up cycling furniture

As usual I havent updated this because between turning 40 in September  school with the kids and the million other things we have had going on even before the holidays I barely have time to breathe some days.


Now on to my latest adventure....


This all started with rhiannon needing a new dresser. It had to be long enough to put her TV an other electronics so we had to shop around for a bit to find one to meet our need and price range(In other words cheap...lol) What we found was this bizzare 70's tacky monster. So rather than use the dark thing as was Rhiannon decided to make it an up cycled artistic piece. I really wish I would have thought to get pictures before we started.

As you can see with paint what had been started to take on new life. She decided to make all the drawers different to go for a completely funky look

This is as the drawers were drying
We used rustolium painters touch in lime green to cover the main body of the dresser. The stuff is great, it bonds with any surface and coats really nicely.(and much cheaper than krylon with no need to sand or prime)

This is the finished product. She loves it and it is quite the art piece

We had so much fun we decided to try our hand at a few more pieces. Our next purchase was a 1960's end table with Formica top. To compensate for that we used Gliddens gripper primer which will stick to even shiny finishes.(This stuff is my new best friend) We chose a nice teal color for the top and black for the legs.

The start piece, nice and sturdy, well built and cost a whopping 10 bucks at goodwill.

First coat of teal

adding the black

The finished piece, it got a double clear coat for durability.

Having finished that I rescued our old coffee table from the garage and began in on it so they could become a matching set.

I didn't get a chance to grab a final photo because a friend bought them off me as soon as it was finished!

We have been looking for a cabinet for Rhiannons room to curtail some of the general clutter and I found this china hutch that the glass was out of so they were selling dirt cheap.

I nabbed it but once it was here we found out it is to large for the space we needed it to fit in(never let the teenager measure) So I decided to rehab it into a kitchen pantry style cabinet. The main body is getting a coating in a stormy grey blue color, the drawers and doors to add a splash of happy color is a light grassy green. Instead on putting glass back in I am putting in blackboards.

Here it is getting the first coat

blue done, as you can see from the garage door its a tall piece.

   This was 3 days ago, the drawers are now painted and the whole thing has the first coat of clear on it. I will  get some pictures of what is done with it put together tomorrow. All I have left to finish is the doors the the boards to back them, thankfully if the weather changes to rain like they claim I can work on those inside the house while the kids do school.