Another Custom Order!

Well, I got another request for a custom order. The lady wanted me to paint this small desk and chair black with some minor distressing on it. I got $200 for the order and it was an easy project. She'll be covering the chair herself.

After I finished this piece, I realized that I've pretty much mastered painting furniture as far as the painting process goes. I know that seems a little far fetched since I've been doing this for less than a month but look at that finish!

This piece looked like it was painted with a professional sprayer or something. The customer hasn't seen it in person but she is already very happy from the pictures. It looks even better in person.

Two Weeks of Painting Shabby Chic Furniture

I've slacked off on the blogging but I've been very busy painting furniture for some sweet moolah. In the past few weeks I have purchased quite a bit of furniture and also got my first custom order!

I also decided to start a Facebook page. I think it would be a good idea to start a following for people who are interested in what I do, or who are actively buying furniture. Who knows. You can follow me here: www.facebook.com/dfwshabbychicfurniture  https://www.facebook.com/thatshabbyguy (Updated to correspond with my new business name)

I'm going to rush through this post since I am kinda beat from too much furniture painting. There's a lot of pictures to show off.

I got this for free out of an abandoned storage unit thanks to my storage facility manager!

Sold this beauty for $400! My highest so far! $350 profit!

Got this one with a matching dresser. $100 for the set.

...and here is the matching dresser.

Sold this set for $550 for $400 profit.

I bought this dresser for $125 and sold it for $400. $250 profit.

I got these two dressers for $100 each!

Matching chest for the $200 set.

Someone on my Facebook page custom ordered the set for $800! $600 profit! 

I'm constantly looking for more furniture and I have bought more furniture to paint but I'll save them for later posts when I get it all painted and sold.

My painting furniture for profit business is still going strong. The past two weeks has yielded $1600 profit. I'm still in line with my previous post around $800 for the week. Shabby chic furniture is very profitable. I hope that I can continue this pace!

I Made Nearly $900 This Week Painting Shabby Chic Furniture!

Painting furniture for profit has been pretty good this week. I've painted more shabby chic furniture and everything is going good. I'm still new at this so I've ran into some problems here and there but it is just a learning process.

I decided that it would be best to paint near my storage since traveling to my grandparents every day is a bit of a drive, plus it is 100+ every day. My local storage facility has been nice enough to let me paint in a climate controlled 10x10 unit.

I picked up these two pieces this week. I paid $150 total. ($50 for the top one. $100 for the bottom one)

The top one was already painted but it was caked on big time. At first, I was hoping I could just resell it, but the paint job didn't look very good to me so I figured I would paint over it. Here are the results for these two pieces.

The top piece with the brown top was my first attempt at glazing. It didn't work out too well. I've watched some videos on how to do it and I think that by using stain as a glaze with a wax top coat was the problem. The wax seems to remove the stain. I'll have to look into that some more.

I sold the blue one for $250 and the black one for $300. 

I also did my first shabby chic bedroom set and a pretty cool painted coffee table. I'm still having people call me about the coffee table and originally had 3 or 4 people clamoring over it. I only paid $10 for the table. I was able to score the bedroom set for $250!

I'm starting to get good at applying the paint. I don't like to see brush strokes so I am, instead, painting furniture in thinner coats to get a better finish. You can see the wood grain in the coffee table in the finished picture. The coffee table sold for $150 and the bedroom set sold for $700

All in all, not a bad week of painting furniture for profit. I spent $410 on buying furniture, pent approximately $100 on supplies, and sold these pieces for a total of $1400! Rough estimates on profit put me around $890 for the week. 

I really think anyone can paint shabby chic furniture for profit. This is only my second week and I'm making some pretty nice money! I'll reinvest this money and keep it going for sure. I'm all in on this thing now.

How I Made $400 in One Day Painting Shabby Chic Furniture

Do you want to hear how I made $400 in one day painting shabby chic furniture? Sure you do!

I'm so excited about my results today that I decided to start a blog about it. I really think that painting furniture for profit is an interesting subject, especially with how hot shabby chic furniture is right now

I've painted a few small shabby chic style pieces in the past but I didn't feel like I was very good at it and I went in another direction when it came to making a few extra bucks. To be honest, painting my first piece was a nightmare. It was a little nightstand and I didn't know what I was doing. (I still don't think I know what I'm doing! Hah!) However, I when I put it on Craigslist, it sold in one day for $50. Look at this thing. Bleh!

My first piece. Look! I didn't even have the drawers in right!

That was back in March. I dabbled in selling on Ebay for awhile but after that slowed down, my wife said I should try my hand at selling painted furniture again. So went out the other day and picked up two dressers. The cost? $150 for the pair! Not bad if I do say so myself.

I was so excited, I ended up staying up all night painting them. I started around 9:00PM and finished at about 6:00AM. Are you ready to see the results?

I have to say, I was intimidated about painting furniture that was larger than the small nightstands and coffee tables that I did earlier in the year but it was pretty much the same deal. It just took longer.

So, I put these up on Craigslist when I got home. I priced each one at $300. That seems to be the price that most people are selling shabby chic furniture at right now. I was beat, so I conked out for a few hours. When I woke up, I had missed calls and texts from people wanting to purchase them already!

Long story short, by 6pm, I had both of them sold and delivered. I spent about $50 on supplies. Luckily my grandfather's barn, where I painted these at, had a lot of tools and stuff that I needed already.

My total profit for painting shabby chic furniture like this? Somewhere around $400. I just made $40 an hour and I barely even know what I am doing! I'm going to go get more dressers and keep this going. I'll try to update as often as I can. To be honest, I have a bad habit of not keeping up with blogs but I'll do my best to share my experience with anyone out there that is interested.