Nowadays buying old and used furniture pieces is the cheapest way to furnish your home. Of course you should have some furniture renovating skills if you want them look great. Here is a beautiful old desk bought for $10. During the renovation it was sanded, painted in black, painted in white and antiqued using a...
Garage sales is the great source of cheap but very cool furniture if you know what to do with it. Terri Williams is a woman has proved that once again. She bought 2 chairs on a garage sale for $5 and using red paint, patterned fabric and new stuffing turned them into colorful, contemporary chairs....
Here is an awesome makeover that shows how cool looking you can make a plain wood IKEA chair. Diana Durkes cut capital S from a scavenged piece of 1/2″ thick wood using a jigsaw. After that she smooth its edges using 150 grit sandpaper. Next, she painted the letter and the chair using gold and...
Here is a coffee table that Amy from MommaHen has bought at the Flea Market for $15 and made looks beautiful again. Its condition was awful but after some sanding, staining, and painting it become a great decoration for any living room again. If you want to know more about the renovation, visit Amy’s blog...
If you have an ugly tabletop lamp you can try to make it better. That’s isn’t very hard with all these tutorials that show how to make cool lampshades. On pictures you can see an ugly $8 lamp turned into a very cute and chic item of decor. Its base is covered with gloss spray...
If you have some old chairs with leather upholstery or any other leather furniture lying around you can renovate it. Yes, leather can be painted! Here is how you can do that. First of all, clean all surfaces you’re going to paint. Tape off leather all the leather and paint frames and other surfaces. After...
IKEA dressers are great because they are cheap but looks good. Malm dresser is easy to assemble and holds a lot of stuff. Here is an awesome upgrade of such chair that Josue has done to show people from Design*Sponge blog. She spent $25 on this total transformation of the dresser. It took her 3...
This extreme makeover of a linen closet is done by Irina from All Of Irina. The closet is more than 50 years old and was stained a brown color. During the makeover it was painted in a gray-black color mix. Besides a wallpaper that looks like an English newspaper was applied. An insert with a...
In case you have an old laminate desk that you wish looked better you can fresh it up like Sarah from A Beach Cottage did. She took her old IKEA desk and make its top looks even better than it looked when the desk was new. The top is covered with polka dot oilcloth in...
If you still don’t know you can renovate virtually any of your furniture and decor items simply using paint. You can even buy some ugly product like this chandelier on some clearance and make it looks great. The project will be low budget but result might be really great. This chandelier is simply painted in...