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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
