I have been painting furniture for many years and white has always been the most popular color. A majority of the work I do for clients, still to this day, involves painting furniture white. I am so sick of white!! Don’t get me wrong, white furniture is beautiful, but as an artist I crave color. [...]

This is one of my most recent projects. I’ve got a garage full of furniture all ready to be painted and I’m just dying to get to it! To bad it’s raining, so I’m at a stand still. I’ve got several sewing projects keeping me occupied instead. I’m working on creating six cushions for a [...]

In a previous post titled, dresser with a broken leg, I described in detail how my mom and I repaired the broken leg of this dresser. It also had a broken drawer that we fixed, which I will share in a future post, so stay tuned. Today I will take you step by step [...]

I picked up this dresser for only $15!!! The leg was shattered, one of the drawers was completely broken and not usable as is, and it was missing a mirror that once was mounted on the top. I come from a pretty handy family. Between my mom, dad, and grandparents I knew someone would come up [...]

I really love the look created by rubbing wax on a piece of furniture before painting it. It really gives painted furniture that authentically old, shabby appearance. Not to mention the fact that it cuts down the time spent distressing, rather than spending countless hours (it never really takes that long, that’s a big exaggeration) sanding a piece to give it [...]