Upcycling furniture is one of the largest trends for Ottawa condo and townhome owners in the know. Not only can you create some of the most innovative pieces for your living space, choosing to upcycle is also far less expensive than buying restored pieces. Plus, it keeps items out of the landfill and helps our environment. With upcycled furniture you can transform something that you would typically throw away into the perfect addition to your home. Below are some great ideas for how you can work with existing furniture to give it a new purpose.
Entertainment Centre Wardrobes
Spring and early summer is garage sale season in Ottawa, and you might notice a lot of home owners will be getting rid of old entertainment centres. This can be the perfect addition to your room or guest room if you need storage for clothes or linens. You can easily refinish the wood of the entertainment unit to fit the aesthetic of the room, remove any glass doors (if you want) and install some hanging bars in the compartments. The taller compartments are great for hanging clothes and the smaller compartments (usually used for electronics) can hold towels and linens.
Kids’ Coffee Table Arts and Crafts Station
If you have kids that love expressing their creativity but you don’t have anywhere for them to create without ruining your furniture, try converting an old coffee table into a unique crafts station. You can paint the top of the coffee table with a chalkboard paint that allows the kids to draw their own designs, wipe them off, and start again. You can also let them paint, glue, and colour on the table. For seating, you can find small benches for the children to sit on.
Dresser Bookcases
Have you ever come across an old antique dresser and wished that it could be repurposed into something useful? Now you can create your very own bookshelf out of an existing tall dresser that you might have in your home. All you’ll have to do is remove the drawers and find sturdy pieces of wood to use for the shelves on the dresser. You can affix the new shelves to the existing rails that the drawers once sat on. By painting the entire unit, it will look like a brand new addition to your home.
Dresser Entertainment Centre
If you’re a minimalist, consider taking an existing long dresser and converting it into an entertainment center. Buy different knobs for four out of the six drawers on the dresser and a paint colour that will work well with your space. Remove the top two drawers and add a piece of wood to the bottom open space so you can store your consoles. Place your TV on top of the dresser and you have an upcycled entertainment centre just like that!
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