$1 Flea Market Find – Baby Doll Bed

This baby doll bed was speaking to me when I was at the flea market. Over the years I have learned that when junk speaks to me I have to listen or I will regret it forever. Nothing haunts me more than that one thing I didn’t get when I saw it.

My girls are far beyond the age of playing with their American Girl dolls {aff link} so I had a hard time explaining to my husband why I had to have this baby doll bed. I just had a vision of making it “cute” and the price tag on this beat up and well used piece of doll furniture was $1. How could I pass it up for $1? If anything it would make a cute doggy bed for our Dachshund.

I had recently reupholstered and stenciled a desk chair using drop cloth and I had plenty of leftover material to reupholster the baby doll bed.

After my sweet hubby added a layer of batting and reupholstered the baby doll bed I taped off some lines with painters tape and used some of my homemade aqua chalk paint to add some stripes to the drop cloth.

I also used the same aqua chalk paint to cover the baby doll bed frame. I then distressed the frame with sandpaper and used antique wax to add a vintage patina to the bed frame. Lastly, I added some inexpensive glass drawer pulls to each of the four bed posts.

Ironically, when I was all done with this transformation I was invited to a birthday party so this doll bed never became a doggy bed. I love when one of my junkin’ visions comes to life and I can share my creativity with someone else to enjoy. This flea market find is going to make one little birthday girl very happy.