Tips for painting old furniture 25 Articles

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by Catherine Leahy

Furniture can very easily be painted or decorated in a myriad of ways so that a piece of junk can be transformed into something valuable. However, the only way to do this successfully is to bear a few well-worn rules and guidelines

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by Rachelle de Bretagne

When you are tired of furniture and want to spruce it up on a budget, there are many paint effects that can be employed in making them up to date and fun, bright and cheerful, and even innovative, without needed any real skill

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by Susan Hibberd

Old furniture can be given a fabulous new lease of life with a lick of paint and a bit of imagination.

Painting old furniture to make it look like new again serves many purposes. It can help stretch the budget when you are setting

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by Rob Purifoy

Old furniture can provide a creative license which allows you to personalize it any way you want to. I suggest that you first make sure that "old" doesn't mean "antique", as in valuable piece that you might want to leave alone.

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by Julie Flory

Painting and sprucing up old furniture can be quite a little money spinner. I have made good money from doing just this.
First of all lets take a look at what furniture to get hold of and do up.

If you're looking at reselling pieces

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by Elizabeth Wordsmith

Paint can give new life to old furniture. But, before jumping into this project, make sure your piece of old furniture won't lose its value if you do go ahead and paint it. Some highly collectible pieces of antique furniture

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by Tamera Dondi

Refurbishing older furniture very simply for fun or profit can be easy. For the sake of continuity, you may want to paint your pieces the same color. If you want them to blend, just finish them in a complementary shade.

The method

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by Ray Fauteux

I can still smell the sawdust from the 150 year old desktop as it coated everything in sight. The power sander cleared away layer after layer of paint. Even before the sander I had to use paint stripper to remove the thick layers.

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by ktarcus

The first thing to do before painting old furniture is to try and establish exactly what it is made of. A lot of really old furniture will be made of deal/oak/rosewood or may contain pieces of all of these types of timber. Most

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by Gillian Sand

Want to try something different? Creative approaches to painting old furniture can take that ugly chipped dresser from a basement space-hog to an interesting, whimsical chest of drawers, or even a piece of art. Following are

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by J. W. Nusz

These tips for painting furniture will ensure beautiful, lasting results.

Getting paint to properly adhere to furniture can be difficult. Most furniture is stained and clear-coated (finished), and clear coat will not allow paint

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by Sandra Petersen

So you went to an auction and won the bid on an old dining table and a couple of chairs. You notice the paint or varnish is chipped and you want to repaint these items so that they can be used in your home. You can not just paint

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by Susi Marlina

Painting old furniture is not costly and easy than you buy new one. In order to painting old furniture you need the following basic materials: sandpaper, the mineral spirits, tack cloth, paint brushes, high-quality primer, and

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by D. J. Poe

Painting old furniture depends on your individual taste. You can ask ten different people and get as many answers. The one thing you don't want to do is strip the old paint entirely off the surface. This may be good for changing

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by Will Kester

I love to find an old piece of solid wood furniture and restore it to "like-new" condition, but don't necessarily paint it. If you decide to stain or paint it, the same steps apply in the beginning.

Most older furniture is made

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by Neil Dixon

An old piece of furniture need not be cast out on the local rubbish tip or used as firewood during the bonfire night celebrations. A little bit of tender loving care can restore even the sorriest looking pieces of furniture back

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by Jon Coe

Personally, I do not like to see wooden furniture painted at all. If it is for a kitchen or a children's play room, then I find that acceptable.

An old piece of wooden furniture is just begging to be taken back to it's natural

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by Bob Schmidt

The secret to getting optimum results when painting old furniture lies in proper preparation of the surface to be painted. Imperfections on the surface to be painted will still be visible unless they are eliminated by stripping,

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