diy: step-by-step guide to whitewashing furniture
Lately, I’ve gotten quite a few emails asking for help creating the whitewashed finish I wrote about last year, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to post a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in trying it! Whitewashing is a simple technique of watering down white paint and literally washing it over a…
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go with the gray
Ever since posting this gray pedestal table, I’ve received a few requests to replicate the finish-most recently for this curvy console table. It had been painted a number of times, but it’s made out of some weird synthetic material so stripping it was out of the question and sanding only revealed more cracked layers. So,…
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whitewashed table
Last year, I posted about how to get a cerused oak or “limed” finish, as it’s more popularly referred to. It’s a beautiful way to add a weathered, aged look to a piece of furniture while still preserving the integrity of the wood. It’s one of my favorite ways to transform furniture, so when a…
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distressed cabinet
Sometimes, all a piece of furniture needs is a coat of paint, some glaze and a little sanding to give it new life, so that’s exactly what I did to this cabinet. It’s pretty heavy and I love the shutter doors, but even though the wood was in great shape, it had an orange tint…
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diy: painting stripes
I’m working on a nursery for a first-time mommy-to-be, who has a small niche off her master bedroom. The room is small-10 feet by 10 feet-and so, instead of cramming a bunch of small pieces of furniture and accessories everywhere, I started by adding some visual interest to draw the eye upward and painted stripes…
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french gray
One of my absolute favorite things about refinishing furniture is transforming something older, perhaps a little unloved, into something beautiful and timeless. While the prep work is never fun, it’s worth the time, effort and elbow grease, to give an old, ugly piece new life. This oak dining table was no exception. When I first…
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DIY: repainting barstools
These stools have been sitting in my kitchen for the last month or so, waiting for me to find the time to bring them up to speed, paint-wise, with the rest of our home. I am so grateful that business is booming that I don’t mind that provisions to my own home have taken a…
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cerused oak
Taking a piece of furniture that has seen better days and transforming it into something completely different and beautiful is one of my favorite, most satisfying parts of my job. Weathered, whitewashed wood, similar to the pedestal table I refinished a while back, is a trend that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, and it will…
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DIY: distressed baby letters
This past weekend we threw a shower in honor of my best friend, who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her first baby in eight weeks. I wanted to make something to sit on the table with the invitation that could also be used in the nursery. Since the parents-to-be are not finding out the sex of…
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DIY: “zinc” mirror
There’s something about crusty old zinc mirrors that stop me in my tracks. The price tag, on the other hand, does not. So I decided to try my hand at reinventing a wooden mirror I got at World Market a few years ago (to sit on my fireplace just until my wooden sunburst mirror from…
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