furniture

A friend recently picked this bed frame up and asked me to paint it cream with some of the original gold color peaking thru.It has some gorgeous details!I gave it the "super-professional" treatment of painting it in the front yard up against a tree. Hey.... a painters gotta do what…

You all know my husband feeds my furniture addiction. A few weeks ago, he called to tell me he found this solid wood end table/bookcase in someone's bulky item pickup.It's in pretty sad shape.And after Beth at Stories of A to Z has been posting about getting bed bugs from…

So I went garage saling last weekend with 2/3 of my kiddos.Ava scored some princess shoes, a pool ring and some "2009" sunglasses. When I say "Ava scored".... I mean "it was going home with us 'cuz Ava refused to take any of it off".Look at that girl... garage saling…

I had a client purchase 2 of these end tables off of Craigslist. Seriously....what did we do before Craigslist?She wanted them to match her coffee table which is black and distressed on the bottom and stained with some "worm holes" on the top.First, they had to be cleaned. They didn't…

A few months ago, a client asked me to paint this jewelry chest that she had stored in her garage for years.She said I could whatever I wanted, but to keep it cream colored.So I primed...Crackled....Glazed and highlighted all of the edges.I kept the original hardware on and just toned…

Don't hate me if I tell you about the deal I got when out garage saling last weekend.It was as if the Heaven's parted......and angels sang......and a ray of light shown on one driveway in particular.It was the driveway of a local celebrity. Ok, maybe not a celebrity.... but a…