How to Take Your Boring Furniture to Funky Town

There must have been numerous times when you have wondered what to do with some cheap junk pieces of furniture that have been lying around in the garage or backyard. You may not feel like giving them away or trashing them, because of attached memories. On the other hand, they might look totally tacky if placed inside the house as part of the regular tasteful furniture you have so carefully chosen for embellishment. Here is a great way to get creative, and salvage the essence of bad furniture. Get your children to help you paint patterns on your cheap furniture and then, voila, it becomes a treasured memento.

1. Get hold of the things you will need, namely, sandpaper, a soft, tidy rag or cheesecloth, any water-based primer, paint brushes (either the foam or bristle kind), any water-based craft paints of your preference, an empty tub (margarine, ice cream, whatever with a lid on) which you can use as palette to mix your paint in, and a polycrylic with water base.
2. Start your project by getting rid of any current hardware on the furniture. Sandpaper it, through and through. But then, you do not necessarily have to scrub it down to the naked wood level for this method, it is enough to just reach the stage where it is even and flat to touch if you get your bare hand to run over it. It is a better option to first sand the furniture slightly with a medium grit paper and then progress to the next level of working with thin sandpaper. While you do either, you have to be certain, that the sandpaper is changed properly such that it gets you the desired results.
3. Then, rub the furniture up and down with a lightly wet rag or cheesecloth, which you need to rinse often during the procedure. Wait for the furniture to dry completely.
4. Draw any pattern you want to on the furniture.
5. Next comes the painting. For starters, apply one coat of water-based primer to the furniture.
6. After this, employing paint color of your desired preference, mix it with a small quantity of warm water in the tub. Water-based craft paints can be purchased at discount shops, and are cheap, costing a mere 89 cents to a maximum $2. The best part is that these come in a riot of colors, so you have a lot of options to make your choice from. Just even out the paint on the furniture, such that it looks equally distributed. Put on one paint coat, fasten lid back on the tub, as long as the first coat dries. Keep following this procedure till you have put on the furniture an average of 3 coats of paint.
7. For permanent color, add another three coats of water-based polycrylic and you are all set for your very own funky furniture.