Creative Furniture Upcycling for Beginners

Breathe new life into old furniture and design unique pieces that reflect your personal style using innovative upcycling techniques

• Introduction
• Basic Materials
• Preparing Your Piece of Furniture
• Selling Your Furniture
• Final project

Upcycling is an opportunity to give a piece of furniture a second chance and live more sustainably. Furniture artist and upcycler Joanne Condon believes you can create art from forgotten furniture. That’s what she does via her furniture business, which has led her to win multiple awards and publish her own book about upcycling.

In this course, Joanne takes you step-by-step through the process of restoring a pre-loved piece of furniture through DIY techniques, from choosing the right piece to using color, texture, and pattern to breathe new life into it. Are you ready to design and create unique pieces of furniture that reflect your personality?

• About Me
• Influences
• Tools and Materials
• Experimenting Techniques
• Mood Boards
• Colour Combinations
• Sketching Process
• How to Choose the Furniture
• Preparing the Piece
• Priming
• Painting
• Painting Your Final Designs
• Final Touches 1
• Final Touches 2
• How to Promote and Sell Your Work
• Furniture Upcycling/Hacking