Bummer desk

We've been looking for a desk for our front room (you know, the one. The one that's supposed to be a dining room, but it has carpet in it and we've got three messy boys, and no use for a dining room and kitchen table at this point, so it's turned into my craft room/computer room/catchall). Our computer desk in the basement broke, nevermind who broke it when they were moving it. NEVERMIND. And we've been planning on bringing the computer upstairs for the boys to use. So I've been keeping an eye out for the perfect desk for our front room and I finally found this amazing desk at GW for TWENTY BUCKS!

Isn't it great!? I had this vision of a smooth ebony stained top with white drawers and keeping the pulls the antique look that they are....nice vision, right? Can you see it? Gorg.

I started sanding the top. It took a lot of muscle power. It was painful. But then I started noticing that my sander was getting a little carried away. And it started sanding too much of the top off. Crap. I freaked. And fretted. I cleaned everything off and stained the top thinking that I wouldn't be able to notice the portions that we (we meaning the sander and me, because it's just as much the sanders fault as it is mine!) sanded too much. Well. I.Was.Wrong.

That's not good. Not good at all.

See those sections where it looks different. Yeah. I'm so bummed. I had my heart set on the top being stained and the rest of it looks sooooo good, except for those sections and I can't leave it like that. It's horrible.

So, it is sitting in the garage, completely and totally primed, all over. Even the top. I've been thinking about sanding again, but there's really no reason to try again, unless I want to sand the entire top down to match the spots where it went to the bare wood.  Someone make me feel better about it looking good white.

Arghhh....