I’ve been painting furniture for couple of years now, and there are some things that I’ve picked up through my experience that I’d like to share with you. There is a lot of furniture available to paint. Beautiful pieces. I have decided that there are also some to just walk away from. Since secondhand furniture…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…