19 Ways to Repurpose Furniture That’ll Save a Stack of Cash

That 1970s lemon yellow dresser you hauled out of your mum’s house simply won’t cut it when it comes to creating a cute room for your little princess. This repurposed furniture, however, just might!

Before you rush out and buy a roomful of brand new furniture for your child’s space, check out the possibilities that refinishing, refurbishing and re-creating offer!

These furniture hacks are inspirational tricks that will completely change the way you look at decorating your kiddo’s kingdom.

1. Make a window seat bench from a simple shelving unit. 
2. Have an old TV unit? Even if it’s truly tasteless, you can still create a totally custom play kitchen
3. Need a way to display those absolutely adorable baby pics? Turn an old door into a photo display centre and the result is pretty stunning! 
4. Your toddler no longer needs her cot. Now what? Transform it into a desk and craft station.
5. Convert an old desk into a corkboard-topped desk. 
6. Use an old entertainment centre for a princess dress-up station.
7. It used to be a bookcase, and now it’s a sand pit!
8. Turn a desk into a neat bedside chest. 
9. Reuse that cot and turn it into a little kid’s library by upcycling the panels into a book rack. 
10. If you’re looking to make that old cot into something much more useful, another option is turning your cot into a reading chair.
11. You could always turn this dresser mirror into a crafty chalkboard. 
12. Take an old end table, cut it in half and instantly create a bunch of bookshelves.
13. Turn an old door into a repurposed bookshelf with awesome detail.
14. Upcycle old shutters into a clip-on wall display (for all of those little notes, homework papers and odds and ends). 
15. The old-turned-new bathtub isn’t for cleaning up. It’s now a bathtub sofa for sitting! 
16. Make a clever chalkboard shelving unit from a simple bathroom cabinet. 
17. Not into a total take-apart and re-do? If carpentry isn’t in your skill set, how about this map/chalkboard dresser upcycle?
18. Combine two Ikea pieces to make a mobile kids’ book storage centre. 
19. Transform this old cable spool into a super-cool spool bookcase.