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What Treasures Have You Found While Painting Antique Furniture?

Antique Finds It’s always fun when you find hidden treasures in vintage…

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DIY Hints & Tips/ Furniture Makeovers/ Furniture Restoration & Makeovers/ Fusion Mineral Paint/ Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Products/ Tutorial

Amazing Farmhouse Finish to Try Right Now using Milk Paint over SFO!

A Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint Experiment for a Farmhouse Finish To…

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Antique Finds/ Furniture Makeovers/ Furniture Restoration & Makeovers/ Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Products

Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and a Silky Oak Dresser in a Time Lapse Video

A Solid Silky Oak Australian Antique Dresser This silky oak dresser came…

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Antique Finds/ Style & Decor

Welcome these Beautiful Year Round Wreaths to your home this Spring!

Preserved Boxwood Wreaths are in Australia and you can get them HERE!…

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Brushes/ DIY Hints & Tips

5 Tips to Help Your Cling On & Staalmeester Brushes Last Longer.

Quality Brushes – essential tools for your Furniture Painting Kit! There’s nothing…

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Antique Finds/ My Story/ Style & Decor

Visiting Paris – Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower

Our 25th Anniversary Surprise Vacation – Part 5 Included in this post:…

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DIY Hints & Tips/ Furniture Makeovers/ Fusion Mineral Paint/ Tutorial

Learn when you may need Fusion’s Ultra Grip before painting.

Fusion Mineral Paint’s Ultra Grip – Is it necessary? In this post,…

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5 Ways to Paint A Brick Wall

So You Want to Paint a Brick Wall? I often get asked…

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DIY Hints & Tips/ Furniture Makeovers/ Furniture Restoration & Makeovers/ Fusion Mineral Paint/ Tutorial

Midnight Blue Dresser Drawer Set & Leather Handle Swoon

Before Makeover – Decisions to Make This large dresser drawer set (some…

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Antique Finds/ Furniture Makeovers/ Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Products

Milk Painted Rattan Back Chairs

Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint colour – Mora I don’t even remember…

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What Treasures Have You Found While Painting Antique Furniture?
Antique Finds It’s always fun when you find hidden treasures in vintage or antique furniture when you go to clean them up and paint…
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Amazing Farmhouse Finish to Try Right Now using Milk Paint over SFO!
A Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint Experiment for a Farmhouse Finish To create this Farmhouse Finish, I wanted to try using the new Stain…
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Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and a Silky Oak Dresser in a Time Lapse Video
A Solid Silky Oak Australian Antique Dresser This silky oak dresser came to me via a lady on the Gold Coast who wanted to…
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Welcome these Beautiful Year Round Wreaths to your home this Spring!
Preserved Boxwood Wreaths are in Australia and you can get them HERE! I am so excited to announce that we have teamed up with…
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5 Tips to Help Your Cling On & Staalmeester Brushes Last Longer.
Quality Brushes – essential tools for your Furniture Painting Kit! There’s nothing like great quality brushes to get the best finishes on your painted…
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Visiting Paris – Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower
Our 25th Anniversary Surprise Vacation – Part 5 Included in this post: Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Coeur Basilica, Notré Dame, and Arc du Triomph! Continuing our…
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Learn when you may need Fusion’s Ultra Grip before painting.
Fusion Mineral Paint’s Ultra Grip – Is it necessary? In this post, we’re doing to discuss the use of Ultra Grip, including a few…
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5 Ways to Paint A Brick Wall
So You Want to Paint a Brick Wall? I often get asked about how to paint a brick wall after people see our entry…
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Midnight Blue Dresser Drawer Set & Leather Handle Swoon
Before Makeover – Decisions to Make This large dresser drawer set (some might consider it a side-board) was destined to be painted, but I…
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Milk Painted Rattan Back Chairs
Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint colour – Mora I don’t even remember where I picked up these rattan back chairs along my furniture collecting…
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Hi, I’m Sharon – a furniture painter & restorer from Australia, who loves to up-cycle and repurpose old neglected pieces and bring them back to life again. My blog was created for thrifty DIYers and home renovators to encourage them to make transformations in their own homes, with educational tutorials, tips and inspirational makeovers. As a mother of four teens, and wife to a busy self-employed audio/video guy, life can be crazy at times, so painting furniture is a bit like therapy for me! My blog began out of a love for taking things (mostly furniture) that have been left for ruins, bound for the dump, kicked to the curb – and giving them a new lease of life. There’s such great satisfaction in being able to bring something out of the storage shed, create a new look, and give it a place of honour in the home again. You’ll be surprised what could be hiding in your house gathering dust, that could be given a completely new lease of life! Join me as we learn together. There are such a variety of ways of making old things become new again!