I've been thinking of trying to flip some thrifted furniture and sell it on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist but I'm torn.

I enjoy making over small furniture pieces and flipping them for a little bit of a profit but I hate dealing with people on FB Marketplace. The number of times you have to answer the question "Is this still available," only to be ghosted after that is so annoying, all the scammers wanting to have their brother, friend, co-worker, etc. pick up the item while they pay you now without even seeing the piece, yah right. Not to mention trying to set up a time and decide if you want a bunch of strangers coming to your house or if you want to load up whatever you're selling and meet them someplace... only to be ghosted then too sometimes.

I just don't know if it's worth it.

But I did pick up a cute little vintage side table from a seller on FB Marketplace for $10, and I gave it a makeover. However, now I've decided to keep it... so much for flipping 😂

But let me show you how I transformed it.

Upcycled Vintage Side Table

I did make a video for this makeover. You can see it here:

Here are the listing pictures.

As you can see it was in rough shape. It had lots of gouges and stains on the top, it was missing the door inserts, and the base and doors were plastic.

I think most people would have probably passed it up because of this.

After removing the base and the door, I sanded the whole thing. I concentrated mostly on the top, but I also sanded the sides, the base, and the door.

I found some cane at the thrift store recently and decided to add this to the door inserts which is what I think it originally had.



Here it is with the door reinstalled. It was at this point that I decided I was probably going to keep it 😍