The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
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 […]
Somewhere in-between making xmas gifts, overall holiday craziness, and having a blessed warm day in the 40’s (Fahrenheit) to break up our cold snap, I managed to eek out this dainty ‘lil side table I’d found to pair with the gold dipped table I’d already made-over. Here’s the table on the day I picked it up: […]
Yikes. It’s been crazier than usual this week: holidays, painting some new furniture, trying to buy a house… Oh yeah. I guess I haven’t told y’all. But first, more on the table. A gal who is in the process of furnishing her apartment saw and loved the gold-dipped side table I did, and requested if I […]
To distress furniture, all you need are a few common tools and a water-based paint such as my preferred choice, milk paint. Milk paint is a low VOC water-based paint that requires no sanding, stripping or priming prep work, allowing for you to immediately start painting! I had a small entry table waiting in the […]
When it has come to furnishing our house, our bedroom has been last on our list of rooms. We didn’t have anything but our 2 dressers and mattress when we started our bedroom, however I found a random side table in the attic and brought it down to the bedroom the first day we moved. […]
