Up-cycling is always a great, budget friendly solution to changing up your furniture. An Up-cycle Challenge was put out by Essential Stencil (for which I am an ambassador), and I was keen to find something from around our house to upcycle and join in the fun. I love...
Have you created a glaze finish over chalk paint? In looking at how to create a glazed finish over chalk type paint, I’ve found this method I show here, the best, in my opinion. It can be different adding glaze to a chalk paint (porous finish) than it is to a...
If this furniture could speak… This vintage fridge/cooler has seen a lot of days and I wonder when I get things like this, about their original history. The families they’ve served, the rooms they’ve been in and the purposes they’ve been given....
I love refinishing silky oak pieces. This silky oak sideboard belonged to someone who had plans to refinish it herself, but along with a few other items, she decided to move it along to someone who might like to do it up. That’s me! It needed a few repairs, and...
From Golden Pine Chipped Varnish, to Modern Wash & Paint Combo Cotswold Green Bedside drawer beginnings … These bedside tables had served a great purpose for many years, when I received them from a friend who was getting rid of furniture recently. I would...
Updating our bedroom suite was a goal I was determined to achieve when we first started building our new home a year and a half ago. We had downsized from our home of 18 years and this was to be the very first time we had built new. Between selling and the time the...
