When you rent a furnished apartment, you have a great advantage: you don't have to buy anything, and also, you move in with a bunch of boxes and a few suitcases. Also, if it's the first home you're about to share with someone... let's put it this way: it's a smaller risk. If things don't work out, you fill your suitcases and you're gone.
But there is the bad side of it. What to do with the pieces you don't need? What do you do with those pieces the owner is too attached to for throwing away, but not that much to take home with them? Well, we were lucky (or maybe it was the destiny) the apartment had exactly what we needed, and lacked exactly the pieces we had. So it was a perfect deal for us. Except for... grandma's trunk! The one that hasn't been opened in a decade, full of dead bugs, dust, and smelling like naphthalene balls from those days that blankets were actually made of real wool.
It was also placed in a very bad spot, and we couldn't figure out where to put it. On the other hand, we could use a second working area at the kitchen. The two ideas merged together in my brain, and this is what happened:
We moved it into the kitchen, and it fitted perfectly! So I started to fix it. First, I cut the paper edges that were starting to fold. Then I painted it all white, and it turned out great!
You can still see the texture... and it's been a great place to store power tools and remains of paint, brushes, that kind of stuff.
Here are some other owner's pieces makeover:
Chairs
Sofa
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