Trash to Treasure projects
Considering many charities will actually drive to your house to pick up items, it is a wonder people still throw away perfectly good pieces of furniture and decorative items. No matter the reason, Serena from Thrift Diving looks at it as “an opportunity to transform other people’s cast-offs from the ‘uninspiring’ to the ‘unbelievable.’”
I always love to see a piece of furniture reconstructed to serve a new purpose. Alicia from Thrifty and Chic performed one such miraculous transformation on a 1970s dresser that was in a client’s office and on its way to the thrift store.
Karen from Art Is Beauty calls this piece her Humpty Dumpty desk because it was in pieces when she found it on the curb. Karen and her hubs had to dig around in the dark for all the parts. Now that is some serious commitment to the cause!
You may remember the adorable snack tray that Larissa from The House on Harrison made from an old, water-damaged cabinet door she found curbside. Well, she’s back again with another fabulous repurpose for one of the doors!
After replacing her inexpensive barstools with new ones, Whitney from Shanty 2 Chic was about to pass the oldies along to someone else. That is, until inspiration struck to repurpose them into something chic!
Kristy from 4 the love of WOOD had a big challenge on her hands with his secretary desk that was handed off to her. It was plagued with a broken drawer, ink stains, and holes punched throughout. Kristy’s work shows just how handy she is when it comes to revamping vintage pieces. To address the {…Read More…}
Karen’s latest edition of “Trashy Tuesday” over at Redoux features the transformation of this heavy duty desk that had been left for dead outside of a warehouse. After a major cleaning and sanding, Karen primed and painted the piece with two coats of CeCe Caldwell’s Vintage White and finished it with wax. It now holds {…Read More…}
Kristen from Inspired Whims found a secretary desk that had laid unused and stashed for decades. It has a great shape but Kristen was ready to go bold. And bold she went. I am absolutely in love with this transformation. Blue paint, chalkboard paint, some contact paper and a great eye for details Kirsten {…Read More…}
