If you saw my post last week, of the Antique Ice Chest I restored, you may remember I mentioned this amazing product that I was using for the first time – Hemp Oil, from Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint product range. Hemp oil, along with the rest of the...
Giving your furniture a new lease of life with a splash of paint can be very rewarding. I’ve been painting furniture for a few years now and still remember the feeling of satisfaction when I transformed a pair of glossy pastel blue bedsides into shabby chic...
An Antique Fridge Find When this antique fridge or ice chest came to my workshop, I knew it would be a fun project. Loads of history, character and charm. It seems to have been given a coat of white undercoat sometime in its life, but there’s no other evidence...
Every now and then there’s a piece of furniture that I’ve worked on, finished and set in my display room ready to take to market or sell online, that I keep taking a second look at. Like it just needs something more to give it that unique “take me...
Skye’s Sideboard Inheritance When Skye sent me a picture of her sideboard and asked me if I could give it a makeover, I took up the challenge. This antique piece of furniture was inherited and so she didn’t want to get rid of it, but knew she wanted it...
After much anticipation, ASCP (Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint) is finally in Australia. If you’ve been following my blog or facebook posts, you’ll know that for the last couple of years I’ve been making my own DIY chalk paint to get that chalk paint...