40 Easy Thrift Store Makeovers

One of the things us DIY bloggers are known for is taking thrift store finds, whether it be furniture, knick knacks or other things, and making them over into beautiful items for your home. So when we get challenges to do just that, we say YES! Bring on the makeovers.

For several years, a group of us participate in #SwapitLikeitsHot, a makeover challenge where we shop for used item and send them to someone else to transform. At the bottom of this post you’ll see all the links to the participants in this year’s season of the Swap. Be sure to click through for all the makeover projects.

If you’ve never shopped at a thrift store, you don’t know what you’re missing. There are tons of treasures to be found and tons of options for making them into something new. You can:

• Paint it
• Foil it
• Stain it
• Cut it up
• Connect it to something else
• Take it apart and put it back together

You can see examples of all of these at the blogs below.

For my makeover, Michelle at Weekend Craft sent me a box full of goodies, some of which I can’t even makeover yet cause of our terrible weather. {It snowed this past weekend, boo}.

I got a set of black wire baskets; a small set of drawers for sewing; a big bag of gold pencils; and a wooden sign.

I plan to makeover the sign and use the baskets as a planter outside but the pencils, I was stumped! Maybe a radial wall hanging? A letter made out of pencils? Or just give them to Dan to use golfing for the next 78 years?

While I was thinking I grabbed the small chest of sewing supplies and got to work. With a quick cut with my hand saw and a few coats of spray paint a new little shelf for my essential oils was born. Since I tend to misplace them all over the house, this will remind me of which is where when I need it.

Go visit Jess at Bright Green Door to see what shamed with the items I sent her and have fun visiting the Swap! Catch all the fun on social media t #SwapitLikeitsHot

MONDAY

Hearts & Sharts | 58 Water Street | I Am a Homemaker | Prim and Propah | Create & Babble | Windgate Lane | Gourley Girl and Guy | Dogs Don’t Eat Pizza

TUESDAY

Confetti Style | Blue i Style | Polished Habitat | Two Purple Couches | Run to Radiance | Restoration Redoux | Confessions of a Serial Do-It-Yourselfer | Our Southern Home

WEDNESDAY

Erin Spain | Prodigal Pieces | That’s My Letter | Southern State of Mind | Roadkill Rescue | Always Never Done | Year of Serendipity | Casa Watkins

THURSDAY

Two Thirfty-Five Designs | Finding Silver Pennies | Ciburbanity | The House of Wood | Decor Adventures {you’re here!} | Bright Green Door