Comments on: Revamp Old Furniture Instead of Replacing

By: Dining Room Furniture

Dining Room Furniture — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:15:00 +0000

Revamping your old furniture can save you a lot of money and you have the chance to put your desired style on that old furniture.

By: Dava

Dava — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:54:01 +0000

I am so new to decoupage and need help badly. I love all the ideas and comments but what I have a question about is this….Can I use children’s crayon drawings or marker drawings when decoupaging? I didn’t know if the colors would run or bleed once the glue is applied. Can I spray something on them to keep this from happening? I am in charge of 2 class projects where we will be adding decoupage to a chair and a table that will be auctioned. We are wantinng to do it in the childrens art work. I can use advice as well as step by step instruction as well. Thank you

By: Dianna

Dianna — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:33:38 +0000

I love taking a discarded piece of furniture and giving it new life.

By: Nikki MacCallum

Nikki MacCallum — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:56:31 +0000

Thanks so much for the video – I have to re-upholster 4 chairs for a client next week!

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:19:06 +0000

Revamping old furniture is fun! Though, not having a place of my own, I don’t get the chance to do it very often. I do have a mosaiced nightstand in my bedroom– I did beach glass on the top of it. And I also have some dressers from my childhood that I spruced up a bit with some Celtic designs painted on the stained wood in silver. (I’d love to get some replacement hardware for them too– both because the antique gold drawer pulls don’t go with silver paint, and because one of them broke and fell off and got lost. But apparently the standard size drawer pulls don’t fit relics from the early 90s, and I haven’t found any to try at the thrift store yet…)

By: Wanda

Wanda — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:18:46 +0000

I LOVE the idea of revamping old furniture. My home is filled with old pieces that are now fun! With a touch of low-VOC paint and a little imagination, we can all bring unique pieces into our home and keep them out of the land fills:) Win-Win! Thanks for sharing!

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:23:09 +0000

Bethjc – I love the idea of revamping office furniture! I bet those new pieces gave your workplace lots of character!

tremundo – That kitchen island is fantastical!

lori – Thanks much! I can’t take credit for the dresser, just the table. The dresser is a previous project from Lenore. She did happen to pick my current color obsession, though!

MiCo – That’s wonderful to hear!!

By: MiCo

MiCo — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:14:12 +0000

So glad to have found your website. This post on re-vamping old furniture is just the inspiration I needed to keep from throwing out a perfectly good (but UGLY) kitchen table!

By: Summer

Summer — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:26:14 +0000

Natural wood isn’t bad, lori… it’s just you! and certainly it’s eco so that makes it good.

My favorite redone piece is a little curvy dresser with flowery handles that I found at a thrift store … it had crayon drawings on the side and a gross pseudo-cream-colored (yellowy) melamine top which I wanted to replace with real wood, but decided to keep because it fit the curvy bits on the rest of the piece. I sanded the heck out of it, primed it with a high-adhesive primer, and painted the whole piece white (except for the handles, which I removed because they were nicely distressed.) Came out great. Had to do some repair on one of the tracking thingies, which were wood… I glued it together and it works well for gentle use.

One day I’m going to mosaic something… not sure what yet.

By: lori

lori — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:51:43 +0000

you did a nice job on that little table. i also like what your doing to the dresser? I have such a hard time doing that, not the process but the color,which i really love the one you chose. I guess I am a natural wood sorta person. I am not sure if that is good or bad.