The Best Way To Find Free Furniture If I were a super hero, and had only one super power, it would be to make good free furniture appear and come home with me. Check out my post and you can become a Free Furniture Super Hero too! I am not a super hero, just an average suburban mom. BUT! I have managed to hone this super power and bend it to my will. If you check out my Dumpster Diving Series and THIS post on how to find Free Furniture, you can develop this Super Power yourself and always find free furniture. Four stops was all I had to make on this major haul. That's it, 4 stops! Stop #1 On my way home from the gym on a Saturday. I always take the residential roads ...
Trashy Tuesday A Garage Full of Free Furniture
Trashy Tuesday A Garage Full of Free Furniture It happened on a Saturday, when I had JUST cleaned out my garage and was just going about my day....Phone call from a friend who is moving! They needed all their junk out, and they needed it done that day. AND they happen to have bought a ranch that had a ton of Old Furniture and JUNK on it. When they first moved in, they did an initial junk purge and I ended up with a ton of stuff. In fact, look at how packed my van was! Just like nature abhors a vacuum, my garage abhors being empty! For REAL! If you have been around here for some time, you may have seen that my garage is like an accordion. I will clean it up, give everything ...
Trashy Tuesday Dumpster Dive Free Chair
Happy Trashy Tuesday! You won't believe what I found this past week! The coolest Dumpster Dive Free Upholstered Chair! If you are a regular here, you know how much I love FREE FURNITURE. And you know how hard it is for me to pass on some good Free Furniture. I have been exercising a bit of self control, because really, what good are all those potential Trash to Treasure pieces if I can't exactly give them a proper DIY Furniture Makeover? If I have too much Free Furniture floating around my garage. I usually do a Free Furniture Give away when it's been weeks since I could get my car in the garage. I recently did one of these purges. It's a great way for my whole neighborhood ...
How to Make a Bench From A Dumpster Console
How to Make a Bench From a Dumpster Console Welcome to Trashy Tuesday! You know I can't resist a good Dumpster Furniture Makeover. One of my favorite things to make from Broken Furniture is a Bench. Imagine if you will, you are out on a Saturday running errands and decide to take a usual detour behind one of the big box stores. There, as if by magic, is a big Console thing sticking out of the Dumpster, just waiting for you. I pulled the console out easy enough, but I wasn't too thrilled about the broken glass in the cabinet doors on this thing. Perhaps part of the reason it was in the dumpster??? I got this thing home and it went into my garage where I expected to live ...
Dresser wanting the Layered Paint Look
It may be hot outside where you are, but the best dressed dressers, and furniture are all asking for the Layered Look! Are you hearing what your furniture is saying? The cool kids are all doing this technique and I know you are cool ;) If you think your furniture isn't talking to you, then you are not listening closely enough. I put off painting projects all the time. I think I actually LIKE having a garage full of furniture and keeping my car outside when it is over 100, just so I can sweat bullets, ruin my hair and be generally miserable every time I get in my car. Not to mention all the furniture that yells at me and mumbles complaints every time I walk past all of them. I ...
How to Makeover Old French Provincial Dresser
How to Makeover Old French Provincial Dresser *This post contains affiliate links, all of the opinions are definitely 100% my own ;) You recognize this Dresser right? It was part of your bedroom set circa 1970's? I was not lucky enough to have this Bedroom set as a kid, (I had beautiful furniture that my mom bought and refinished-where I got my inspiration). But! I have been lucky enough to find TONS of it for sale or even better, for FREE over the past 14 years that I have been painting furniture. Here are a few of the pieces I have transformed over the years. Several of them were FREE finds! Dressers Dressed in Glaze Snooty French Girls Dumped Dresser Don't ...
How To Makeover a Vintage Stereo Cabinet
How to Makeover a Vintage Stereo Cabinet How many times have you seen one of these old Stereo Cabinets and just dismissed it as a worthless?I found this old Stereo Cabinet one day while out walking my dog. I really believe people put stuff out on their driveways with a free sign up because they know I will pick it up. You'll Also Love: How to Decoupage Fabric Over Painted Wood For reals. It sat in my garage for a few weeks before inspiration hit. I realized that instead of trying to restore the original turntable inside (trying to rewire something from the 1950's? WHAT was I THINKING?!!) I could remove the turntable, speakers, etc. and our current turntable fit into the metal shelving ...
How to Decoupage Fabric Over Painted Wood
How to Decoupage Fabric over Painted Wood Are you a fabric hoarder like me? I have scraps upon scraps of decorator fabric I have "saved" for that one project I mighhhht do one day. Well that day has come! You'll Also Love: DIY Black and White Staircase I found the perfect project to try to decoupage fabric onto. This old Dresser I found for FREE! Check out my Trashy Tuesday series if you want to see more of the amazing stuff I pull out of Dumpsters. I cleaned the entire piece thoroughly with TSP Solution, wiped it off, then gave it a light sand. There were some parts on the top that required a good spray coat of Laquer to keep the stains from coming through. This was for sure a ...
Trashy Tuesday What The Junk?
Trashy Tuesday, What the Junk? Happy Trashy Tuesday! It's been some time since I have share some of my amazing Dumpster Finds and Road Side Rescues! I haven't stopped my trashy ways, I have just been BUSY! As Retail Director for DIY Paints, Retailer of DIY Paints at Consignment Envy in Brentwood, CA and a full house with College kid home, it's been awesome, but a little nutty. Oh, and did I mention we also got a new dog? Enough about my junk, let's get to the real junk, as in what the junk have I found recently? I actually saw this chair dumpee heading towards the Dumpster with this chair. I pulled over in the parking lot and just waited.....As soon as it left his ...
How To Get The Chippy Paint Look
Get the Chippy Paint look using Debi'S Design Diary DIY Paint and a surprising little tool. I am in the process of switching from a PC to my MacBook. In that process, somehow all my before and during pictures disappeared. SIGH. Cest la vis. Use your imagination. Plain brown table, good bones, needs some love. I wanted to make a fun statement on a little piece. And, I wanted control the chip factor! To achieve the perfect chippy look, go no further than the canning section of your grocery store. That's right. You need canning wax, which is about as cheap of a tool you will ever get. It is sold in big blocks, and for a chippy project, you will use only a small amount. ...
Drawer Turned Shoe Storage
If your family is anything like mine, there are always a collection of shoes somewhere near the bottom of the stairs, or the front door. We have tried several different systems to corral the shoes, but I always disliked the massive shoe pile that would eventually build. My solution? Get a Drawer turned Shoe Storage! If you follow Trashy Tuesday, you saw this drawer I found in a dumpster a few weeks ago. It was solid, massive and just begging for wheels. I turned the drawer over, and secured the wheels with screws. I chose casters that can move in any direction, they cost a bit more, but will make the drawer far easier to use. I sanded the entire exterior smooth and painted ...