What's Old is New

I have a desk is in my bedroom! It's very exciting; I don't think I've owned a proper desk since college. Thanks to our helpful and resourceful manager, I now have an almost-antique desk to call my own. Pardon the glare from my still-to-be-properly-covered windows. 

The desk was made by the Charles R. Sligh Company of Holland, Minnesota, and it was abandoned and stored in our basement for years. In return for my taking it so he can organize the storage room, our manager showed me how to oil it and get it looking nice again. I don't have an age on the desk, but chances are it's from the 30s-40s so it'll be an antique in a few decades.

The desk has a leather inlaid top, brass pulls, and really lovely drawer fronts. The drawers need some fabric laid down on the insides and some waxing around the edges, but otherwise it's in beautiful condition! And yes, that's fresh paint on the walls and a corner of our finished floors. So you see, we'll be civilized enough in short order.