If your furniture has seen better days ‑- or decades ‑- or if you're just plain bored with your current collection, it's time to make a change. Helen Carey, author of Weekend Furniture Facelifts shares five inexpensive ways to revamp a piece of furniture in each room of your house. And they all take less than a day to complete.
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Toweling-Covered Armchair
by Helen Carey
Cozy to sit on and hardwearing too, toweling is also a fantastic fabric for the novice upholsterer ‑- it's stretchy, easy to handle and the pile effectively hides any less-than-perfect beginner's mistakes.
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Toweling-Covered Armchair
Etched Glass Dining Table
Display Shelving Wardrobe
New Doors for Old Cupboards
Excerpted from Weekend Furniture Facelifts by Helen Carey. Photography by Frazer Cunningham. © 2005. Hamlyn, publisher. Used with permission.
