Giveaway- Furniture Hacks: and other creative updates for a unique and stylish home
Leave a comment in today’s post by September 25, 2015 and you are in the running for a copy of this upcycler’s dream book filled with tons of great ideas and tutorials on how to transform all sorts of stuff!
Open to U. S. residents only please.
“Discover how to update and repurpose homeware and furniture for an effortlessly chic home. Nowadays, it is easy to find affordable furniture for your home from chain stores, but those pieces can lack character. This is where furniture hacking comes in–updating, repurposing, and personalizing to create stylish, unique masterpieces. Here, Hester van Overbeek shows you 35 ways to update your home accessories, soft furnishings, and even wooden furniture, all with step-by-step photos to guide you along the way. Projects range from simpler ideas, such as a table made from stacked old magazines (that can also act as a stool) or a patchwork rug, created by sewing small inexpensive mats together, to ways to create larger pieces that cost a fraction of the price it would be to buy them new. Discover how to make your own four-poster bed by combining a budget bed base and pieces of reclaimed wood, or convert a bookcase into a sideboard. There are five chapters–Living Room, Kitchen and Dining Room, Bedroom, Home Office, and Outdoor Space–and each one includes a “quick craft” idea for beginner upcyclers, too. Why not paint cutlery handles with nail polish to update them, or make your own bedside light simply using a shelf support? Hester’s philosophy is that you don’t need much money or many DIY skills to make your house into a cozy, stylish home. With the right inspiration, you can create something beautiful.”
Would be a great resource for making the old new again.
Oh I would love to win this book. I’m always looking for ways to make things for my home out of older items. Thanks for the chance.
Getting ready to redo some furniture in the near future. This would be quite the handy book to have around!
I would LOVE to win this book! I’ve picked up several pieces of furniture that needs some repurposing and reusing lately. Some creative and new ideas for working with vintage pieces of furniture would be a great book to have!
I love upcycling. This looks great, thank you for hosting this giveaway.
Cool book! Thanks for the chance!
This would be a great addition to my library. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m getting ready to move and am starting over fresh, so this book would be great for me!
Looks like great book for inspiration.
Very cool.
Need to redu old instead of buying new!
I just love these creative ideas and want to try many of them.
This is a great upcycle book and would love to win it.
cool book!
I love DIY – I hope I win!!
Could really use this 90% of outer furniture is all hand me downs and don’t match. Could really use an update.
Ooo, what a fun-looking book. Upcycling just is hardwired in me. Plus, the book secretly whispered it wants to come live with me. Thanks much for the giveaway! 🙂
I love using older stuff to make new stuff! Always on the lookout for good ideas. Thanks for the chance to win this book. 🙂
I would love to win this book and give it to my son-in-law! He is very good with this type of woodworking and now he’s retired from the Air Force after 20 years and can do a lot more of it. Thank you for the opportunity!
Right now, I sure could use this book! I’m in the process of re-doing the inside of my home and love repurposing furniture and accessories!
What a great idea for a book. Thanks for the chance to win.
I would love to be able to make some of these hacks.
This looks like a fun way to update furniture!
This book is exactly what I need in my life! We’ve just moved into a bigger home and need all sorts of furniture. Thank you for a great giveaway! Good luck everyone!
What a fascinating looking book–might have some really great ideas judging from that furniture on the cover!
Love it !
I am always ready to learn something new and this book would be a great resource.
Love finding new ways to repurpose old things!
Always looking for good ways to hack stuff around the house!
Putting this one on my list !!! Furniture Hacks,,,looks like a lot of new ideas for me to learn..Thanks
OMG I got completely lost in ideas, following your links. brilliant!
This looks like a great book with ideas for the upcycler! I can’t leave a thrift store without wondering if I should have bought that chair… or table… and transform it!
I am elderly but new to dyi and crafting. I would and could use all the help and knowledge that your books have to offer. I love your information and ideas. Thank you for the opportunity to
win.