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Scared to paint? Here’s a pep talk!

The Frugal Girl

When I posted my last painting project : …some of you had questions/comments that I wanted to answer in a post so that all of you could see the answers. But I also want to encourage all of you by saying that no one ever taught me how to paint furniture. A simple paint job is a good start. So, here you go. But no furniture!

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A Lego bookshelf for Zoe

The Frugal Girl

A nice thing about using the same paint over and over is that this shelf is exactly the same shade of white as Zoe’s bed, which I painted several years ago when I took apart Sonia and Zoe’s bunkbeds. Because it was toooo cold to paint outside (paint prefers more temperate temperatures. ? )

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A storage chest for Sonia

The Frugal Girl

I painted it white, and I put it in Zoe’s room, and then Lisey’s, and then when I moved here, I brought it along and kept it in Lisey’s room. Sonia and I went to pick it up and I brought it home to sand and paint it. Definitely time for some fresh paint. That’s the beauty of painting!

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Two abandoned-house nightstand rehabs

The Frugal Girl

I didn’t really have a specific plan for the nightstands, but you know…a wonderfully freeing thing about starting over with very few possessions is that you can take on a, “Sure, I’ll take it! Anyway, after priming the nightstand, I applied the pink paint which, yes, looks very white. ” approach to stuff.

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Want to save money? Let go of the need for matching

The Frugal Girl

But if you can let go of the need to match things, a lot of frugal possibilities open up, especially in the free/second-hand markets. My free kitchen chairs don’t match each other, and they are definitely not the type of chairs that would have come with my table when it was new. If you DO want random things to match, paint them!

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Free Dunn-Edwards Perfect Palette Paint Sampler

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