Happy Monday friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. I'm so excited to share this Blue Buffet Makeover with you today AND a generous giveaway sponsored by Dixie Belle Paint Company! I picked this piece up from a young German family in ...
Painting Furniture
The Small Details & Rub’n Buff Magic
Have your friends or colleagues ever gone on-and-on about a product they love? You may have witnessed the impressive results, yet for whatever reason it took you years to try it? I have no excuse or logical explanation for this, but that's exactly ...
A New Twist On Old Crackle Paint Finish
Have you ever had a great idea for a project, but once you finished, it looked and felt WRONG? That's exactly what happened with this tallboy dresser.  Here's a look at the before and my first attempt. In my opinion, the before looks better! My ...
How To Remove Fretwork & RePurpose It!
I'm excited to share today's furniture makeover with you. I took a chance and tried something new - something I've never seen done before - and I LOVE the way it turned out! I can't wait to hear what YOU think! First, let's chat about fretwork. ...
No-Mess-Wet-Distress Painted Furniture
One of the benefits of using chalk paints to restyle furniture is the NO-Mess-Wet-Distess bonus. If you don't have a garage/work area, live in a climate where sanding outside is a no-go (like my -15° Canadian winters!), or have a piece that's too ...
Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue | Before & After
Hi friends! I hope you all had an amazing weekend! Thank you for your kind encouraging comments on Friday's post. You guys are always so supportive and sweet! xo Today is all about painting cheap furniture - ahh, I mean mass-value produced ...
Think Green | 25 Beautiful Furniture Makeovers
Happy Tuesday friends! We had fun with our last Think Pink roundup, so with Spring around the corner, let's Think Green! Today I'm sharing 25 Beautiful Furniture Makeovers created by some amazingly talented furniture painters! Green is one of ...
DIY Faux Barn Wood |Salvaged Spool Table Makeover
True story. Thirteen years ago, when I first started dating MMM, I mentioned my home was filled with junk and thrift finds. I told him this in a lighthearted joking manner, testing the waters - or maybe subconsciously, I was trying to prepare him for ...
Antoinette & Black Wax Table Makeover
Does black wax scare the you-know-what out of you? It can be intimidating, right? It takes some creative-courage to slather black all over a freshly painted piece - especially if your piece is painted in a light color. If you haven't mustered up ...
Pure White Chalk Paint | Buffet Makeover
Hi friends, I hope you're well! Before I get into the little 'accident' I had while painting this piece, I'll quickly share the 411. This French Buffet is painted in Annie Sloan 'Pure White' Chalk Paint. If you're ever looking for a ...
5 Ways To Paint Furniture WITHOUT Sanding!
Ask any professional furniture painter what their least favorite part of restyling is, and they will most likely say SANDING.  It's messy. It's time consuming. It's mindless work. True fact - when I first started salvaging furniture, I cringed at the ...
Favorite Furniture Restyles of 2016
Hello friends! I hope you're enjoying the last weeks of 2016. December has always been my wind down month so I've been relaxing and enjoying time off. I'll officially be back-at-it starting Monday January 2nd. But, in the meantime, as we say goodbye ...
Miss Mustard Seed | Mustard Seed Yellow
Even though yellow is one of my favorite colors, I have a love-hate relationship with yellow paint. Every time I paint with it, something goes wrong. In the case of this tall boy, I pushed out of my comfort zone and overshot. The first mustard color ...
DIY Pottery Barn Knock-Off | 80’s Buffet Restyle
Hello friends! Can you believe it's already November? The weather is starting to cool down here, so I'm taking every opportunity to stay warm in my paint studio. I picked up this 80's buffet from the ReStore and my first thought - was Pottery Barn ...
Painting Velvet w Fabric Medium – Failed!
I debated whether or not to show you this project gone wrong. But when I did some online research, I found a few others bloggers [reference links at the bottom of this post] who've had similar results. So, I decided it was worth sharing how this ...
$100 Fall Giveaway | The Millionaire’s Daughter
I'm so glad you're here!!! I've partnered with The Millionaire's Daughter to bring all my local GTA readers an exciting $100 Fall Giveaway! {More details on how easy it is to enter on Facebook at the end of this post} For those of you who ...
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