Trash to Treasure Thrifted Items to Farmhouse Decor

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel, I'm Javon from Ginger Chic Rehab. I'm very happy to have you back today and if you're new here, welcome. I do a lot of DIY to

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my husband Chris's furniture changes and thrifty new ventures for a

farmhouse

. In today's video I'm going to bring you three junk, two

treasure

s, so these are three second hand

items

that I had gotten and when I picked them up I didn't think they needed much work, the little stool I knew I wanted to reupholster. I liked reupholstering and hanging fabrics and Duke, I like a green pile or a shabby coffee bag with burrs just to give it that

farmhouse

PL vibe and then I love this little rabbit shaped magazine rack, it has some cute scallops on it and When I got anxious, I knew it was super cute, it would be super cute.

Little did I know I had fleshy spots. I guess there's always a reason why people donate them. I discovered it when you have 13

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and then I had them. I picked up this fly, considered a very nice shelf, which turned out to be very, very needed, but after all was said and done, I was very happy with it, so sometimes when you are thrifting, don't just think that you're getting just to paint them and resell them because that's what I do you just know there's a reason you're thrifty none the kind of reason they get donated is because something's wrong with them something's broken something's it's not quite right and so I guess it's the challenge and love of flipping a find and restoring an item for resale so this is the first of my junk hoarding this cute little yellow stool but I really didn't think that that would fit with the farmhouse

decor

, but for 209 I couldn't pass it up, so the first thing I had to do was remove all those staples to remove the yellow leather, so using my staple remover tool and then some needle nose pliers fine to put it in there, I removed it.

I have to say that it fit quite tight. I don't normally use my phone, but since it had a cover that you can't put anything through, I decided to just reuse it and cover it, so after eating it, I took it off and needed to clean it. I give it a little bit of raw color just to make sure that any residue that may have been left on that wood is gone before I paint, so since I like to distress my pieces, I'm using a base coat of black and I'm using black onyx. I'll put it in the description below, so the bottom of this is like a plywood that's a little raw, so it took the paint really well, but I had to apply two coats of black on the legs, so after drying it completely after the two coats. in black, I'm going to use my paint and my primer and one in my matte white, which will also be in the description and I'll give it its layers.

I think I did about three layers of cupping, so after my paint has completely dried, I go. with my 220 sandpaper to give it a nice look so I'm just going to apply rista cat foam using some Loctite spray adhesive so the bedding doesn't have any sharp edges, I made this polyfill fleece so I I will use for In this project I cut out everything I thought I would need to use. I don't want to cut too much although it is easier to cut more often. I tried to put a little bit on and then I'm just using my electric staple gun to Staple it and try not to bunch it up and then I'm just cutting off the excess so I guess I did that and how much I needed for that loose fabric and I wanted to leave that little seam like a detail on this. nice stool so I wanted to make sure I had enough on both sides and that I could keep it even and then I just removed the corners of my square so that it would be rounded for the first two staples that I'm going to put in.

This is to make sure my scene stays straight, so I'm going to staple one on one side and then turn the school over and staple on the other side making sure it's straight and level, so now I'm just stapling around the rest of the chair, just working on it myself trying not to bunch it up in one place so it's nice and smooth and then at this point I can cut off the excess fabric, so of course I'm going to make a template on this, like this I came up with a cute little royal brown on my silhouette.

I came up with a similar idea and Pinterest so I just took two different fun ones and then the design with the little crown and then I just put in the Royal coffee bean. inside the little swirls of a wreath and on the cutout and I used it as a template, so I measured on my little stool where there wasn't a square, this is round and then I cut the image the size of in the middle of that. freezer paper and then use transfer tape to keep it nice and straight because of the lines on the transfer tape and then I had to use an iron to release the freezer paper from the transfer tape and you have to put a towel on top because the freezer or transfer tape would melt and then after removing the transfer tape I went back in with the hot iron with no steam and just pressed the freezer paper shiny side down.

Sorry, that's the melting side. on the fabric and it makes a nice, tight stencil, so now I'm going to use my all-purpose Apple Barrel paint and black that I buy at Walmart and a makeup sponge that I buy at Dollar Tree and do that kind of thing. dabbing technique where you know there's not a lot of paint on the makeup sponge and you just bounce it slightly, you don't want to push it, it goes under the stencil, but the linen fabric absorbs the paint pretty well, so I just have to do a layer and then I let the paint dry completely before removing the stencil and then to attach the paint to the fabric I'm just taking a hot cloth because I don't have parchment paper anymore and just running it over the paint and that makes it nice and smooth on place that you can feel the difference that it's hard paint to smooth with the fabric and then I just seal it with a little bit of Scotchgard because I like to sell any of my upholstery. works with whiskey, so my next junk to treasure is this cute little scalloped magazine rack.

You know, when you're saving and you're picking it up, you're trying to grab it real quick before someone else gets it. You know it well in my shop anyway, you can turn around and be gone, but you never know how immediate it is until you start working, so all these little Brads need to be hammered back in, so here I'm just cleaning them up with my k' Rud Kutter to make sure I have a good surface to paint on so this is where you can see they put the screws in and then the paint chipped off so I'm going to putty on because you know I like to get distressed.

I don't like damage so this piece here was about to fall off so I just used some of my husband's CA glue and the instant dryer to tighten it back up so it would stay permanently there so then I had to lightly sand where I had I like that Spackman as you can see before it was pink and now it's white so I know it's ready to be sanded so I gave this magazine rack three coats of shellac but I didn't film it because I had to take it outside but Now after has dried, I'm going to paint it with my Kills paint primer and everything and a flat white one and I selected it because I could tell the age of the wood when it had the putty on it and it was starting to turn. yellow so I know it was going to bleed through the white so I gave it a total of three coats of white and I know the magazine racks on the inside are a little annoying but you gotta take your time because you don't want to have to do that. the sand drips down so I'm really excited to be able to destress this piece because I knew the scalloped detail was going to wear down really nice and then to seal it I used my finishing pace just to give that nice soft feel and just seal that paint . in Nice, although it's not necessary, I just like this added touch, so my next piece of junk to treasure is this shelf and wow, this is probably the most needed of these three projects, you could tell it was a piece of kit, it had many. of the screw holes I wanted to fill, someone had painted around it, the railing at the top was loose and I was going to have to re-glue it, take it off and re-glue it, and the paint job someone had done on it was not very nice. as you can see and then it had those rusty hangers and then a head where they had screwed it to the wall so this was definitely a much needed piece so first I'm going to remove these hangers that are not needed because I'm going to ask my husband to put in a piece of bead board to make it a nice safe piece and give it a little more luxury being a kit piece and now that I've removed them you can tell by that top that it needed a good k. 'rud Kutter bathroom, so I'm going to give it a good clean before I start caulking it, so if this piece didn't need enough, one of these little hangers was so loose, so I was trying to screw it on, but then I ended up taking it off and gluing it back together with wood when I took it to the garage that way it was nice and secure and you didn't have to worry about it wobbling so now I'm going to cover all those screw holes.

I just don't want this to look like a piece of kit. I think it can be a good piece, but when you know it's screwed together like this, I think it looks better, especially if you're going to paint over it. However, I completed and then I realized that someone had tried to fix this railing with some super glue, so it really needed some good wood glue and I had to scrape off that super glue and then hold it on one side and then clamp it, already You know. that dried then I clamped it on the other side so I just put a little bit of wood glue on some Kleenex and just applied it there and found out that I had to use a hammer to get them tight and then when I took it off . the corner piece had come apart so my husband has a corner clamp which came in very handy for this project so this is where you can see it all clamped and placed overnight until the glue dries then my husband I cut a piece of bead board and routed the edges so they were nice and smooth and then I had to reapply a little more putty and there were gaps anyway before I started painting this, but here I am with my first coat of black how I like it. distress and I think the layers give this a good paint job so after painting my two layers of black I started painting my white and I like the matte paint primer like I said before in the video and then they gave it about two to three coats and I tried not to have too much on my brush when I was doing this because there are a lot of little cracks and a lot of angles to get to and with those little spindles and the little nabis you don't want I have a lot of paint built up so that when you go to the sand there's not that much under the sand so after three coats of And I was in San Dena, there was a lot of sanding and a lot of angles to do, but actually I have a new 220 piece just for all the angles that you know, I just built up the paint didn't build up a little bit in the corners no matter how hard I tried and then to finish this piece I'm just taking that minute I wet your finishing paste again and I did it on this stool at first.

I also do it on all my painted pieces, we just like the smell and how it leaves a nice soft feeling on our painted pieces, so when you throw furniture small objects like this, you never know what you're going to get into, you know you can get it in that thrift store before someone else gets it, so the small stool is probably the least needed of all of these three projects and in fact, it needed a little refueling work, but I love what I do. I love redoing all of these pieces and I know when I picked up this magazine rack I thought, oh wow, that's all this needs was painted, but you never know until you really get into it.

I'm going to need it and I know it was missing a couple of scalp pieces, but I think it adds a nice detail and the same with this shelf. I knew it needed some work, but it became me too. job, so like I said, you never know what you're going to get into when you're 13 and I'm always happy when all I have to do with an item is paint, whether you'd left them at the thrift store or just you would have put them aside and not redone any of this or you would have accepted the challenge where one of these pieces was your favorite, so thank you very much for watching today's video and I hope you enjoyed this type of content and remember in the comments tell me which one was your favorite and if you would have chosen these items or passed them on.

Andrey donated them or just passed them all together. I thank you again. Much to see if you have not subscribed to my channel, please consider doing so, thank you very much.