What is Bleed Through? If you’ve been painting furniture for a while, you may have come across “bleed through” – the problem of the underlying stain or pigment of the stained wood, bleeding through the paint you have just coated your lovely...
I feel like a total noob (as my teens would say) to admit to you that I actually had to Google “Hamptons Style” to see exactly what that meant. That was part of the brief my client gave me for restoring this huge rustic and sturdy table. He wanted a...
This Tiny Stool is the smallest I think I’ve ever seen! This tiny stool followed me home for a makeover last week and here’s what I did. The lovely rose tapestry wasn’t my style and was a bit grimey anyway, so I re-covered the seat. Stencilled Fabric...
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...
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...
I attempted my very first Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk paint project a few weeks ago. I had so much fun mixing and painting and was so excited to even have the paint as it is not yet available in Australia. But thanks to my lovely sister who happened to visit my...
