New Furniture

I've been busy the past few weeks working on new pieces of furniture and accents for the house. Jason gave me the "ok" try and find some inexpensive pieces on craigslist, yard sales, and other local resale stores (Goodwill or Salvation Army). My hope is that I can find some nice wood furniture that needs a little TLC and then refinish or repaint it. So far I have been OVERJOYED with all of my finds!! I have been having A LOT of fun finding the pieces and redoing them!! Soon I hope to finally fill our house with new/reworked furniture while staying on a tight budget! :)

My First Project:
A dresser and mirror set
Found it: On Craigslist
Purchase price: $55

Before
(I already took the mirror off to fit it in the car)

Dresser After

I ended up replacing the knobs on the dresser as well.
I think that really helped complete the look.
(The cost of that was 3 dollars x 6 =18 dollars plus tax)

Mirror Before Mirror and Dresser after
(It's in our entryway)

Burlap Monogram:
Cost:
4 pack of Canvases at Michaels, 8.99(on sale) plus and an extra 20% off
$4.21 for a yard of burlap (I have at least a half yard left)
Paint (I already had)

I saw something like this on Pinterest and thought I could make some for our new dresser. I bought deep canvases at Michaels and covered them with burlap using my staple gun. I found a font that I liked and printed out our initials. Traced them with a sharpie and then painted the letters in. I did two coats to make it darker.

Before painting

Burlap letters on the new dresser

Round Side Table
Found it: At a garage sale
Cost: $10

When I purchased this piece I wasn't sure where I was going to put it, but I figured for 10 dollars I could find a place in my house for it!! I was thinking for this piece I would try something a little different. I ended up painting the bottom part of the table a creamy white and then staining the top a dark brown. I really like how it turned out. I also just used only one distressing technique on this one. After painting it, I just sanded some of the edges unlike a lot of the other pieces I have done. I typically sand it after I paint it and then paint on some stain and wipe it off to get an antiqued look.

Table before

Table After

I decided to try it in the office in-between some leather reading chairs. Now I need to get a lamp and some other decorative things to put on the table.

Side Table/Night Stand
Found it: Salvation Army
Cost: $23

I bought this piece right after I finished my dresser. I thought it would be a great piece to go next to the front door. It was a little beat up but that made the finished product that much better!!

Night Stand/Side Table
before

I painted it a dark gray that I found in the "oops" paint section. I absolutely LOVE the color!! I ended up using the original hardware as well, I just used a flat black spray paint to paint them. It only cost me 2.99 for new looking hardware!

Night Stand/Side Table After
How it looks next to the door
Now I just need to figure out what to put on it.

Old Wooden Tool Box
Found it: at a garage sale (next to the round side table)
Cost: 17 dollars (they wanted $35 for it!!)
I thought it would look great next to the aqua dresser in the entryway.

Tool Box before

Tool Box After I also used that great gray to paint the tool box. What a great "oops" find!!
Next to the dresser Any suggestions as to what I should put in it?? I was also thinking of standing it up so you are looking into it. I'm still playing with it... I also want to stencil either numbers or or letters or a combination of the two on the outside or inside to add a little spice.