Milk Paint 101 with an IKEA Pine Box (Knagglig) ** I featured this IKEA Pine Box project during a LIVE over on Hometalk’s Facebook page. The video is below. In this IKEA Pine Box tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Create a stain using Miss Mustard Seed’s...
Removing the Substrate Removing Substrate (an Existing Finish) on your Antique Pieces Welcome to Part 2 of our Wood Finishes series (Removing the Substrate) with special guest, Julie Henderson from Chalk n Trees. Thanks Julie! If you missed Part 1, we talked about...
All About Wood Finishes In Wood Finishes Part 1, I’m really excited to bring you the first in a series about wood finishes with special guest, Julie Henderson, from Chalk n Trees. Julie is a busy mother of two, and has a passion for restoring and refinishing...
How to Paint Like a Pro! Last week I had the opportunity to go Live on one of Facebook’s fastest growing DIY Furniture Painting Groups showing everyone how to create a driftwood effect! As the group grew in numbers, I was approached by Admins of the group to see...
Tutorials – How do you learn best? We’ll get to the 8 tutorials in just a minute, but first, did you know that when it comes to learning how to do things, we each have different learning styles? For me, I love to watch videos and read blog posts about DIY...
My Story This 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...
