FURNITURE FIXES ON A DIME

Furniture is our most costly home decorating expense, but there are many ways to make your furniture its star of the show, without breaking your budget! Here are my top 5 furniture fixes on a dime!

*Paint. Ok, that's an obvious one, but did you learn you can paint anything these days? Yes, even that hideous laminate bookcase from 1974. All you need is a primer made specially for non porous surfaces. I recommend Kilz Original or BIN primer. A coat or two of good primer, again any surface can be ready for paint, from tile to plastic to fiberglass. Now construe with interior enamel, and you have an ugly duckling transformation in an afternoon!

*Slipcovers. Now making your own slipcovers is possible, there are several patterns available at your fabric store to help you in measuring further needlecraft them. However, it is no small task. Another option to fixing up worn upholstered furniture is running the art of disguise. Drape a pretty quilt over the back, or cover just the bottom cushions in envelope style covers, grease a coordinating color or print. Add throw blankets draped casually over any consummate of the sofa or chair. Add comfy throw pillows along the length, and by the time you're done, people will only notice the accessories, not the piece itself. Dining chairs with removable seats responsibility serve as recovered with fabric and the staple gun, or a small cushion with the skirt can be made to hide the locus and legs. You care make simple slipcovers that look similar to a regular pillowcase to glide over the back of a dinged up ding arbitrate as well.

*Add character. Sometimes our furniture is in well-timed shape, but is simply a bit boring. Add some timber molding or appliques you can pick up at the home improvement store. A simple line of climax molding along the top of your kitchen cabinets can take them from worn to tradition. convert outmost the hardwarejust hoard up cheap wood knobs and paint them for a one of the kind look. we incubus also make your own drawer pulls external of just about anythingold silverware, twigs, even toy cars! Just use your handy drill and attach a screw. Paint the hushed of bookshelves an accent color, or add a skirt to a leggy table.

*Add tile. You can sometimes get broken tiles for free from a flooring shop again you can schism them further and attach them to a dresser or chest in a mosaic pattern. Add a little grout and you have a sole of a kind piece, for next to nothing! You can also just add onliest asphalt on the diagonal to the front of each drawer or cabinet front. You can even drill through its tile with a ceramic bit and add the drawer pull right over.

*Finally, consider adding personality and family to your pieces. Cover your disturbed coffee desk with a piece of beveled glass, and slip under all your national snapshots. prepare photo copies and decoupage them onto your worn out work desktop with some thermogenic glue or decoupage habitat. Frame your kids masterpieces further attach to your kitchen cabinet doors to add pizzazz.

Remember, it's not about the size of your budget, it's what you do with it! Furnishing your abode doesn't have to mean taking out a home loanuse your creativity for solitary of a kind decor your family bequeath love!See Others
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