Reloved/Revamped | Tips for Restyling Old Furniture

I have a few updates of my room and some pieces I have 'revamped' to inject a bit of style and personal touch to some of my furniture.Every piece I have retouched can be done for free, or on a very tight budget. I have scoured car boot sales, estate sales, charity shops, junk shops, bargain bins and high street shops for whatever goodies I can get my hands on!

Before I created anything I put together a mood baord of anything I found beautiful in home & interiors. I wanted to look for inspiration & ideas and develop what style I was trying to recreate. I gathered images, wallpaper samples, magazine cut outs, colour and fabric swatches and photographs and stuck them in a scrapbook for inspiration. Here areHere are a few pictures from my scrapbook:I just stuck down pictures from magazines, cuttings, fabric & wallpaper swatches to build colour, texture and to see what went well together.Ok so now the fun part, getting to make something!So first I went to my local DIY shop and sneakily took a few (rather large) swatches of gorgeous vintage inspired wallpaper in four different colours.

Next I took my old worse for wear noticeboard and covered it in the blue paper. I used gesso to stick the wallpaper to the cork because normal pva would have left bumps and probably wouldn't have stuck aswell.

Next I painted the wood boarder a similar pastel blue to match and then glued on a white lace boarder.Next! Using my left over wallpaper scraps I also covered a plain white lampshade to give it a more vintage inspired feel.I didn't take photographs of the progress for this one, but you can see the finished result below.

(The prints & photograph frames on the left were 25p each from a carboot sale! & the clock was £2.99 from a local home store) The oak mirror frame was also given a whitewash to blend with the other pieces.

Here are a few pictures of what i'm working on at the moment.. you can see how i've revamped them next time I upload.

First is a beautiful American style rocking chair I bought for £15  at a local carboot sale.

I'm not sure whether to paint it or not yet, so i've just styled it in my room with some cushions and a rug I got from the a US estate sale for $1 !Next is another chair I am working on which so far I have sanded down, cleaned and painted a soft cream colour. I bought some beautiful fabric to cover the seat with, I just haven't got round to doing it yet.Here are some pictures of my progress so far..I'll update again when I've finished these projects.For more of my tutorials, interviews, inspiration & flea market finds see my inspired:finds blogBye for now. x