I have primer, can get paint and have some time - my question is, is it worth the bother?
We are just about to complete on a fixer upper house - trouble is we won't have the cash to do what we want until next year (extension, new boiler, basically everything). We have also spend every penny to buy it.
I have a small budget to make it live-able in (think lifting carpets, sanding floors, striping walls, lining paper and cream paint everywhere, tile paint over the bathroom tiles - all of which I can do well).
What we don't have much of is bedroom furniture for the children as moving from fitted. I was thinking of buying some nice sturdy (charity shop) chest of drawers & wardrobes and painting them. I have also inherited some mahogany dining chairs that are really not to my taste and thinking about giving them the cream treatment too for my new Scandi style breakfasting room!
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Painting old/second hand furniture - is this do-able?
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everythingtodo · 13/04/2012 17:54
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