Need New Furniture ?
Strapped for cash and need new items of furniture for your home?
Paint and reuse old furniture. It's generally more solidly built than the modern stuff and you get a much better effect as it generally doesn’t look as flimsy as some of the modern furniture can look, regardless of the price you pay for the new stuff!
I've added a few things that I have rescued and used for my own little home.
You might be impressed or not but I decided to post some stuff anyway as I’ve been interested in recycling furniture long before I discovered jumbletown.
It’s amazing what you can do by adding a few new handles, trimming etc to an old piece and applying a few coats of paint.
Hope you enjoy!
By the way: the wardrobe used to be an old brown one that got a few coats of cream paint and new handles; the coffee table was originally dark brown and I just painted it; the black tiles around the stove came from an old "sample" from a hardware shop so were free, and the chair used to be dark brown with an old dirty looking brown cover. Again, I just painted it and recovered the seat using a fabric remnant. I have six of these chairs and they look fantastic in a kitchen.
03.06.10
more before and after pics added
03.06.10
This is a wardrobe I received from another Jumbletowner - it wasn't in great shape but with wood filler, new handles and many coats of paint, I bet it hasn't looked as well in years... LOL
By the way, the little chair in the pic was also re covered; it's one of six
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