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By: Abe Abbas

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Repurposing furniture may sound like a complicated process, but it is nothing more than finding completely new uses for an existing piece of furniture. Modify it to suit your needs or preferences if you want - designers do this all the time to create a unique look or emphasize a client's personal style. What's to prevent you from re-purposing your own furniture?

We assign names or labels to every piece of furniture, letting the assigned name determine its function. But a nightstand does not necessarily belong in the bedroom, and if you focus on your needs rather than a piece's traditional function, you could easily find more uses for it. Besides, re-purposing is the best way to establish your very own style.

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Re-purposing furniture lets you give your existing pieces of furniture a new, maybe more exciting life, or buy used furniture and make it new. Let us look at some pieces of furniture that can be re-purposed easily.


Dressers:

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- The easiest piece of furniture to re-purpose is a dresser. You can change the look by painting it, using new hardware, or dressing up the top with a slab of marble or granite, or even tiles.
- Use a dresser in a bathroom for keeping towels and supplies.
- Move it to the kitchen, to store pots and pans, chopping boards, or anything that needs to be stashed away.
- Take the dresser outside. Store your potting supplies in it, and the top can provide a surface for potting plants if the dresser is the right height.


Tables:

 

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- Convert a smaller dining table into a large coffee table by sawing off or changing the legs.
- Leaves from a table can be used as shelves.
- Use doors as table tops.
- Use a tabletop on a wall as a piece of art by painting or distressing the surface.


TV Armoires:

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TV armoires have fallen out of favor with the advent of flat screen TVs, but you can easily put them to other uses.

- Turn an armoire into toy storage for children.
- Change the doors, add a little glass in the back and you have a new wine cabinet.
- Use it as a linen cabinet.
- Turn an armoire into a home office center. It has enough room to hold your peripherals, printer paper and other office supplies.


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