We all have one of these in our home or garage, or we definitely know someone who has one around. You know, the OLD dresser that is solidly built, but solidly dated in the look. You know my motto: Don't throw out, Redoux it! Let's dive in and see how easy it can be to makeover an old piece of furniture. The Prep for your old Furniture Good news! If you use DIY 100% Natural Clay & Chalk Paint. You really don't have to prep. Just start with a clean piece of furniture. Make sure it is free of dirt and especially anything greasy. If it is especially slick (like you can see your reflection in it) or laminate or plastic, you might want to give it a quick once over with a ...
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How to Upcycle a Cheap Bookcase
Take a cheap Bookcase and turn it into an awesome rolling cart! You probably have one of these in your home somewhere, or in your garage? And if not, there are plenty to found in your nearby thrift stores, or in my case, Dumpsters! I think my favorite project to makeover is a Bookcase Makeover. There are so many options! I love putting wheels on them, framing them out with old wood and creating an entirely new piece of furniture as a rolling cart. You can see some of favorite Bookshelf Upcycles Here. This project is super easy to do in an afternoon. You will need a cheap bookcase. There are thrift stores brimming with them, and in my case, usually a Dumpster will ...
Makeover a Lingerie Dresser with IOD and DIY Paint
Happy Trashy Tuesday! It's a Lingerie Dresser Makeover! It was time to start clearing out that garage full of junk again and finally get to a diy furniture makeover. I am VERY good at adding to the collection of junk in there. If you have not had a chance to check out some of my Trashy Tuesday posts on Dumpster Diving, then please start HERE. This wood furniture piece has been in my garage for probably over 2 years. That is probably making all of you who only have one piece at a time to work on very uncomfortable about now. But truly, with this much stuff, how is a girl supposed to choose who goes next? My friend Kim from Just South of Urban moved a couple of years ...
Trashy Tuesday Top 10 Bookshelf Upcycles
Trashy Tuesday Top 10 Bookshelf Upcycles Bookshelves are one of my favorite easy upcycles. When I am out on my weekly (sometimes daily) Dumpster cruising, I often find broken, thrown out, old, ugly bookshelves. If the people throwing them out only knew of all the amazing upcycles you could do with an old bookshelf...well, they would probably still throw them out because it does require some effort. #1 Cheap Bookshelf turned Rolling Cart I found this bookshelf in a sad Dumpster. This is one of my most popular pins and most favorite bookshelf makeover. It was transformed with DIY Chalk & Clay Paint in Sea Glass and Mermaid Tail. I added reclaimed wood that was ...
How to Find Free Furniture – 5 Easy Steps
How to Find Free Furniture - 5 Easy Steps This is an updated version of a post I ran in November 2018. I am always discovering new ways to find free and adjusting and improving my skills. Read on if you want to get the best tips on how you can find free furniture! If I were a superhero, and had only one super power, it would be to make 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 superhero, 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 ...
Trashy Tuesday my 10 Best Furniture Upcycles
Trashy Tuesday my 10 best Furniture Upcycles Happy Spring friends! It's time to do some Spring Cleaning with all that Junk in your Garage! Or maybe I should say all that junk in MY garage :() Is the warm weather inspiring you to do some purging, painting and upcycling? It is me, (even though as I type it is raining AGAIN here in Northern California). I have been at this Trashy Upcycle business for about 20 years now! I have been documenting the upcycles for about the last 12 or so? I thought it was a great time to dust off my favorites and share your favorites as well. In no particular Trashy Order, here's the Junk: Last summer I was contacted by Marne Jamison, ...
My Top Ten Best Junk Makeover
The Top Ten Junk Makeovers of Redouxinteriors.com I can't believe a year of junking in 2018 is behind me and it is almost the end of January 2019, where does the Junk (time) go? Answer: much of it is in my garage.... If you are new around here, to catch you up. I started painting furniture when I was a Young Married, a million years ago. Fast forward a few years, friends started asking me to paint their pieces. That turned into a full blown painting contract business, kitchen cabinets, built ins, you name it, I painted it. While I was so grateful for all the work, I longed to stretch my creative wings and sell my pieces. I started small and it caught on fast. When I ...
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 be a ...
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 ...