Make Your Own Furniture Finishes

If you're into perfect details - and that covers our interior-design-loving readers - then there will be times you'll want to tightly control the finishes on some furniture pieces. Let's say you're padding your client's budget and using flea market or auction furniture ... or you pick up unfinished wood furniture and want to make it look old. Knowing how to refinish a client's furniture will come in handy.

Faux painting and distressing will help turn something new into an old master. The following video from St. Paul, MN shows you how custom woodworkers create something that looks old and beautiful from something brand new and raw. Distressing furniture may well be in your future as a handy, I-can-do-it-all designer; try the techniques in this Designed & Made Custom Workworking video.

As lead curriculum developer for Sheffield School, I always try to discover specialty techniques that will give our interior designers more tricks of the trade. If you'd like to know more about the world of design, I encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Comments

[Interior Design San Antonio]

I stumbled upon this blog today and found it to be really useful. As an interior designer in San Antonio I often find that my clients expect very much with tight budgets. I've recently started giving some of their current pieces a bit of a makeover to help meet their budgets and their expectations. They seem to like it so far - hence the reason I complete agree with your post! Thanks for sharing - now I'm more confident I'm on the right track!

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[Stella]

Making my own furniture sounds great. I´m not much of a designer, but this video looks good. If i could, i would try it.

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[Charles]

I might suggest that you experiment on the bottom of the piece or other part of the piece that is out of sight first if you are trying something the first time. You might even practice on a piece that you might paint later or just discard. This will save you from messing up your primary piece.

[Tai]

Thanks for this information, sometimes finding the right furniture is very hard. And for the right prices is even harder.

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Utilizing flea markets to help redecorate a room or a home is an excellent way to save money while still being able to get that "fresh" look. In Toronto, we have several Flea Markets to choose from, but none as good as Vendors' Flea Market! :) There's nothing quite like finding that just-right lamp or furniture piece, refinishing it and placing it in a room that's being re-decorated. It's such a feeling of accomplishment!

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Making your own furniture sounds fun and challenging at the same time. It's such a great feeling when you see your own creations in your place. It makes you feel proud. =)

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[Franklin]

I really liked the video. Thanks for sharing!

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[Simon]

Wow, thank you for sharing this cool video! I really enjoyed watching it. The results are pretty amazing. Unfortunately, you need a "bit" of talent ;) Maybe I will try it with a small furniture.

Thank you for the inspiration!

Simon

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Thanks for sharing this great video and I just love the music! The end result does look fantastic even if it’s quite a long procedure. In my opinion you cannot beat antique furniture.

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good idea to do own finishing on furniture we buy. but other than using a paint perhaps polish can be considered pretty enough to be applied to our furniture, especially for furniture with wood that has a nice wood grain. polish would be expose the wood grain appearance and will look more beautiful.

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