Happy Tuesday Everyone! After cleaning out my drawers, I was left with a handful of old socks that had lost their elasticity. I was about to throw them in the trash when I remembered a Martha Stewart Tutorial. Martha used an old sock to ...
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Quick-Tip-Tuesday ~ The Best Roller For Painting Furniture …And 9 Helpful Tips
After posting my MCM Buffet, (which sold to a wonderful couple from the UK yesterday) I recieved an email asking me what type of roller is best for painiting furniture. First off, I don't often use rollers to restyle my furniture. A regular ol' ...
Quick-Tip-Tuesday ~ Tools For Taping Off Small Details
Taping off a large straight edge is easy. But I find, when painting my furniture, taping off the small details, grooves, nooks and crannies is not quite as simple. I'm working on this Mid-Century-Modern (MCM) Buffet and it's a perfect example. Do ...
Quick-Tip-Tuesday ~ A Screwy One!
Hello... so glad you're here! For today's Q-T-T, I'll show you how I cut knob/pull machine screws to fit any type of hardware in every type of furniture... quickly and easily! If you paint and restyle a lot of furniture, you've probably run ...
The Glazed Deilcraft Occasional Table… and a Birthday Celebration!
I was going to write an entire tutorial on "How I Glaze My Furniture" but instead I've decided to take it easy. No long tutorial. No fancy staging. Just a charming painted and glazed Deilcraft Occasional Table. This table was the perfect small ...
Past Meets Present Trend: Replace Glass with Chicken Wire The Safe Way!
The most common use for chicken wire is for making chicken coops. But did you know, in the past, chicken wire was often used on furniture? In the good ol' days, before modern day food storage and refrigeration, poultry netting was commonly used on ...
Quick-Tip-Tuesday: How To Remove Paint From Glass… The Fast and Easy Way
I prefer to remove glass before painting. But lets face it, sometimes removing the glass can take up precious time. When it seems faster and easier to paint over it, I DO!... and then I worry about the clean-up afterwards. When I'm left with ...
Shopping Tools and Holding My Ground
Have you ever been shopping with someone who's trying their very best to convince you that what you want is not as good as what they want you to want? Okay, a little confusing but let me backtrack to explain... When I started this furniture ...