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- Anyone who recently moved into a new home or refurnished their space knows that buying new furniture can be enormously expensive.
- But with products like wood polish, paint medium, and a little elbow grease, you can fix or salvage your old furniture, giving it a totally new look or improving on its condition.
- As an avid DIY-er, I rounded up some of the best and most useful products you can use to restore your household favorites or cheap thrift finds.
Whether its your phone or your canned goods, everything you purchase comes with a shelf-life. Though we'd like to believe our material objects are made to last a lifetime, some things - like your old lunchbox - should probably be disposed of at some point in time. Tossing a $2 can of beans isn't cringeworthy for most, but when it comes to large or expensive items that cost more out of pocket, the disposal process becomes more difficult.
Take furniture, for example. People spend hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on quality pieces only to see them damaged from everyday use - leaving owners with the option to toss their pricey investment pieces or to let them linger as defective additions to their otherwise decent-looking room. Though there is the option of buying new, what are you supposed to do with the old furniture? I know enough people who would rather sleep on a broken bed than carry a new one up five flights of stairs.
Through a little research and personal experience, I found a dozen ways to completely refurbish old furniture. The best part about all these projects is that they're all pretty simple to carry out and they all cost way less than investing in a brand new piece.
These 12 products can help you refinish and refurbish old furniture, countertops, and more:
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