Furnishing your home on a budget ~ Furniture upcycle
Furnishing your home can break the bank in no time! Three years ago me moved from our 900 sq ft starter home (that we lived in for 9 years) to our 2,600 sq ft “fix-r-upper” home. Needless to say we were going to need to buy a few things to furnish our new larger home, since we sold our old home really easily using a service of sell my house AS IS for cash Atlanta GA. Just one problem, I hate buying furniture
First~ it cost way t0o much.
Second ~ they don’t make things like they use to, and new stuff seems to fall apart way to quick with 4 kids.
Third ~ IF it is brand new I feel like a I need to wrap the darn thing in yellow caution tape and keep my kids from it, terrified it might get a scratch.
Fourth ~ Buyers remorse, if I am going to spend that much money I want to make sure it is perfect…. WHAT if I do not like it?
So over the years I have bought some new pieces and some “new to me” pieces. What I have learned is I REALLY like to buy used furniture, change it up a bit and make it my own. If you watch craigslist and yards sales you can find some killer deals! Or even better think outside the box and repurpose pieces I already have in my home. The white dresser I have in the photo above was a hand me down from my sister in law. We have used it in my sons room for 11 years. He has now outgrown it and needed something bigger.
I did not need another dresser but I need need something to store linens and extra dishes in, in my kitchen. SO I decided to take this dresser, give it a new coat of paint and repurpose it as a hutch for my kitchen. I gave it a light sand, sprayed it with Walnut Brown paint, sanded the edges down to give it a vintage look. Simple as that, I had a new piece of furniture for my kitchen.
No it is not perfect, but that is what I love about it. It fits the space great, it has character, it is sturdy and it was FREE. All I had to do was pay for a can of paint! And if my kids bump it or scratch it… no harm done!
I am so completely in love with this piece of furniture!
I love this! It looks so much better painted dark. I just wondered if the spray paint is sticking good, since it said you just sanded it lightly. So, you didn’t completely strip the old finish. I have a couple of things that need to be redone, too. Do you have pictures of any other pieces you have refinished?
Yes the paint is staying good… it is NOT perfect but way better than it was