A full-time furniture flipper has told how spends as little as £10 upcycling strangers’ unwanted junk - and has made over £100K by re-selling them.
Lottie Naylor, 24, learned her trade at age 13 when she “started painting furniture for herself” and making money.
And over the last six months, people have sought her out on social media, asking for “tips and tricks” on how she nabs deals online - and other freebies on Facebook Marketplace.
By “repairing and polishing” the items, she then sells them as “decorative vintage homeware pieces”, pricing them from £100 to £350 each.
Lottie Naylor, 24, learned her trade at age 13 when she “started painting furniture for herself” and making money.
And over the last six months, people have sought her out on social media, asking for “tips and tricks” on how she nabs deals online - and other freebies on Facebook Marketplace.
By “repairing and polishing” the items, she then sells them as “decorative vintage homeware pieces”, pricing them from £100 to £350 each.
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00:00And that's a myth actually, there are some who are like that.
00:07See how I transformed this bedside I got for free off Marketplace.
00:11There's a lot of bedsides like this that people have got up for free and they still don't sell,
00:15so I wanted to try and find a way that I could make profit from it.
00:18So I picked up this one that was only down the road from me and I just started prepping it.
00:23I started by taking off the handles and these were a bit of a nightmare so I just had to get
00:27them out with some pliers. I am going to reuse these handles so I didn't fill in the holes
00:32and then I'm straight on to sanding. Because it was only wax pine it sanded up really easily
00:37and then I was straight on to cleaning. The last bit of the prep work is just the masking
00:41tape on the edge of the drawers and then I'm using this gorgeous dusky pink from French
00:46Cheek and I'm just painting the whole of the bedside in this colour. For a light colour this
00:52was really good coverage and it only needed two coats and also here I'm just using my favourite
00:57brushes and they're by Harris and they just stopped me from getting any brush marks in my
01:02paintwork. As soon as that first coat was done I'm just straight on to the second and look how
01:07good it's looking already. Now although it looks cute already I am going to add more detail.
01:12This is a bone inlay style stencil and I'm just using the colour Whistle by French Cheek as well
01:18and it's a whitey grey to create this design. You can use a stencil brush for this but I am
01:23actually just using a smaller brush and it is working just as well and with this I'm just
01:28actually picking a stencil that fits in what place. I haven't actually designed this before
01:32I'm doing it. Now I'm just sorting out the handles I'm just painting them the same colour as the pink
01:38and then as soon as they're dry I'm just putting them straight back on again. This is for sale on
01:43my website for £80 and delivery for a single bedside like this is only £20 so for £100 you
01:50can get one of my hand-painted bedsides and look how cute it's turned out. Follow us for more!
01:56See how I transformed this chest of drawers I got for free off Marketplace into £150.
02:01I just started by scuff sanding. This piece is pine so it's really easy to sand and then I'm
02:06straight on to masking taping. I'm just giving this piece a complete clean just to get rid of
02:11all the dust and dirt, no one wants that in their painted furniture. I'm using French
02:15Cheeks Steaming Green and it's a really popular colour for me. This paint has really good coverage
02:20and it only takes two coats. Also I didn't have a lot of paint left but because it is such good
02:26coverage I managed to still get this whole chest of drawers out of a quarter of a tin. I love
02:31upcycling this pine furniture because it is just so easy and it sands really well. It was drying
02:37so quickly because of how hot it was today so I was straight on to the second coat and then this
02:42top was quite marked so I did try and sand it and it did come up nicely but there was still a couple
02:47of marks I wasn't really happy with and for this piece I decided to sand the sides as well. I had
02:53to hand sand these side bits just because I couldn't get all of it with the sander. Because
02:58I wasn't happy with the marks I did decide to do a white wash. This I think works best with pine
03:03furniture and I'm just using French Cheeks Whistle which is like a whitey grey. I have to say
03:09I am not great at white washing but it did turn out alright. So once I was happy with the finish
03:14it was just on to putting handles on and I'm using these bronzed cup handles and then taking off the
03:20masking tape and there we go it's all done. I do these sort of projects every day so if you like
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