Make Cheap Furniture Look Like A Work Of Art

Allison Walker, Your Home
Patrick Brown, host of The Learning Channel show “Home Made Simple,” bought a little table for $15 at a flea market, then took it home and made it look like it cost a fortune, without having to buy many things.

Brown said you can refinish an old surface by sanding it down until it feels like grass, then spray it with polyurethane.

The quick-dry kind takes only one-half hour, and you get a gloss.

Perhaps the easiest and most affordable trick is simply paint.

“Painted furniture is really in right now,” Brown said. “You can go to the mall – one of the high-end furniture stores in the mall — and spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, and accomplish the same look for a fraction of the price.”

Brown used a painting and distressing technique on the table’s legs by spray painting them, then roughing them up with sandpaper, a chain and even an ice pick to create work holes. That creates an antique look of something that is not really an antique.

To create a glossy finish, you can pick up polyurethane at most home goods stores. Once sprayed on in liquid form, it hardens to a solid plastic.

Taken from http://www.cfnews13.com/