Before & After - Hubby's Dresser

I found an old dresser on Craigslist for $40 I bought it and after, some wood glue, filler, sanding, 5 cans of white spray paint, and some hammered metal paint for the pulls, my husband has a new dresser.

His previous dresser looked weathered, was falling apart, and did not go with my "vision" for our master bedroom. Now this wretched dresser looks clean and bright, I am happy with the way it turned out, and he is pleased to have more room!

Before & After - Spice Rack

While digging through a barn at an estate sale, I came across a dirty, sad looking spice rack. Upon seeing this icky little spice rack what would come to my mind other than a nail polish holder (because nail polish is awesome and it is strewn all over my dresser and needs to be tamed)!!!

I think I paid 25 cents if that much for the thing. I painted it to match my wondrous, stupefying, marvelous dresser and all my nail polish fits perfectly (I'm going to have to hunt for a bigger spice rack because I will be running out of room VERY soon!!).

Before & After - Old Mirror

I found an old mirror on an auction website in our area and decided to bid on it. I have been searching for a low cost ornate mirror for a while but those that I like ended up costing way too much like $150 too much. I won the bid at $25! A partial can of white spray paint later and this is what I now have; an awesome mirror! Once we finish painting I can hang this in my "sitting room". 

Before & After - Icky little cute chair

There is nothing a little burlap, staples, and lime green spray paint cannot fix.... right? I found this chair for $10 at an estate sale, the same estate sale where I found my spice rack (aka stunning nail polish holder), this was in the house attached to the barn. It was dirty and had nasty stains on the seat, nothing a little cleaning, and refinishing could not fix. I'm loving my new lime green chair!

Flea Market Footstool - Before and After

I have finished the footstool I bought this weekend (yes... that quickly). I love it; now I need to finish the wing back chair that will go along with it.

Wingback Chair Progress

I have been working on my Wingback Chair for a couple weeks, doing a little bit at a time. The hardest part has been taking out the millions and millions of staples! I mean seriously! I get it, the material needs to stay on but millions of staples really?!?!? My poor abused hands... okay enough complaining.

I have gotten all the material stripped off and the chair is in such great condition that I can reuse all of the padding and batting. I ordered my material from fabric.com, and supplies from diyupholsterysupply.com.

So, tomorrow I plan on painting the legs and starting the reupholstering process. When I complete the chair I will do a post on my process, before and after photos etc.

Here is what I have done so far:

Before

During; material stripped off

ReStore Table, Before and After

I bought this table at the Habitat for Humanity Restore for $20, Silver Spray Paint and Primer $6 for a grand total of $26.00.

Before

After

Craigslist Chair - Before and After

I have completed my first chair!!! YAY me!

The chair cost me $0, the fabric was on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $5, plus a can of black satin spray paint, and primer $6 for a grand total of $11.00.
Here are the pictures:

Craigslist Finds

This past week I got two chairs from sellers on Craigslist.

Chair #1: was an old Wing back chair that is structurally sound with normal fading fabric, cost $30; this chair will be my first big re-upholstery project.

Chair #2: started out costing $25 and was said to be in perfect condition, then the seller discovered there was a tear in the canning on the back of the chair that took the price down to $15, after I met with the seller she told me that God told her to gift me with the chair; so, I got it for free. She was a sweet generous older woman with a nice heart. I appreciated the gesture; and free is within my budget!

Guru inspecting the Wingback chair

Now to get the tools and find the right fabric

My FREE chair!

Satin black Krylon spray paint, black & white floral print for the cushion.
I have to figure out how to fix the tear in the canning.

Next project: Sitting/Reading Room Table

I bought this little table a couple months ago from the Habitat for Humanity Restore in Plano, TX for $25. The price was right and an added bonus is that all proceeds to go towards helping Habitat for Humanity provide affordable housing for those in need. This will be painted and be placed in my sitting/reading room; updates later!

I love the legs and shape of this piece!

I finished my first furniture piece!

After a week, of being sick and feeling terrible I have finally completed the dresser that I bought off Craigslist!

I have been "sharing" half of one drawer of a dresser with my husband for the past 2 years, and now I finally have my own dresser with multiple drawers all just for me! It took me all of 2 seconds to move my stuff from one dresser to the other.

Materials/Products Used:
Krylon Blue Ocean Breeze spray paint
Krylon Spray primer

RustOleum Hammered Metal spray paint
Sander (sandpaper)
Minwax Dark Walnut stain
Minwax Polyurethane

I am happy with the final results; I can't stop looking over at my gorgeous blue dresser!

Thoughts?

Finishing up my first furniture piece.

I bought a cute dresser off of Craigslist about a month ago with the intention of refinishing/repainting it. I decided on chocolate and turquoise for the master bedroom and bathroom. So I wanted to add punches of color to the bedroom through accessories and furniture pieces.

I hope to complete the dresser tomorrow, but in the meantime here are some images of what my husband and I finished today.

My husband sanding the top of the dresser (with my birthday sander)

Added Minwax Dark Walnut stain

Added a clear glossy sealant to the drawers

Placed repainted hardware back on drawers

Had a mishap with one of the drawers that needed to be fixed

Additional progress images:

Fixing the top of the dresser (it was loose)

Before paint

Primer

After paint

Before

After

More pictures of the finished product later!