I’ve been painting furniture for couple of years now, and there are some things that I’ve picked up through my experience that I’d like to share with you. There is a lot of furniture available to paint. Beautiful pieces. I have decided that there are also some to just walk away from. Since secondhand furniture…
I had so much fun putting together this inspiration board. It was done for a dear friend. She already had a great start for a mid-century meets rustic living room with the couch, rug, deer head, framed art in the lower left, and chairs in the lower right. I scoured the online sites of her…
I picked up this antique Tiger Oak serpentine dresser to paint from Restore, the Habitat for Humanity store. I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do with this, so I first put on a coat of Pure White by Sherwin Williams. It didn’t look good. There were too many knicks and bruises on this…
This bedroom set was so much fun to paint. I had to do a little repair work from the beginning. Gluing and filling where it was needed, but it didn’t take too much to get her ready to paint. I again painted with SW Proclassic paint in Creamy, distressed with a rotary sander, and…
The one thing I wanted to do when I started painting furniture was to paint a dresser coral. I had pinned many coral dressers that I just thought were beautiful. So the first dresser I got, I painted coral:). I did have some glitches along the way. The color is Sherwin Williams Charisma….
In September I made a final push to get all the furniture in our garage painted before cold weather came. The first of these was an oak hutch which I painted Duck Egg blue, specifically Quietude from Sherwin Williams. I painted the inside of the hutch Creamy by Sherwin Williams. I like the contrast this…
