DRESSERS - BEFORE & AFTER

The tall dresser was cut down and now works nicely next to a bed at the perfect height.

Before & After of a make-over

As you can see this was an ugly mess.

  After getting a good scrubbing, a paint job, and some new hardware, the doors were then replaced.       

    

                 

It looks totally different now.

I thought the little white dresser was so cute but it wouldn't sell.  So I re-purposed it into a bench and  out the door it went!

This dresser came undone on the ride home.

The determination to save it was worth the work.

I started to scrape the chipping paint to find the 1950’s decals underneath the lead base paint.  It was all removed and refreshed with a couple coats of bright white latex paint. 

This infant storage dresser can double as a changing table.

With the mold on this dresser it was sprayed with 75 percent bleach and 25 percent water.  It sat in the hot sun for a while then washed down good.

I really like the end results, just right for a bathroom.

 

This is the perfect style of dresser to make over.

Freshened up with updated pulls and a coat of white paint gave it new life.

I really like the mix of stain and paint on this piece.

I was a bit disappointed with this vanity. I thought it had eight legs but only had six. My intention was to turn it into two nightstands, but it was two legs too short.  So it just had a bright blue paint job. The bench below was from a church sale.

Every little girl needs a dressing table with a mirror.

It was a little bright but the customers liked it at the Stagecoach Barn Sale.

What color would you have picked?

Stagecoach Barn Sale

Repurposed Bowling Lane

Repurposed the old and gave it new life. 

 This kitchen island was created into a beautiful piece of furniture from
a section of a bowling lane. 

My friend took discarded church shutters and incased a dresser for the base.

 It would also make a nice shopkeepers checkout.

The base was a dresser with lots of deep large sized drawers for storage.

 Wooden brackets were added for extra support and detail.  This would fit in a farmhouse
 to a city loft style home.  If you were short on space in an apartment, it could 
function both as a table or workspace in your kitchen.

FROM RUMMAGE TO COTTAGE PERFECT

 Here is a Victorian style bed from a moving sale for my next recycle project. 

This beautiful twin bed has its flaws; the side rails are broken, the veneer
 is coming loose, and chipping.  It still looked like the perfect 
re-purpose project for a cottage style entry bench.

The footboard was cut in two, to form the sides of the bench.  

The height of the footboard would not line up properly so the feet 

were shortened. 

Cutting into a project like this you need to be aware of the possibility of 
nails or screws in the piece, it’s a good way to damage your blade. 

I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint on the bench.  It looks rough now, but 
when it is  completed it will have a nice smooth finish.  

The bed was painted a cream, buffed up with only light touches of 

blue coming through.

ALL IN A DAYS WORK

Re-purposed projects are all sold at a barn sale held several times a year. So after each sale we venture out looking for more projects to refurbish. We start out early and go all day.  This is the
view from our office window today. The back roads have some of the best finds, as well
as the best scenery, we take it all in. This day we saw some awesome barns. 

This is the life of a real picker.  No one scouts out places for us back at an office, there is
no crew hidden in the back room doing our repairs, no cameras but our own.  We ( 3 women )
re-glue the legs of a tables, chairs, or dresser drawers. We pick it, haul it, clean it, sand it, fix it,
paint it, stain it, re-purpose it, and then we sell it in an old barn that dates back to the 1860's.

Today was hot so we shared a little lemonade with an up and coming Entrepreneur.  

There is beauty all around us we just need to look.

    I love these pictures they make me wonder how life on a farm was back in the day. 

So peaceful

Can you imagine the work and time put into these barns?

Coming back with a full truck is always good.

We’re always happy with “Junk in the trunk” it means we did well!

Part of my loot, more work.

  We want our customers to have a great experience when they come to visit so we work hard
to find the best and unique.  I hope you enjoyed some of the barns I passed by today.