The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
It’s hard to get good paint options, especially when you want low-VOC paint that truly is and not simply claiming to be. Up until now our only local paint stores have been Sherwin Williams, Lowes, and Home Depot. As far as our living room goes…they haven’t served us well. (you can review our two previous attempts at […]
Have you ever gotten to a point where you’ve just had enough with how bad something looks in your house that you one day decide “screw research or planning”, brandish your paint brush and tools and tackle it? That’s what just happened when I declared war on our faux brick chimney. It’s actually where the […]
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 […]
I’ve been working on a cute side table that had a great, classy shape, but was looking a bit miserable. Now here she is in a beautiful gold dipped and creamy white makeover! Miss sophisticated side table is looking like a whole new fair lady who went from the streets to now speaking in a […]
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 […]
