#1 Rule of Thumb for choosing the right paint color (Keep reading and I’ll include #2, #3, #4, and #5) I’ll preface this blogpost by saying if you are someone who likes bright, bold colors on your wall, this tip is NOT for you! But if you like neutral, serene colors, read on! Drumroll please! The color you like will almost always be more…
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I love framed art grouped into 3’s but it can be so expensive to buy, especially when you’re wanting multiples. I was looking at the new Birch Lane catalog this morning and saw this picture on page 30 of the December 2014 catalog. picture taken from www.BirchLane.com Above the banquette there is some lovely framed vintage lemon art. It is…
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This mid-century modern dresser was in great shape and was a very quality piece of furniture. I chose to just give it a crisp, white finish with Sherwin Williams Pure White to mimic the West Elm Mid-century Modern dressers. I added some sleek, chrome pulls to finish updating the look.
I picked up this antique Tiger Oak serpentine dresser to paint from Restore, the Habitat for Humanity store. I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do with this, so I first put on a coat of Pure White by Sherwin Williams. It didn’t look good. There were too many knicks and bruises on this piece of furniture to paint…
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It’s been a few years since I built this bed, but since I’ve started blogging I decided to share some projects that are already completed. This was a big one for me. We decided after having our second child that we needed a King size bed. Our daughter was coming in bed with us almost every night, and we needed…
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In September I made a final push to get all the furniture in our garage painted before cold weather came. The first of these was an oak hutch which I painted Duck Egg blue, specifically Quietude from Sherwin Williams. I painted the inside of the hutch Creamy by Sherwin Williams. I like the contrast this brings. I would have liked…
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Every year I decorate for our church’s Christmas Widow’s luncheon, which the decorations are then used for a dinner our church hosts for a low income apartment complex, the teacher’s holiday luncheon at my daughter’s school, and our Breakfast with Santa event at our church. Needless to say, we get our money’s worth out of these decorations. When researching (browsing…
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I spend a lot of time getting inspiration from Pinterest. At this point, I’ve only painted 9 pieces of furniture. There is so, so much more that I want to do! This table is actually the first thing I started painting. I kept seeing a picture on Pinterest of a pedestal table with blue chairs and I loved it:)….
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This bedroom set was so much fun to paint. I had to do a little repair work from the beginning. Gluing and filling where it was needed, but it didn’t take too much to get her ready to paint. I again painted with SW Proclassic paint in Creamy, distressed with a rotary sander, and glazed with the glaze from…
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The one thing I wanted to do when I started painting furniture was to paint a dresser coral. I had pinned many coral dressers that I just thought were beautiful. So the first dresser I got, I painted coral:). I did have some glitches along the way. The color is Sherwin Williams Charisma. I like to use their…
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This was my first attempt at rescuing an old(er) piece of furniture. This was an Ethan Allen Hutch which a fellow Oregonian didn’t need anymore. I bought her from Craigslist. I knew I wanted to keep the tabletop wood toned, so the first thing I did was sand, sand, sand. Due to the small surface area, it really didn’t take that…
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This was a console table that my cousin and I had bought for our church. It was damaged at Hobby Lobby, so we picked it up, with the intention of paint it. It had some type of leopard thing going on, that I thought was not so appealing, but it was a nice sold piece of furniture. I painted it…
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