August Furniture Flip Before and Afters

For the end of August, I figured I’d pull together a before and after of each furniture flip this month. My before pictures are more like “as close to the beginning as I can find on my camera roll” pictures, but you get the idea.
A lot of times following along on any one piece can get confusing, considering I usually am working on more than one piece at a time. Here’s the short story of each one to wrap up the month. For more in-depth furniture flip tutorials, check out the post at the end of this article to get started.

August Furniture Flips Before and After

1. Hardware off & cleaned
2. Scrub, then scrub with mineral spirits.
3. Sanded and re-sealed the drawers in polycrylic.
4. Painted the desk with Waverly chalk paint, in the color “elephant” 3 coats. To learn how to paint wood furniture, check out this article on how to paint furniture step by step.
5. Polycrylic desk, 2 coats, 3 on the desktop.
6. Hardware on, drawers in, DONE!

1. Hardware off & cleaned, keyholes taped.
2. Scrub, then scrub with mineral spirits.
3. Lightly sanded
4. Painted desk and drawer separately with the worst paint to work with that I’ve ever used. 4 coats?!?!?! !!!!
5. Polycrylic the desk and drawer. 2 coats, 3 on the desktop.
6. Hardware on, drawer in, DONE!

1. Doors and hardware off.
2. Cleaned hardware
3. Sanded entire desk and drawers. Varnish was peeling over the whole thing.
4. Stripped varnish on the wood trim using stripper.
5. Taped off wood trim and caning on cabinet.
6. Painted the cabinet with Waverly Chalk Paint in color “white.” 4 coats since I initially painted this green.
7. Removed tape, and then taped the cabinet to stain the trim.
8. Stained trim and trim on doors in “ebony” stain.
9. Polycrylic everything, 2 coats.
10. Doors and hardware on, DONE.

1. Drawers out, and hardware off.
2. Used wood filler to fill some deep scratches and chips in the wood.
3. Sanded the wood filler smooth.
4. Scrubbed, vacuumed and cleaned with mineral spirits.
5. Painted the drawers and shells in Waverly Chalk Paint in color “ink.” 3 coats.
6. Polycrylic everything, 2 coats, 3 coats on the top.
7. Drawers in, new hardware on, DONE!

If you are interested in learning step by step how to flip furniture, check out the article below on how to master a furniture flip, where to start, how to plan, and what you need.