Beautiful Thomasville Find and Awesome Profit Painting Furniture

It has been awhile since my last post. I'm growing in popularity, getting more and more custom orders, selling shabby chic furniture like crazy, and trying to keep it all going. I'm starting to think that with the winter coming up, I may need to find a new location since painting in the winter wont be possible. I've already started searching online for some sort of shop to work in.

While out hunting for furniture, I found an amazing vintage Thomasville dresser at a resale shop. The price: $75.00. For those of you that do not know, Thomasville is sort of like the Ferrari of furniture, especially vintage furniture. I knew this piece would bring some good profit.

This was my first time staining the top of a dresser. The hardest part was trying to get the polyurethane smooth on the top. I've never done that before either but the customer was more than pleased with it. I sold this baby for $700.

My family members and even some customers are telling me that I should raise my prices since I am selling a lot of dressers around the $350 range. I feel like that is ripping people off since I've only been at this for a few months but I might try bumping up the prices a bit since this one flew out of the barn at $700.

Profit on this piece: ~$575