The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Adding a glaze to a piece you are working on is a very quick and easy way to get more of an antiqued effect. When painting furniture I’m always inspired by Restoration Hardware, and this gray dresser was no exception. I was digging RH’s “antiqued graphite” color, but wanted to take the antiqued wood “look” a […]
Hello, peeps! Welcome to another episode of “painting furniture for my mom“. ;-) This vintage secretary desk used to be my grandmother’s (or my Mommom as we called her) and now my mom has it in her guest room. The piece has something unique I haven’t seen before with secretary desks; open side shelving. In […]
Happy day! I get to finally show y’all how the low dresser I’ve been working on came out in my latest painted makeover! I bought this piece as part of a bedroom set at an estate auction and the very next day I came down with a bad case of the flu. Since then I’ve […]
Hullo! How y’all doing this fine Thursday? It’s been a weird week here with the much-dramatized winter storm turning out to be a dud, and then busy looking at houses (more on that later in the post). Project-wise, bit-by-bit the low dresser that I started painting is coming along nicely! I’m using General Finishes “Coastal […]
A lot of you who visit this blog seem to enjoy DIY and painting furniture (you’re my kind of people!) – some of my most popular furniture painting posts are the ones about painting with milk paint and gold-dipping. One thing that I’ve realized is missing from the equation in my posts though is the […]
