Facelift

I'd like to share my experience as a rookie giving a facelift to the furniture in my apartment. A year and a half ago, I invested in a small apartment next to the beach in southern Spain. After the down payment for the mortgage and other expenses, I was left without a budget to spend on furniture. In order to give the flat a brighter and more personal touch, I decided to paint it myself.

The flat had a mix of wooden furniture of different styles, types of wood and colors, so the idea was to make everything more uniform.

To do this, I followed the procedure below for practically all the furniture :

• 3 layers of chalk paint for the white areas
• 2 layers of chalk paint for the colored areas
• Decoration with stencils (purchased at
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• Paint stripping in white and colored areas.
• For colored areas without stencil decoration, I gave white wax as protection.
• For the white areas and stencil decoration areas I applied 2 coats of matt water-based varnish.

And these were the results:

I used the corners of a storage bed base that was in very bad condition to make a night light and also decorated some wooden boxes.

My apartment feels much brighter and homely!

I hope you like it.