DIY Furniture Home Projects

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.

It's a design book dedicated solely to celebrating black-owned homes, and we're showing you some of its inspiring images and sharing a decorating tip from it here.

The fresh upgrades include $15 furniture feet, edge banding, black paint, and some contemporary brass hardware.

You *and* your dog will be able to tell the difference...

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.

You can pull it off for under $15.

Here's the easiest-ever daybed.

A timeless Before and After.

The "after" serves as vibrant dish storage.

This couple used BILLY bookcases to cover an awkward door and add much-needed storage to their historic condo.

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.

According to top designers and creatives!

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.

And it's currently on sale!

It works with IKEA BILLY bookcases, too!

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.

What happened to them, anyway?

Expert tricks to take your next DIY project to new heights.

Perfect, temporary solutions for all over your house.

"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!

Want to try repurposing some indoor furniture for outdoor use? Here's how to do it right.

A Redditor shares how a table with scratches and stains was saved.

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.

Old becomes new with these inspiring design tweaks.

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.

Here at Apartment Therapy, we love a good before & after. Although many of our before & afters feature down-on-their-luck furniture pieces rescued by enterprising DIYers, some of my favorites are the projects in which a whole room is transformed. Check out some of the best makeovers of 2013. TOP ROW: 1. Before and After: Bri Emery’s Living Room Makeover 2. Before After: From Boring Bedroom to Chic Shared Space 3. Before After: A Blank Wall Gets Shelved 4.

Finally, you can go camping with your bed.

Renovations often produce dramatic results, but that doesn’t mean you need to rip out floors and knock out walls to make a statement. Let’s look at some of our favorite big, bold, and beautiful Big Reveal transformations, using just the power of paint and decor. Re-edited from a post originally published 9.27.

Do you have a piece of furniture in your home you love, but it’s just a little too “heavy?” We don’t mean weight-wise (though certainly, it could be heavy that way, too). We mean, visually heavy. A piece that feels like it takes up too much room. Like it knocks off the visual balance of a space. Here are five of the best tricks to visually lighten up a heavy furniture piece and still make it look great.

You can also hang it up on the wall.

Apple green plush or tweed linen? Each one gives a different lookIt’s true that even a simple change of fabric can change the look of a piece. Take this sofa, the Chet from CB2, which we’ve blogged before. In apple green velvet, the sofa reads nouveau 80s, modern and sleek. In linen, the look is softer and would easily fit in amongst the simple wood pieces we’ve been seeing a lot of.A good upholsterer can: change a straight arm to a rounded or flared arm.

This is a pearl of wisdom that I received years ago and wanted to bring back right now. When in need of a really simple, nice, natural material desk, use IKEA butcherblock countertop (which is cuttable, sandable, stainable and paintable) and some cool legs (like the Vika Inge style seen here, which has been replaced with Vika Runtorp).

The Parsons table is one where the square legs have the same width as the tabletop, regardless of its other dimensions. Its history is characterized by contradiction: created to be a simple canvas for exceptional materials, its design is simultaneously credited to the famous designer Jean-Michel Frank and to anonymous design students. But is the real story even more muddled?

During Meredith Svoboda's final walk-through of her Nashville home, she photographed the dining room, "dreaming of the life I could bring to this room," she writes.

"There's nothing like that instant gratification feeling of completing a project like this over a weekend," this YouTuber and DIYer says of her two-day project.

These five spaces embrace eye-catching murals to give you just the inspiration you need. 

"We were in the process of renovating our whole bathroom and really wanted a wooden vanity, but the ones we liked were all out of our budget," this homeowner says. IKEA hack to the rescue!

"I love the classic look and the added closed storage," this DIYer says of her innovative railing swap.

From chair rail moulding to a custom headboard, this dreamy bedroom redo has tons of DIY projects to copy.

The eight-week challenge will help you start — and finish — the project you've been dreaming about.

A dresser in the kitchen?! This DIYer proves it's absolutely a good idea.

The end result looks like a much more expensive piece of furniture that would fit in with a ton of different home styles, from traditional to modern farmhouse.

The new scalloped shelving is a must-see!

All under $100.

What was old is new again.

This primary bedroom has luxe-looking details for less, thanks to some ambitious but well-executed DIY projects.

Hilary Farr has to decide whether she loves it or lists it.

It was inspired by a clever IKEA hack.

This homeowner duplicates her dream sideboard using an inexpensive IKEA hack.

The best part? The whole redo is renter-friendly.

Flat-pack furniture or bespoke built-ins? In this redo, it's hard to tell.

This one belongs in the IKEA Hack hall of fame.

New paint and new hardware also helped give this nightstand duo a more modern look.

Spice racks are surprisingly versatile!

Staple gun + stretchy velvet fabric for the win.

From big box to bespoke, these nightstands get an ultra-colorful and patterned redo.

Here are eight of the best ones on the market right now.

In the latest episode of the HGTV series, Jenn gave their home (including the kitchen and living room) some functional and modern upgrades.

"Cheers" to a vintage-inspired home for vintage glassware!

Neutral? We don't know her.

A lot of cat beds stick out like a sore thumb, so to remedy this, one designer has turned it into something else: a side table.

And it’s far from kitschy.

The new look is perfectly traditional-meets-modern.

Sometimes it just takes a little bit of upgrading for a furniture piece to be functional and presentable in your home.