Unfinished Furniture: A Great Way to Get Creative
Some people think about unfinished furniture and imagine an awful piece of furniture that takes ages to make and even longer to paint. Well this isn’t the case. Most unfinished furniture is actually already made and waiting for you to give it the finishing touches. This is a great way to buy a decent piece of furniture without worrying about the cost.
When people think of unfinished furniture they think about flat packed furniture with no instructions and a cheap look. This is not true. What it really is is a piece of furniture that simply needs to be stained or painted.
By buying one, you would save on lots of money on your furniture all the while still getting a good quality piece of furniture that won’t let you down. You can buy just about any style or type of furniture including unfinished bedroom furniture, tables, dressers, chairs, cabinets etc. and paint or stain them and use proper sealers to seal them.
There are so many up sides to buying unfinished furniture that we couldn’t fit them all in so here are a few that we think are the most important.
– It is constructed using real wood boards while most of the lesser expensive furniture that you find at stores are constructed with low quality wood and sometimes with particle boards covered with a wood veneer. If at all these low cost furniture be constructed with real wood, you are most likely to encounter issues like knots, blemishes, cracks etc. in the wood and these are usually hidden with paint or stain. Instead of buying these low quality and low priced furniture, it is advisable to buy higher quality real wood piece of furniture that is unfinished and the price is close to the low quality finished furniture.
– The cost of unfinished furniture compared to finished furniture is very good. They cost much less unfinished and can be a real deciding factor when buying some furniture. The high quality of unfinished means that you are getting real good value for money. You could pay a lot more for a finished piece when all you need to do is buy an unfinished piece and give it a lick of paint yourself.
– If you are a person who is creative and likes to work with your own hands, you can consider it a project to buy a high quality unfinished piece of furniture and do-it-yourself to finish it by turning an old unfinished piece into a beautiful piece with just the addition of paint or stain.
– You can finish the furniture any way you like. You can stencil it, or use wallpaper to cover it, you can even use a wood burning tool to give it a unique wood burn design. The choices are endless.
– Anyone can do it. You do not need to be a great DIYer or have an art degree to make a piece of unfinished furniture look good. All you need is a bit of imagination or failing that some interior design magazines!
When you buy unfinished furniture and do some final finishes, you’ll have a high quality and unique piece of furniture that has your work on it.
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