learning track. To do so, we needed to build a desk for our 6 year old daughter. We had some plywood laying around so this is what we came up with.

One of my first project this year was to (finally) refinish a vintage school desk & chair set that I've had sitting in storage for over a year. I wanted to share my tips for how to refinish a vintage school desk in case you find one that's in bad condition.

I was looking for a project when I went into the Goodwill that day.I saw the old desk sitting there in back. I looked it over and left.It…

The Node school chair by Steelcase Education is mobile and flexible. It's designed for quick, easy transitions from one teaching mode to the next, unlike traditional school desks and chairs.

Our friends bought a vintage school desk and asked if I would restore it for them. I agreed, and in the process, I learned how to fix blotchy stain!

Good friends are moving into a new house and asked if I would give their daughter’s desk a makeover for her new room. This desk is an old school desk but I don’t know its history. It’s size makes me think that it originally was used in a junior or high school. Haley likes...