The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Catch up on the renovation progress! Master Plans / Stage 1 / Stage 2-3 / Stage 4 / Stage 5 / Stage 7 Hello peeps! Our master bedroom is really beginning to take shape now with a paint color on the walls other than orange and yellow! Here’s a quick before of the bedroom with the drywall up and the former orange walls: […]
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 […]
Hi all! Today’s makeover was my mom’s low hutch (a.k.a. “credenza” to make it sound fancier) that she keeps in her dining room. It was stained a very red-ish-brown back-in-the-day, and she wanted to make it pretty again. Using glaze, it came back to life! Also in her dining room is a buffet table, and the […]
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 […]
On the last post having to do with my first attempt at trying milk paint to paint a piece of furniture, this is where we left off: As expected, milk paint is unlike anything I’ve used before, but so far it looks like it’s coming along ok. I’m putting another coat or two on it […]
