Before and After Second-Hand Furniture Makeovers

Second-hand furniture gets restored, updated and transformed with paint and hardware!

Hey, hey!  

Lately, house projects have been few and far between, but I've still been keeping busy transforming and updating furniture.  Oddly enough, I find restoring and painting furniture super relaxing and thankfully, I've had plenty of pieces to keep me busy.  

Even though I haven't been documenting much of the transformation process, I still wanted to share a few recent furniture makeovers I've completed for my vintage booth at Sweet Clover Barn. 

- HELPFUL SOURCES FOR REPAIRING, PAINTING AND RESTORING FURNITURE - 

- Beginners Guide to Painting Furniture

- How to Repair and Replace Old Hardware Holes

- How to Repair Damaged Dovetail Drawers

- How to Get The Chippy Look With Milk Paint

- How to Repair Damaged Veneer

- The Best Sources for Buying Used Furniture and Decor

- How to Repair Broken Furniture Corners

- The Best Way to Paint Over Dark Stained Furniture

- COMMON SUPPLIES USED TO MAKEOVER FURNITURE - 

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- General Finishes Milk Paint

- Fusion Mineral Paint

- Kwikwood 

- Purdy 2 1/2" Paint Brush

- Assorted grits of sandpaper

- General Finishes Finishing Wax

- Waterbased Polycrylic 

- Dewalt Orbital Sander

- Gorilla wood glue

- Zinsser shellac primer

- Screwdriver 

First up is this vintage buffet that I bought from an auction.   I made a few repairs, sanded, painted it in Fusion Mineral Paint Ash then sealed it with General Finishes Finishing Wax in satin.  

I love being able to keep original hardware and was glad the hardware from the buffet cleaned up well with a little soap and water.

This next dresser was an awesome Facebook Marketplace find.  It needed very little work and was a super easy makeover.  It was painted in General Finishes Lamp Black then sealed with General Finishes Finishing Wax in satin.

I wasn't sure about this next dresser, but the price was right and I'm always up for a challenge.  It needed a bit of work, but was nothing a little wood putty, sanding, paint and new hardware couldn't fix. 

There was a lot of sanding and repairs to this one, but I'm super happy with how it turned out.  I painted the dresser using Fusion Mineral Paint Casement then sealed the paint with Minwax waterbased poly in satin.

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I was super happy to find this next dresser.  I rarely pass up a good quality MCM dresser and this one was a steal off Facebook Marketplace.

It got sanded, primed with Zinsser shellac primer, painted in General Finishes Reverent Gray then sealed with waterbased poly. 

This next MCM dresser was another Facebook Marketplace find, which got a similar two-tone makeover.

Painting furniture white is a little more time consuming, but two-tone white and wood furniture is my favorite color combination by far.

It's not too often I stumble upon cool free stuff, so I definitely got lucky with this wood cubby.

Obviously, it needed a bit of work, but it was nothing that couldn't be fixed.  I cut down the top layer of cubbies using a jigsaw, cut and stained a new top using a scrap piece of wood I had in the garage, cut and stained trim pieces that were missing then attached everything using a nail gun.

 Not too bad for a free piece, huh?   

Apparently, Facebook Marketplace has been the place to find furniture, because this last piece was also another Facebook Marketplace find.  

I painted this dresser Iron Ore then added my favorite top finger edge pulls to step it up a notch and give it a little extra masculine vibe. 

Phew, that was a lot!  I may have been quiet on the blog front, but I've definitely still been busy updating, restoring and transforming furniture.  I hope in some small way these furniture makeovers inspire you to transform your own second-hand furniture finds.

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