Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Make Funky Furniture

Funky Furniture


Possibly you're setting up your cardinal apartment and your budget for furnishings would barely insert a week's value of diet. Watching those programs on television which fanfare you redo one amplitude for $1000 are daffy in your begun bottom line. Here's how you can assemble funky furniture that is good and functional and garner your budget intact.


Instructions


1. Constitute funky furniture away of conscientious approximately any outdated or broken down quantity of furniture you can catch at flea markets, garage sales, thrift shops and largely share me downs from family. Stain wood, recover seats of intelligible dining chairs, spending money hardware and much furniture feet can be swapped outside for a funky gaze.


2. Homogenize and match parts for funky furniture. Sand, stain and varnish an getting on Oak-tree table top and brace it with some 1960s metal cookhouse table legs that keep been wet sanded and sprayed nigrescent.


Catch four wooden dining chairs, preferably non-matching. Pick these up cheaply, paint each a bright color. Recover the seats easily with coordinating fabric and you've got instant wow power.


3. Sand, primer and paint a variety of pieces to completely change the look. Create these one-of-a-kind painted funky furniture finds using only the small bottles of craft paint found at your local discount store.


Don't hesitate to pick up something that may have deeper scratches in the wood. Realize this is an easy fix with wood filler and a putty knife, then sand the piece, and then paint.Make furniture look funky by doing something that you normally wouldn't see done on furniture.


Apply two to three coats of the latex craft paint that has been thinned with a little dab of hot water after your piece has been primed and prepped. Let dry well between coats and then follow up with two coats of a satin or semi-gloss water base polycrylic to protect the finish.4.


Pair a classic repainted piece with quirky hardware for a wonderful contrast that's still funky, but easy on the eyes. Have fun, use your imagination and save your money for living. Enjoy!