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.