How to Make a Profit Selling Repurposed Furniture

Pricing your furniture for sale can be a difficult decision. When you put your blood, sweat, and tears into making it perfect, you end up becoming emotionally attached to the piece. I get it. I’ve been there. So how do you figure out what it’s worth?

What Is Your Worth

The prices on the charts are the MINIMUM prices you should charge for a piece. Because every piece is uniquely different there is no suggested top end. You need to test your market.

The best advice I can give you is, to make sure you don’t overpay for the piece of furniture. Remember that you have to add in time and cost of supplies you put into it.

So, the first thing you should do is figure out how much you want to make an hour, how long it’s going to take to paint it, and an approximate cost for supplies before you pay for the piece of furniture.

The Break Down

For example: if you know that the average sale price for a dresser is $350, then work backward. $50 supplies + $100 for dresser= $150. If your hourly rate is $50 then you need to finish this project in 2 hours to make it profitable.

The key to getting more for your furniture piece is to paint to make it unique and different.

Add a stencil design,

add decorative hardware,

create a blending technique

or add an extra touch.

This price list is just an example of what similar pieces have sold for. Depending on where you live, it may vary.

There you go! These are my tips on how you can easily price your furniture for sale so you can put some money in your pocket.

You can download the entire cheat sheet in PDF form here

Check out my YouTube channel for step-by-step furniture repurposing videos.

P.S. If you’re ready to turn your passion into a paycheck and struggle with how to use social media and tech to grow your business?  Join my monthly FB group Empowering Women. I’ll show you the shortcuts.

Hope this was helpful. I look forward to seeing you in the group.

Blessings

Cheryl