Furniture Flipper Gives Thrifted Writing Desk and Chair a Butter Yellow Makeover
Butter yellow has been having a moment over the past couple of years, with the sunny pastel hue showing up everywhere from fashion to interior design. And even though I've seen plenty of butter yellow walls, I haven't seen much butter yellow furniture.
That is, until this week, when I came across a furniture flip video from social media creator Logan Schroering (aka @loganlists). In the video, he turned a thrifted writing desk and chair into a butter yellow masterpiece. Read on to see how he did it!
Furniture Flipper @LoganLists Set Out to Restore an Old Writing Desk and Chair
"I got 6 bucks, we're at the thrift store. Let's see if we can turn it into 300," Schroering Schroering said in a recent TikTok video. He wound up scoring an old white wooden chair for 99 cents and a small green writing desk for $5, comnig to a total of $6.
Once he brought the pieces home, he got to work. First, he created a new drawer front to cover the desk's pull-out typewriter tray and make it more functional. Then, he flipped the desk upside-down and tightened the screws to fix the desk's "wobbles" and make it more stable.
Then, Schroering sanded down the top of the desk with an electric sander. He also removed the wooden seat from the white-painted frame, and sanded down the seat.
Next, he primed the painted parts of the chair and table with a white primer before heading to the store to choose a new paint color.
@loganlists Did we turn $6 into $300? #furnitureflip#thrifting#transformation#flipping#satisfying
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Logan Schroering Painted His Restored Desk and Chair Butter Yellow
Schroering spotted a "trending now" section amongst the paint samples, which included a few shades of light yellow - and he wound up trying out a jubilant butter yellow shade. At home, he used a paint sprayer to apply two coats of the yellow paint to the frames of the chair and desk.
Once the paint dried, he applied a brown paint wash (made of brown paint and water) to the desk's tabletop and seat, in an effort to make the woods match each other a bit more closely - and it worked.
Finally, he reattached the seat to the chair's frame, sprayed a clear coat over both pieces and added a simple knob to the drawer. Then, he revealed the "after" by staging the furniture set outside in the sun - and it turned out incredible!
"Man, I absolutely love how this turned out," he concluded in his video. "That transformation was one for the books."
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This story was originally published May 30, 2026 at 8:00 AM.