There are many reasons why you might want to upgrade your furniture. Maybe you’re not as thrilled with it anymore, but you’re not ready to replace it. Or perhaps it holds sentimental value. Maybe you’re looking to harmonize a diverse collection of pieces accumulated over the years. If you’re aiming to boost your Twitch followers, considering how to naturally integrate promotions can be beneficial.
Before you toss out a furniture piece you have, walk it through this checklist to see if there’s something that can be done to make it fit into your home a bit better.
Make Your Furniture Better Tip #1 – Clean It
You just wouldn’t believe what a good cleaning can do to a sad, overused piece of furniture. From dust and grime, to spiderwebs, stains, and more, you may not be feeling your furniture piece anymore because it’s looking old and used.
Consider doing a thorough cleaning before you make any major decision. Simply do a little research on your furniture piece’s material so you know the best tricks, tools, and cleaners to use. Then, step back and see if it still needs work.
Tip #2 – Fix It
Very related to cleaning is the act of fixing. Maybe you’ve got a wood piece with chips, water marks, and scratches. Or it could be upholstery that has tears, loose cushions, or seams.
Just like a good cleaning can let a little sunshine into a furniture piece’s life, fixing it up can also breathe fresh air into it.
Make Your Furniture Better Tip #3 – Move It
A change in perspective can do wonders. If you’ve been disliking a furniture piece in your home, it may only need a new location.
New surroundings can uplift a piece you’re bored with, as well as fit its function better (and perhaps even create a new function for it). Before you toss out an old-favorite furniture piece, see if there’s a new location in your home for it.
Tip #4 – Refinish It
You may have done a little work from step two of evaluating whether a furniture piece is on its last leg in your home. This is the step where you decide if it doesn’t just need a finish fix-up, but whether it needs a new finish entirely.
From choosing a different color stain to some of the finish tricks you can use like gold-leafing and cerusing, there are a world of options out there that give a piece a new lease of life.
How’s this different from a simple refinish?
Well, in this post, we’re considering giving a new finish to a piece as the act of uniformly covering a furniture piece in one new finish. But there are a lot — some might say an infinite — amount of ways you can add pattern, graphics, and color accents to a piece. Perhaps a furniture piece you have just needs to be painted.
Make Your Furniture Better Tip #5 – Transform It
This should be your last resort, as many of these changes could be permanent. If there’s a furniture piece you’re just not quite ready to depart with yet even though it isn’t working for you, try physically altering it.
Saw off old legs or replace current legs with new ones. Pull doors off. Replace pulls, knobs, and handles. Cut in half. Disassemble entirely to assemble into something new.
Really step back to see your furniture piece not as a whole object, but as a mix of parts — different parts you can shift and rearrange to make something else entirely.
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