Furniture Before & Afters | DIY, Hacks & Restorations

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This dining room bar feature goes from too-small to totally grand.

When this homeowner's dream media cabinet was out of stock (and $5,000) she hacked her old IKEA BESTA to get the look she was after.

All in, the project cost $120. Not bad for its sophisticated new look!

Patience and sweat equity led to dramatic results for this 1970s sideboard makeover.

When the marble table this DIYer wanted cost $600, she decided to create the same look with a $20 ReStore table and some paint instead. The results are shockingly good.

This homeowner's project cost her $0 because she used what she already had. But even if you had to buy all new supplies, your project total will come in under $100.

A timeless Before and After.

The "after" serves as vibrant dish storage.

The "Frozen" star teamed up with the Property Brothers on the latest episode of Celebrity IOU.

A great headboard instantly elevates a bedroom, taking the main focal point of the room — the bed — from understated to luxe.

The secret to the budget-friendly project: buying secondhand, shopping around, and DIYing it all.

A perfectly good headboard gets a new life with a fresh boho-inspired look.

The lessons learned here? New hardware can work wonders on old furniture, your nightstands don't have to match exactly (or at all!), and creating a custom stencil can be a great way to create a one-of-a-kind look.

This built-in project helps keep a family of five highly organized.

When one blogger found this chair at Goodwill, she could envision it in her daughters' bathroom — just without the red paint.

"I got this project done within a week of thinking of it because I was just so excited about it," this DIYer says. "It didn't take long at all to install. I did it all by myself with no help — that's how easy it was!"

For under $100!

Patching, painting, and sanding turned this crusty dresser into a modern showstopper.

For $180!

Nancy from Marcus Design took the Rast dresser from IKEA and DIY’d it into a Dorothy Draper-inspired Hollywood Regency accent piece for her bedroom. Check out her step-by-step instructions and try this at home! Nancy’s first step was to prime the surface of the dresser and spray it with two coats of black lacquer spray paint from RustOleum.

Anthropologie’s Ordinal Dresser is one popular piece of furniture — so much that this is the second dresser makeover we’ve seen based off of it. The first one was a low, six-drawer version, but this one will have you thinking twice about which dresser is the original, and which is the knock-off. It’s hard to believe, but the above dresser was made to look nearly identical to the Ordinal, all for only $30!

Almost two years ago, I wrote about reducing the visual noise of this glass-door bookcase I use for DVD storage. Though not ideal for this purpose, the piece has sentimental value because it belonged to a neighbor/surrogate grandmother who has since passed away. My original effort to reduce the visual noise using paper I had in the house was successful, but never really made my heart sing.Skip ahead to last month when I found this beautiful inspiration image from Elle Decor.