Zarrelli Home: Furniture Makeovers

Probably one of my favorite things to do is paint. Since we live in a small space and don’t have a private yard this is often a challenge for me. But I don’t let it stop me. I look for pieces that I can work on indoors and use around our home. Click on the links to see the before and after transformations of my furniture makeovers.

This piece was once dark brown and the leg was pretty beaten up. I restored the leg and painted it in Florence chalk paint.

I found this hidden treasure at a shop near my office. I knew Tom would appreciate this while watching the game in front of the TV….and I’d appreciate him taking his feet off my coffee table J

I initially didn’t know what I was planning to do with this but something about the detail in the legs said “buy me”. Now we use it as a desk seat when we are paying bills.

I just love this little table. I picked it up years ago for $5. This was the first painting project I had worked on in years. At the time I had only knew about Latex paint. This piece got my mind going again and totally had me doing what I used to love. Paint! It also is the reason I discovered Chalk Paint. I was going to sell it on Craigslist and even had some offers but I quickly realized I just couldn’t part with my little table. I’ve rearranged the living room and now have it between the couch and the love seat. The grey plays beautifully off all the blue in the room.

This is one piece I didn’t do for myself. My step mother inherited this piece and once she heard what I was into enlisted my help on this project. It was indeed a ~~nightmare~~ project but it was a fun one at that. We stripped the old paint off of it, brought it back to the bare wood and then I painted it in Barcelona chalk paint and applied multiple layers of clear wax.

We picked up two of these years ago when I first moved in with Tom. There was no room in his bedroom for my enormous dresser so I improvised with two of these instead. When we decided to list our condo I moved one into storage and the other into our living room. The original color it was no longer worked with the flow of the dining and living room. I decided that Paris Grey chalk paint was a good color choice but it needed to stand out and the Pure White chalk paint trim made it pop.

This is just a little project I worked on for my niece’s room. The theme of my sister’s baby shower is pink flowers. When I saw these I knew they would be adorable up on Ali’s wall. Jae is planning on calling her Alison Rose. The Rose part comes from our mother. It was her name and I know she would just love these in her granddaughter’s room since our mom loved flowers. When planning the shower and helping Jae with the nursery I tried to think of what our mom might have brought into it. I think this is something she would have loved.

This is a piece that I picked up at a tag sale for $15. To read about the before and after change click here. Alot of time went into this piece but the end result made it worth it.