The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
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 […]
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 […]
Early last week before I got hit with the plague, I went to a multi-estate auction to find some new pieces to makeover…and oh man, that place tempted me with so much awesome that it’s a wonder I was able to keep to my plan of what to buy and came out of there alive! […]
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 […]
You’ve gotta love it when you decide on a whim to go check out Goodwill and find something that you’ve been looking for. You walk in, your eyes land on it and it’s love at first sight…and then you find yourself hugging it fiercely like a lion protects its kill when you discover the phenomenal […]
