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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
