Hustles
Kara Ward flipped old furniture into a home business
Kara Ward refinished a bedroom set with leftover paint in 2020. She tells Upflip the flips helped the family work through about $60,000 in bills.
Kara Ward's furniture work started as a way through a bad year, not a brand. In 2020 her husband lost an events job just after they bought a house.
Medical bills and two kids made the month tight. During lockdown they painted their own bedroom furniture with leftover wall paint and lessons from videos, then posted photos with no plan.
Friends asked her to do their pieces. Thrift and marketplace finds turned into five or six flips a week. She says the work helped them deal with about $60,000 in debt.
Paint before a studio
The Upflip episode is about that first bedroom set and the messages that followed. She talks through a week of pickups, paint and resale from home.
The debt figure is hers. The business is a couple refinishing furniture because the events paycheck stopped.
