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July 30, 2019 by D9

30 Painted Furniture Projects

Painted Furniture. So many options! So many colours! And so many styles. I have been doing a Pinterest deep dive to gather up some of my favourite examples in a multitude of styles. I do this to inspire you to go and find a piece that speaks to you, and really make it your own. But I have an ulterior motive, I also do it to inspire me. Because I already have 3 pieces of furniture chilling in my garage, and I need to find my next project. Are you wanting to try your hand at making over an old piece of furniture?  Well, you have come to the right place – I have compiled THIRTY examples to show you how you can up-cycle furniture, with paint. Let’s go!

French Provincial (My fave!)

Definitely one of my favourite styles, ok, actually it IS my favourite!  This is a style of furniture that I don’t really get too stressed out about adding paint over wood. Because as you will see in these examples, paint really seems to enhance to details of these beautiful pieces. The original dressers are usually medium stained wood, or painted white with gold accents, so a coat of colour is a big improvement, and these are absolutely inspired!

Peacock Blue. I put this one first, because it’s really one of my favourite pieces by Thirty-Eight street. Isn’t this an amazing shade of blue? well, and of course the furniture is AMAZING!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. Source

So pretty in all shades, but I really love these in blue. And this royal blue is so good. You might notice as you make your way through this post, that there is a bit of a blue theme running through it, which makes sense because, well just look at this!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

And how about a little splash of red? This gorgeous vanity is called Queen of Hearts. This is done in general finishes holiday red

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

And even with more muted tones, the beautiful lines of this furniture shine through. I could use little round table like this in my living room. I’ll just add this to my shopping list!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

As much of a fan as I am of painted furniture, I really really love it when some of the original wood is preserved. Somehow it seems so much more spectacular when just a bit of the stained wood is highlighted. I love this piece!Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Same concept here, with a bit of a ‘forever in blue jeans’ kinda vibe, as named by the artist. And I feel the need to point out that this shiny finish is actually chalk paint, with a topcoat. So, you see chalk paint doesn’t have to look like you just pulled a piece out of the back of your barn 🙂

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Mid Century Modern

I used to think the term mid century modern was a bit ostentatious. Otherwise known as 1950’s furniture 🙂 🙂 I remember when I was in my 20’s, my boyfriend’s mom sold me all of her old living room furniture, it was classic mid century modern. But that was a long time ago, and it’s long gone. Oh well, it wasn’t the expensive stuff anyway. Onward!! 🙂  I currently have a mid-century piece in my garage that I’m working on, I’ll link it up here when it’s done. It’s looking pretty good so far.

This one has a similar colour scheme to the one I’m working on. The colour combination of natural wood and the black is so good, so classic. General Finishes lamp black is such a great shade

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Here is my finished Credenza!

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But who says that you have to stick with black. How about ORANGE?  Wait – orange? Yup, orange. Well, I think you could probably pair this piece with any colour because it has such FABULOUS lines. This tricky part is finding these diamonds in the rough. Maybe this is why I check online a couple times a day… Oh and NICE touch with the clock – BAM! And funny thing, while I was still writing this post, I actually found a very similar piece to this one online. I didn’t buy it though, due to space restrictions, but good to know that they are out there!!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Now that’s some colour! Patina  and rust. You can buy versions of patina green But this piece uses a lot of technique besides just paint to achieve this finish. And it has GF lamp black too, which is a fabulous paint.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Don’t you just love the little detail between the upper drawers on this dresser? Plus it’s got serpentine drawers, which get me every time. Check out the nice ombre effect that she did with her paint. And I loved how she found some left-overs from previous owners in the dresser 😉

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

source>Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

Chunky Furniture

This is another style that really speaks to me. This blue piece below looks VERY similar to my parents bedroom suite, that my Dad is still using. I remember when they bought it, and it’s still going strong. I find it interesting that people keep a bedroom suite for a lifetime! And I think that a lot of people do! I don’t of course, because I’m a furniture hoarder 🙂  Most of these seventies-ish pieces came in that very dark wood finish, so it’s nice to see them get lightened up with a coat of paint. And these chunky detailed pieces are PERFECT for glazing to really bring out their depth.  Ok. truth I have a couple night tables my garage in this style too (See… furniture hoarder) Ok, how fabulous is this shade of teal!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Yep we also had these mis-matched end tables, not the pedestal version, but the standard square and hexagonal set. I love the way she highlighted these using lighter colours, along with the gun-metal grey. I’m a huge fan of metallics, so this one had me at hello! I just saw one of these little raised tables  for sale the other day… wonder if it will make it’s way into my garage as well.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Oh Baby, his piece has so many beautiful traits! A bit of wood, a bit of metallic, hell, a bit of a peek-a-boo. A. Plus it’s really perfectly staged. Fab. U. Lous.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Another 70’s end table finding a new life. This  little blue beauty, has some great detailing, circles and swirls oh my! And do you know what? The base is spray paint!! See? No reason you can’t do this too!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Colour Blending

If you are going to use colour, might as well go big or go home. But let’s be honest, this is one technique that you can really screw up. Do you know what happens when you mix all the colours of the rainbow together? You get poopy brown. No worries with these talented bloggers, colour masters all! Keep scrolling and engulf yourself in colour.

Bianca calls this piece Calypso. Definately go and check out her full post to see the before photos, because this is an amazing transformation. The original piece was kind of… well ugly really, nothing like it looks here. AND she has great videos of her process.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

This piece below from Brushed by Brandy, has a full 4 part video series that walks you through the entire process. You get to see the entire transformation from start to finish, of the piece shown below.  Yay, I love learning, especially from really skilled artists.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Another one of Brandy’s below. She does nice work. A great place to look for inspiration.

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Two of my favourite things combined. A Bombay chest (I love Bombay chests!!!) and colour blending. Plus I’m kind of smitten by this metallic pink, or Rozay, as they call this shade by Dixie Bell.
Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Glazing

See what I did here? Added in a bit of red for you, to balance out all of the blue. Ok, now I’m for sure working on a glazing project. I’m pretty sure it won’t be as fabulous as these ones, but you gotta get through your first one right?  Ok, let’s all aspire together to have our first glazing projects look something like these pristine pieces. And this chest is done in the same shade of holiday red as the Queen of Hearts (above) was. It’s a great red!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Notice the nice little touch of gold on these girls. Looking very stylish and refined, and maybe just a little bit French!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

This piece is named “GeorgeMichael”. What a fabulous piece of furniture, and an equally fabulous paint job. That is what we are here to  learn after all? How to increase the fabulousness of furniture with paint! Doesn’t this beautiful piece of furniture just make you swoon a little?

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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I was amazed to find out that the hutch below was done with chalk paint and wax. It looks so metallic. Love love love this colour combo,  I’m definitely inspired by this to find something to paint and glaze Aren’t you?

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Whimsy and Funk

There are a few people who do funk, and then there’s Brittany Pistole. You have probably seen her painted furniture before, it’s all over Pinterest. I don’t even know how she comes up with her designs. And her execution is flawless. Brittany offers painting courses if you want to learn her style! Look at the crazy piece below!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

This is one of what she calls ‘Snow White approved’ vanities, there are a LOT of these.  Don’t you think that if you owned this piece, you would sit in front of it saying “mirror, mirror on the wall…” 😉 ALL DAY LONG!!

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Tracey of Tracey’s fancy also does whimsical  painted furniture. Here are a couple of her pieces below

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

I had just seen this headboard on Instagram, and I HAD to include it here. Such an amazing example of painted furniture that really makes a statement! Plus I’m thinking this would have been a lot of fun to paint. There’s just something about gold…

sourceDo you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone.

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Bombays

Did I mention before that I LOVE Bombays, I think I did. They come in so many amazing shapes and sizes, and when you add a coat of paint, It gets exponentially better.  The photo below almost looks black and white, but it’s blended in shades of grey, not quite 50 though 😉

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

It’s NEVER too early for Christmas, a little green and gold to get you in the spirit?

Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

Check out the beautiful feet on this chest. I just love the chubbiness of bombay chests.  Different shapes and sizes all of them, like all of the people in your life

<Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. source

And this one is mine. A little zebra paint job for my ugly old bombay chest. Go and see what it looked like before, it was UGLY.

Upcycled Dresser. Zebra Bombay chest Do you love beautiful unique furniture, but hate the cost? No problem - You can make it yourself. Come and see how I took this old Bombay Dresser and up cycled it with metallic paint. Not a stencil. Free pattern for this zebra stipe pattern #paintedfurniture

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>Do you love Painted furniture, I do! Check out these beautiful and inspiring painted designs. So many styles of furniture including French provincial, mid-century modern, chunky, bombay and whimsical. Styles include glazing, blending, painting staining, waxing and chalk paint! Something for everyone. If you were thinking about trying your hand at painted furniture, you have 30 examples here to guide you. If I can offer you one word of advice it’s this: For your very first piece of painted furniture, go and find a throw-away to start with . You don’t want to take that heirloom antique that you spent a few hundred dollars on and mess it up. There is lots of free furniture out there that needs a makeover, so go rescue a piece and start painting!! And then go and find your treasure!

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  1. Jan says

    August 7, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    Someday…..

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  2. allison chaidez says

    October 9, 2020 at 3:05 am

    Do you sell any of your pieces?

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