Fab Furniture Friday

Lately I’ve been thinking less about decorating and more about furniture. More precisely, refinishing furniture. I’ve seen so many fantastic furniture makeovers floating around the blogosphere, and I find the more I see, the more ideas I get for doing my own furniture makeovers. Not that I have any on the go at the moment – my $1,000,000 table and $2,000,000 chairs took me over two years to finish, so I really need to take a break ;-)

So, I thought I’d start a blog feature that’s all about fab furniture makeovers. And seeing as Friday starts with an F, I decided to make Friday my fab furniture day. So here it is, the first installment of Fab Furniture Friday featuring five fabulous furniture finds. OMG, that’s way too many F words {but at least I didn’t use THAT F word ;-) }

Possibly my very favourite furniture makeover ever – I’ve posted it before, but it’s so fab that it needs to be posted again. By Janell at Isabella & Max Rooms (and also the founding editor of House of Fifty magazine). Janell turned this:

Into this:

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Jill at Live. Like. You. bought this old desk:

And gave it a serious colour makeover – love the orange and the hardware. And the turquoise chair and white ceramic dog are pretty fab too :-)

And I have to share some fab makeovers by my friends and TBBs, starting with Donna at dh designs. I love the Celtic knot detailing and the curvy front on this dresser that she found on Kijiji:

The dresser now has a new look and a new home in Donna’s master bedroom.

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More Celtic knot prettiness from Lisa at Lisa Goulet Design. She started with this dresser:

And then painted it and embellished it with Celtic detailing and crystal knobs.

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And the final fab furniture makeover is from Maureen at Maureen at Modecor Muses. She made over this vanity that used to belong to her grandmother.

Doesn’t it look fantastic in blue, especially against the gorgeous red wallpaper?

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If you’ve taken an old piece of furniture and given it a fab makeover, I’d love to see it and share it with my JAX does design readers. Click here to send me some before and after pictures of the piece and the story behind it, and I’ll include it in an upcoming Fab Furniture Friday feature.

Happy weekend!