I've always loved creating things from other people's trash.

Not necessarily trash such as milk jugs and packing peanuts, although that has happened - But more like items that people are planning to take to the Goodwill or broken pieces that people are trying to offload in their yard sales for $1. Growing up, my dad and granddad were always into thrifting/bargain hunting/picking, so naturally, I became rather fond of it all and begin doing it on my own as a sort of hobby. 

One weekend, during a typical yard sale-ing adventure - I stumbled across these two super retro suitcases, and for $1.50 a piece, I couldn't just leave them there! So I did the next best thing, brought them home and started searching for something to use as legs. As much as I hate Facebook, I must say, I was happy to find a free table and chair set that were perfect leg donors....that sounds a bit morbid. 

After gathering supplies, I went to work!

I started by ripping out the interior as it smelled of moth balls and old lady perfume...not a good combo.

I then cut a piece of plywood to sit inside of the suitcase and act as a base for the legs, much like I did in part 2 of this series. I then cleaned up the inside and used some Modge Podge to glue in strips of an old Charles Dicken's book. Afterwards, I painted the legs a matte white and distressed them a bit to give them that shabby chic look. After all of this "work" I listed it for sale!

You wanna hear the juicy stats?

Amount invested: ~$9 total

Amount sold for: $90 for the pair

BOOM!

Think this sort of thing is difficult? Think again!

Be sure to check out the previous parts to this series 

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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