Do you love the rustic farmhouse look? We're sharing our top 3 tips for creating rustic furniture so you can get your own farmhouse style without breaking the bank!
I think you'll probably agree. Joanna Gaines has made rustic furniture and farmhouse home decor look BOTH comfy and elegant. Man can she stage the patooties out of a house! Sometimes, it's not easy to replicate a trend, but over the last few years I've seen thousands of people successfully DIY-ing their homes to incorporate that farmhouse style. Shiplap walls, Boxwood wreaths, Barn doors, Reclaimed wood signs ...the list of DIY rustic touches goes on and on. If you're still a big fan of the rustic farmhouse look, I'm going to show you some inexpensive DIY furniture options that blends both rustic charm with farmhouse style. These inexpensive tips and tricks can help you turn regular old furniture into rustic farmhouse furniture. Expensive furniture stores, eat your heart out!
Are you interested in learning how to refinish or paint furniture but you aren't sure how to start? Get some of the BEST furniture refinishing advice from 17 expert furniture paint bloggers!
I've invited some of the best furniture refinishers and asked them to give YOU their best advice and tips on refinishing furniture. If you are new to painting or refinishing furniture or if you've been eyeing an outdated piece of furniture and have grand plans to refinish it don't you dare put it off any longer! This is the post for YOU!
Can you believe the month of January is already half way over? To celebrate the upcoming month of February, we've pulled together a collection of thirty of some of prettiest Painted Furniture DIY Projects from some of the most talented DIY-ers in a variety of pink, coral and white paint colors. There are SO MANY FABULOUSDIY Painted Furniture Makeovers to drool over!...
In my obsession to find my next paint color for an upcoming furniture project, I thought I would do a little homework and gather some pretty Fall Inspired Furniture Makeovers to inspire some thrifty DIY. We scoured the best and brightest refinished pieces in Autumn earthy inspired colors for this round up.
Modern hairpin leg furniture can be expensive. Learn how to create your own DIY hairpin furniture and get an industrial or modern look! Up-cyle your own furniture, add hairpin legs and create something unique for your space!
Modern and industrial furniture has been trending in homes for decades. Furniture with simple and minimal lines create a sense of calmness to a space and can also add an eclectic element to a home.
Because modern and industrial furniture is in high demand, it can not only be hard to come by but it can also be cha-ching expensive to purchase! Today, we're going to show you an easy way to create your own modern hairpin leg furniture!
This post is sponsored by The Old Fahioned Milk Paint Co. However, the opinions and thoughts expressed within this post are 100% my own.
It's time to introduce a new theme for our Fab Furniture Flippin' Contest™! We can't wait to see what our 40+ furniture flipping contestants will come up with! I'm a sucker for a great farmhouse piece and who better to pair farmhouse furniture with then The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co. This amazing paint gives furniture a wonderful authentic old look without a lot of effort. It's easy to mix and apply. It dries quickly and it's environmentally safe. If you missed it, you can read about our Marissa Dresser Makeover refinished in OFMP in Pitch Black.
A brand new contest starts today!
If you're interested in joining the #fabflippincontest in the future keep reading!
You are bound to be inspired with these 25 AMAZING Patriotic Furniture Makeovers! These furniture projects painted in red, white and blue furniture paint are sure to get you excited for your Memorial Day weekend or Fourth of July celebrations!
The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays. I love theREASON behind this holiday! It's the chance to celebrate our beautiful country together with friends and family, BBQ and eat corn on the cob and the ultimate highlight of the day... sitting next to my family to watch some amazing fireworks go off! In celebration of this remarkable holiday, I have 25 INCREDIBLE DIY Patriotic Furniture Makeovers to share with you!
Saltwash™ creates a unique paint finish for furniture. This Saltwash paint additive can be combined with any kind of paint to create a beautiful distressed and worn paint finish.
If you're curious how Saltwash™ works you are in for a treat! We're sharing step-by-step instructions on how to use Saltwash™ along with our favorite salt wash paint tips and tricks!
We also have a helpful Saltwash™ video demonstration AND we're sharing our very favorite Saltwash™ projects to give you all kinds of ideas!
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SALTWASH™ PAINT ADDITIVE!
Summer is here and if you're like me you'll agree that there's nothing better then spending some time at a pool, lake or beach to relax and unwind, read a book or enjoy making memories with friends and family.
In this post we are talking about how easy it is to create DIY coastal weathered furniture and home decor using Saltwash™.
Someday, I would love to have a lake house or beach front property. It's on my bucket list! ;) If you're looking to create DIY coastal home decor to go with yours, we can help!
Metallic Cream is one of my favorite products that Country Chic Paint offers. So, we went on a hunt to find the best detailed piece we could find to rescue and re-love.
This post was sponsored by Country Chic Paint and may contain affiliate links. However, I love their Metallic Cream so much that I'd scream it to the roof tops no matter what! View our disclosure policy here.
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I still can't believe that it's April! I love Arizona in the Spring. (Okay, let's be real. I love Arizona, period.) But, especially right now! Currently, we are enjoying the most amazing smelling orange blossoms and fresh limes, lemons, oranges and grapefruits are drooping heavy on the trees. It's a great time to come visit! Fresh orange juice anyone? Okay, how about some freshly squeezed ice cold limeade/lemonade? Twist my arm, I say! ;)
I received products from Country Chic Paint to complete this furniture makeover, however the opinions and thoughts expressed here are 100% my own.
Hi Friends! I'm over at Country Chic Paint today to share a quick and easy furniture makeover with some custom paint touches. We turned this lovely serpentine chest into a gorgeous neutral side table and we didn't even take the hardware off. Lazy! Yes, we are!
Hop on over to get the skinny on this custom shade and to see this refinished piece in all it's glory...
**This post was sponsored by Minted. However, the opinions and thoughts expressed within this post are 100% my own.
Good morning! When I think about the month of November, I usually associate it with being thankful. (Although gratitude should be expressed all year long), I wanted to take an extra minute to say how THANKFUL I am that I get to be apart of The Fab Furniture Flippin' Contest. It has been so FUN to meet new TALENTED friends and to see all of your amazing furniture makeovers each and every month!
The #fabflippincontest for November is going to be a GOOD one! Minted is our sponsor. Have you been introduced? If not, you're in for a real treat! Minted is a special company- a place that offers unique designs from a community of independent artists. Their digital art can be printed onto canvas, fabric, prints, made into pillows, curtains and more! You can even create prints from your own little artist's work. :) It's a wonderful company that offers unique art, stationary and home decor that you won't find anywhere else! So, I am also THANKFUL for Minted. :)
A $300 Gift Certificate towards Minted's Art and Home Collections
I have a quick furniture flip of my own to share. Introducing bright colors and bold patterns is a great way to freshen up a space without a lot of effort. Reupholstering a piece of furniture can be for both the novice and the beginner! What can you do with a little paint, foam, Minted fabric and a staple gun? Read on!
I started with this cute little Kids Bench. It had a dark cherry finish, some peeling veneer, great storage capacity and one hard seat! The original finish wasn't our style and the comfort factor was a zero!
Who wants to read on a hard bench? Not I. :) The old veneer was removed, new veneer was added and the bench was painted it in a warm white color. Next, we addressed that lack of comfort. ;) We cut down a 1/4 inch board to the size of the bench, added some foam and used a staple gun to adhere this lovely Hexipattern Fabric in Orange to it.
Put it altogether and we've got a cute, functional and comfy place for the kids to plunk down with their favorite book.
Our November 2015, "Take A Seat" Fab Furniture Flippin' Contest begins now and we can't wait to see the submissions pour in... Good luck!
** I received Country Chic paint to complete this furniture makeover, however the opinions and thoughts expressed here are 100% my own.
A Seventies Intervention
Oh good golly would you look at this?! You may have passed up a bedroom set just like this at a garage sale. What, why!? You don't think it's pretty? ;) Okay, you're right. It's hideous but ah, come on... it has the bones to be love-e-lee. We're going to transform this bedroom set into something spectacular for just $25. Yep, you read that right. Twenty-five, one dollar bills. With just a little paint, this bedroom makeover is going from drab to fab!
Take a gander at the hardware. They are exquisite, but they get swallowed up in the existing wood finish. Care for a close up? Friends, they just don't make hardware like they used to!
They also don't make wood like they used to. ;) I'd rather fix up an older all wood set any day then shell out $$ for a new set that may or may not contain particle board.
We unscrewed all of the hardware, grabbed a paint brush and some Country Chic Paint in Vanilla Frosting and went to work. After two and half layers of paint, we gave it light distressing and put it back together.
And Voilà! In no time at all, a new bedroom set was born.
Isn't it amazing what a little paint can do! Carrie || Thirty Eighth Street
An easy tutorial on how to up-cycle a hutch to create two separate pieces of furniture with Pure & Original Classico Paint.
Sometimes, it is love at first site. Sometimes, it takes some warming up to. Sometimes, you can give a piece a facelift with just a little bit of paint. Sometimes, you make alterations first. This one was Love. At. First. Site.
These gorgeous arched doors were staring at me and I knew I had to have it. I didn't necessarily like it "as is", but I saw the potential and the potential called for some alterations. The vision? I would separate the two piece china hutch and create two distinct pieces and functions out of them.
While Pure & Original provided the products used to complete this labor of love, we supplied the elbow grease, rescued furniture, design concept, and opinions! All of which reflect our own point of view, regardless of affiliation.. This post may contain affiliate links. You can view our full disclosure here.
When I'm selecting a hutch to dissect, I like to look for ones with straight lines at the top as opposed to an arched top. When you're creating two separate pieces out of a hutch, a hutch with a straight line at the top gives the new piece a more natural look rather then looking like a hutch top that you've tried to turn into a cabinet.
Two reasons most straight lined hutches are open on top. First, if its a lighted cabinet it needs space for the cords. If there aren't any built in lights, it simply just saves the furniture company money and time when let's face it, nobody can see up there anyway. ;)
Since the top of our hutch was being turned into a stand alone cabinet and the new height would allow someone to see the top of it, we needed to create a false top. We selected a pine board from our local big box hardware store and had them cut it to size.
We didn't want to worry about whether or not the existing hutch top was square so we opted to give our measurements an extra 1/4" inch overage from our hutch dimensions. By doing so, we created the illusion of another layer of molding.
We used some wood glue and a nail gun to secure the board to the top. Then, we gave it a quick stain so that pine closely matched the existing stain. This cabinet was going to be distressed so giving the cabinet a universal base color before painting it would help those distressed areas look more natural.
What we did to the top we also executed to the bottom. We added another stained pine board to the bottom of the hutch so that we had a thicker surface area to work with when we added our feet. We selected inexpensive bun style legs and gave them the same stain treatment before securing them to the bottom of the hutch the hutch.
When we finished, our new cabinet looked like this...
Two pieces for the price of one! This blog post covers our furniture makeover for the top portion of the hutch. If you missed what we did to the bottom section, you can catch that here. If you enjoyed this post, you'll want to see some more examples of up-cycled furniture using Pure & Original Paint!
Painting furniture in emerald green is not for everyone. But, this bold color is a head turner! Need some Green Painted DIY furniture inspiration? You've come to the right place! Take a peak at this lovely Emerald Green Painted Desk Makeover and see if green is your thing.
Painting furniture is therapeutic for me. And for some reason, this next makeover was a real treat to work on. From the time I opened my can of General Finishes Milk Paint in Emerald Green to the very last picture taken, I think I had a perm-a-grin!
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That doesn't always happen with a furniture makeover story. But, it happened here and it all started by finding this old antique desk from the 1890's. Her spindle legs, her wooden wheels, the curves and even the hardware were in such great shape for her age. The original finish was chipping everywhere but beyond that, she was beautiful...
I started with the wheels. They received a good cleaning and some painters tape. Then, I sprayed them with some gold spray paint.
The hardware received the same spa treatment. And while they were drying I could turn my attention to the chipping finish and the new upholstery on the chair.
Both the chair and the desk received a good sanding. The chippy finish was a cinch to take off.... one of the perks of finding a piece so old. ;) And then, the magic started. If you're looking for a really nice Emerald Green hue, General Finishes has it. I'm smitten.
Here's why... Meet The Cynthia Dresser all dolled up.
Thank you, HGTV for featuring this desk makeover! Is green your thing? ;)
