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…
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….
This was my first attempt at rescuing an old(er) piece of furniture. This was an Ethan Allen Hutch which a fellow Oregonian didn’t need anymore. I bought her from Craigslist. I knew I wanted to keep the tabletop wood toned, so the first thing I did was sand, sand, sand. Due to the small surface area,…
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…
This was a console table that my cousin and I had bought for our church. It was damaged at Hobby Lobby, so we picked it up, with the intention of paint it. It had some type of leopard thing going on, that I thought was not so appealing, but it was a nice sold piece…
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…
