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 ...
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Trashy Tuesday Garage Sale Leftover
Trashy Tuesday Garage Sale Leftovers! Garage Sale Leftovers! I have decorated much of my house from free Junk and Garage Sale Leftovers are one my favorite ways to get free furniture. I am also sharing what I got for free from my Junk network and of course, the Dumpster! It's been a while since I have posted some good freebies! This one is for my friend Patty who has been an awesome follower of this blog since the very early days, many years ago! If you haven't seen me on YouTube, please go check out my latest video and follow me there for more junk makeovers! Check out my latest video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfLN3Av35uk No matter how packed my garage is, I ...
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, ...
Trashy Tuesday – House of Junk
Trashy Tuesday - House of Junk Is your house literally full of junk? Mine is, in a roundabout way. If you are new here, take a look at my junk makeovers. About 90% of the furniture in my house is upcycled, JUNK. Exhibit A. My Bench Made Entirely of Junk complete with Shoe Storage from an Old Drawer. You are here for the real junk though, right? I have a garage FULL of junk. Other people's junk. Stuff people have literally placed in or around a Dumpster. This lovely table and chairs was next to the Dumpster at church a couple of weeks ago. Oh, the blessings of going to church! I sold this lovely set yesterday to a sweet family who were so happy to have a new ...
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 ...
The Best Way To Find Free Furniture
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 ...
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 ...