I have so many great junkin’ finds to share with you today! Really GOOD deals on thrift store finds plus lots of freebies!
My neighbor Rodney cleaned out his garage and passed these fun bar stools!
FREE junkin’ finds
He also passed along this small wooden cabinet.
I requested this hollow core door from his burn pile!!!
A neighbor had a yard sale and I got this huge artwork (frame) for $2.
They also were selling this cute little kid’s wooden rocking chair.
A local friend was getting rid of this antique vanity. I have the drawers too!
A gal can never have too many legs, right? This was a great deal from John at Vendors’ Village.
Speaking of Vendors’ Village—look at the cut frames I got. Many of these were 80% off!
These are a couple more cute frames, I also bought some really large ones. I can’t find pictures. 
Stop by tomorrow for the reveal of about nine frame redo’s. You’re going to love them.
A twin headboard was found by a dumpster. Did I need another headboard? NOPE!
I also didn’t need another stool, but this was only $5.
I’ve already given this little stool it’s makeover for last month’s Thrift Store Décor Project.
Here’s another curb find—a great fireplace. I can’t wait to paint this bad guy!
Do you have any suggestions of what I can do with this stuff? It’s really hot here, so I may be taking a little time off from large projects. I will be doing smaller projects in the basement shop.
What goodies have YOU found lately?
gail
Eileen says
July 4, 2018 at 9:46 pmHi Gail, oh my goodness I’m so excited about your new camper! I’ve always wanted one like that too. I can’t wait to see how you glam it up! I love when you show us your raw materials and ask for input, so fun. Let’s see the two bar stools, I’d paint fun colors and recover with great fabric or even good quality vinyl. Make a bistro table out of your stash.
For the tall chest of drawers, I think it would be cool to turn it into a tall root vegetable bin with tip down pull out drawer fronts. You could stencil the front with veggie names. Pull off the back and cover with painted hardware cloth for ventilation.
The vanity table I would pair with the white chair. I’d separate the two sides from the middle and extend the top. I’d cut off the lower drawers and raise on tall legs that are more in keeping with the slim trim. It could then be an office desk (black with sanded off blue gray undertones.) Or an easier fix would be to make two bedside tables, swap out the bun feet for something more slender.
The little chair needs a new color and fabric choice, maybe of blood red or hunter green. I remade a little foot stool like your two, by simply covering in thick firm foam with black ostrich skin vinyl. Looks posh and is perfect for putting up your feet while sitting on the couch.
The head board I can totally see remade into a low bench by removing the sides, cut them in half for the legs and the panel piece for the seat. You will have to trim it straight. Or you could use the tall white spindles and make a back of the couch or front entrance tall narrow table.
Picture frames you can use with a mirror, or blackboard, or cork board, or cover with fabric and hooks for jewelry display or craft/sewing room organization. You can paint all of them one color and make a wall collection out of them. You could even cut up an old paint tarp for instant abstract art.
The fireplace surround is gorgeous and I would be tempted to leave it as is. But you’re such a wiz with a paint gun I can still see it redone. Maybe that oxblood red again for a red kitchen, lucky is the person with a fireplace in the kitchen! (Like my sister.) Maybe that “all complete” craft/sewing room. I saw someone’s done in black and white and it was gorgeous.
I don’t know what to do with a hollow core door except shelving. Hmmm, there’s that room again. Oh wow, I just thought of it, turn the door into a draft table for the art room. I can see your booth display now, one item just leads to another. Best of luck!
Gail Wilson says
July 5, 2018 at 10:35 amWow Eileen! My head is spinning with all of your ideas. 🙂 It’s so hot here now, so these projects may need to wait awhile. The way you describe making the bench from the headboard is a little hard for me to visualize since it seems so different than the way I usually make headboard benches. hehehe
Thank you so much for your wonderful input. I truly appreciate it.
gail
Eileen says
July 7, 2018 at 2:58 amHi Gail, I know I wasn’t the most clear in my description. On the headboard I was thinking of removing the two posts from the center panel. Then take the two posts and cut them in half to use as table legs for a little table or a bench.. The center panel could be used for the top by cutting the ‘arms’ off the sides with a straight cut. My problem is that I don’t know for sure how big this headboard is so it might not be very practical to do this makeover. I was envisioning a narrow entrance table or a bench with the square legs at the back and the turned legs at the front.
Pam Allen says
July 4, 2018 at 1:51 pmI simply LOVE this fireplace!! If you’d be willing to sell it to me, email me back with details. Thanks.
Gail Wilson says
July 5, 2018 at 10:36 amPam,
Are you in the Louisville area?
gail
Jennie says
July 2, 2018 at 1:14 pmWhat a darling little rocker. I’d paint it a bright color and recover the seat with some big boy fabric. Then take a drive with your glamper to Nashville.
The bar stools could be made into a bar height bench. A cute bench that still has a comfortable back to go with the pallet bar.
The little black chest is just screaming for some Chalk Couture design.
The door can be used as a workbench. It can be cut down and then cut a 2×4 down to slide into the cut edge.
The frames the big ones can be tops of end tables, trays, you can string wires or staple chicken wire to the back, sort of like a cork board but use tiny clothes pins to pin up photos of a grandchild. That way you don’t damage the photo with a push pin. Also if any of the framed pieces are on canvas you can reuse them. Wipe it down well with a Clorox wipe, then a damp cloth, let dry, and put a base coat on it and go, but keep in mind that canvas gives, if you use chalk paint might it crack.
The waterfall vanity, bed side tables. But I’m not sure about the missing or broken foot. I guess you could get rid of them all and put a small bun foot. If that’s a draw in the center make a cute dog bed, use large wooden cabinet knobs for feet. Lucy is getting one for my art room. It’s the center drawer from the desk I’m making into a chest.
I look at the bed frame and the posts would make cut legs on something if they were turned upside down. The wood in the center could be a cool coffee table with a woman’s face leaning on her arm on it. I know I always want to use something as an art piece.
The stool is darling, put a wood top, paint it, Chalk Couture something cute and fun, stool for the bathroom.
The electric fireplace, minus the fire part. Hmmmm…… I’m just not feeling it, but it is 107 here today. How about putting a board where the opening is painted black, and gluing rounds of wood on it in a tight pattern to look like it holds firewood. I don’t even remember where i saw that but it was cute.
Sorry I just had no ideas today😉
Gail Wilson says
July 5, 2018 at 10:59 amYou always have (and share) the best ideas Jennie! 🙂
Pam says
July 2, 2018 at 10:21 amOh my gosh Gail….you found some amazing pieces. I have been slowly weening myself off roadside shopping I just don’t have the room or the get up and go! I am sure you will do some amazing things with your finds.
Gail Wilson says
July 5, 2018 at 11:00 amThe heat’s about to do me in Pam… so some of this will have to wait till it cools off, or maybe I could work on it in the basement shop. 🙂
I do try to be more selective about what I pick up because my stash is growing really fast again.
take care!
gail