Furniture Makeover From Trash To Posh

With the economic downturn, it has made people more resourceful on what they spend their cash on these days. This means some are more careful with their budget and are spending less money on expensive furniture and more opt to DIY-ing projects either using what they already own, or what they’ve found on the curb or thrift shops. As someone who loves to give tired furniture a facelift, I was more than happy to help my friend’s daughter to jazz up this old dresser for her room.

Case in point is this dresser piece that a friend was about to put out on the curb {cause she was fed up with it}, but I convinced her that I could turn it into something desirable with a little bit of “elbow grease.” I was so thrilled when she agreed for me to do the project!  I got overly excited taking out the drawers and the pulls that I forgot to take the full before shots since the sun was quickly setting on us. That’s why I don’t have the full before picture, but with the ones I took… I’m sure you will still see what it looked like before. It was nowhere near posh.

We ran to the store to get sandpaper blocks and spray paint. Within an hour plus time, I had this dresser transformed into a posh piece for a total of $20. I’ve been refurbishing furniture for years now and I never look at curbside furniture as a lost cause or trash, because I always see potential in everything and anything.  Nothing is EVER as it appears;) Someone’s trash can be your treasure if you look at things with fresh eyes.

So if you have a piece of furniture that “serves you well,” and don’t have the cash to buy that fancy new piece of furniture you’d like to replace it with, don’t be afraid to roll up your sleeves and give what you have a little cosmetic love that it deserves with a little paint and new knobs or handles.

Things You’ll Need:

I apologize that I don’t have the pictures of these items. I will next time.

* Sandpaper – I used a small-sized block with fine grit. (Sold at any home improvement stores)

* An old white T-shirt for wiping the furniture after sanding it.

* White Spray paint in semi-gloss.

* I already had the blue/teal paint – which I think woke-up the piece. You can use whatever leftover paint you may have as an accent color.

Note: When you sand the furniture, make sure to go with the grain of wood {in this case it wasn’t real wood, so I used a fine-grit sandpaper block…giving it a light sanding to create a porous surface for the paint to penetrate well.} This will give you a smooth finish once you spray paint the furniture.

I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS, TOO:

…Curbside coffee table transformed into a fresh new look

To be continued…

Thoughts anyone? Please share your comments;)