The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Although white and gray sofas have been trending in the last few years, a brown sofa is also a nice neutral color that you can work with to create just about any color scheme. So even if such a sofa may feel like a dark hole that dictates everything else in the room, it is […]
Though my calendar tells me that Spring is right around the corner, it’s a different scene outside my window with snow, ice, and below-freezing temperatures for the last 2+ months. Not to mention snowmageddon is happening right now. Here’s how our roads looked a few hours ago: It’s still snowing, so a few inches more […]
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 […]
