Easy Furniture Restoration Ideas – DIY Refinishing Techniques

Old ugly furniture doesn’t need to be thrown away. In a few simple and easy steps you can refinish that old furniture dresser into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece! With the full blown DIY craze happening online now, many thousands of people are doing just this. Either purchasing old furniture at garage sales or Goodwill and then repainting it to look like new again. Below we will show you an easy way (and a few more refinishing examples) to do this yourself. Refinishing an old piece of furniture will not cost you very much money. The paint type you use and the types and quantity of the dresser knobs will make your cost vary. So remember, DO NOT throw away your old furniture, RESTORE IT INSTEAD!

Here is an old dresser we purchased at a garage sale for $10 dollars. Perfect for restoring!

We took out the drawers, removed the knobs and sanded the dresser down to almost bare wood.

We then painted the dresser jet black with 3 coats of paint and let dry for 3 hours.

Once painted we added our new silver round knobs to the dresser drawers for a new look!
This only cost us $25 dollars total including the dresser, paint, and new drawer knobs!

Here are a few more examples below of old
furniture that was refinished and refined by DIYers!

Dresser with 2 different shades of blue paint

2 tone paint job furniture restoration

2 tone paint stencil dresser furniture project

Beautiful old vintage furniture refinished

Amazing chevron design on furniture

Really nicely done distressed furniture look

Furniture with distressed paint job look

Professional looking furniture stenciling

Distressed vintage painted table legs

Sheet music painted on dresser drawers

Cool stencil painted on old furniture dresser

Beautiful white with gold accents dresser