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10 fabulous furniture facelifts {dressers}

If you are anything like me, and you love amazing, creative furniture revamps, then you will love this series…for the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of my very favorite, very fabulous, furniture facelifts! Each week will feature a different furniture piece, and we’re starting with one of my favorites today…dressers! Cheap to acquire and able to fit in almost any spot in your home, dressers are my very favorite piece to redo. Here are 10 of my favorites…

1) stunning two-tone piece via design sponge

2) between the chevron, stained top, and distressing, I can’t decide what I love best about this piece via twice lovely

3) you MUST click over and see the before-this piece went through an amazing transformation! detailed tutorial provided…via all things thrifty

4) adoring the stripes (and color!) of this piece via bhg

5) stickers (not stencils) are the secret to keeping this dresser redo simple, via lindauer designs

6) “WOW” is all I can say about this diy inlay dresser via little green notebook

7) loving the color of this amazing redo via knack

8) the number knobs make this piece via domestic adventure

9) so perfect for a boy’s room (and did you notice the knobs?) via the empty nest

10) with a beachy feel and stained wood top, this dresser is perfect, via uniquely chic

Amazing redos, right? Thought you’d all agree:)

What piece of furniture would you all like to see for my next “fabulous furniture facelifts” post?

Have a great day!

grain sack chair (the burlap+blue way)

January 4, 2012 By burlap+blue

Yesterday, I shared this post on my french chair makeover…

I knew that I wanted it covered in something grain sack-ish…I love the neutral, cozy farmhouse feel of grain sacks, but after looking at them online (or, rather, the pricing of them), I quickly realized I couldn’t justify the cost for my first upholstery project.

Enter my trusty go-to: the dropcloth. With nothing but some dropcloth fabric, painters tape, some craft paint and a paintbrush, I had something that wasn’t quite the real thing…it just looked like it was.

Step 1: In my experience, aligning and painting the stripes is best done AFTER fabric is attached to chair. Like I mentioned in my last post, stripes can be hard to line up correctly, especially with all the tugging and yanking you have to do to get the fabric taut. So, first attach your fabric to your piece, then use painters tape to mark your stripes. I stuck one piece down the center, and one piece on either side of this piece to form two stripes.

Step 2: Press tape firmly into fabric! The last thing you want is for the paint to creep underneath the tape. Truly. I’m not sure what I would have done if this had happened, but, fortunately, it didn’t. Using just a little paint at a time, paint between your strips of tape to form your stripes. Use paint sparingly, as you want the slightly worn, shabby look of grain sacks…not perfect, bright stripes.