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🛋 What to do with abandoned furniture in France?

⚠️ You can’t just leave bulky furniture on the street. Here are some options:
• 🗓 Encombrants – book a pickup through the town hall.
• 🏘 Déchetterie – drop-off points where you can bring furniture yourself.
• ♻️ Emmaüs, Ressourceries – associations that gladly accept even old or damaged pieces.

✨ I truly hope that, over time, people will stop simply throwing away furniture. Very often, these pieces are in great condition: not broken, needing only minimal repair.

🎁 Instead of leaving them on the street:
• donate them to associations,
• give them away for free to someone in need,
• or pass them on to decorators like me 🖌 — to give them a second life.

🎨 Upcycling and redesign are ways to turn simple pieces into something unique, affordable, and sometimes even incredibly stylish.

🌿 For me, it’s not only about upcycling. It’s also about:
👉 decorating and refreshing furniture,
👉 creating unique pieces for different needs,
👉 mixing “old and new” in modern interiors,
👉 design and style that make a space special.

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💬 What are your thoughts on this kind of furniture?

🪄 Transformation of an old table 🪄

I found this wooden table at Emmaüs — it wasn’t in great condition, but I could see its potential ✨
If you swipe to the last photo, you’ll see what it looked like in the beginning.

For the makeover I used primer and paint from Benjamin Moore Advance . I love how it turned out — it really feels like the table got a second life 🤍

In the next posts I’ll show you the drawers — they were the most stained and needed extra work 🙈

What do you think of this transformation?