This repurpose is not exactly paint related but nevertheless it is repurposing at it’s best.

What started out several (lots of ) years ago as a way for me to dry my clothes on hangers, making it easier once I got to the ironing side of things. Continue reading →

This old sewing cabinet has been sitting in my shed for about 30 years.  It did provide me before that with a place to sew and store my sewing needs, well not all of them but the essentials.

The top is veneer and was damaged, not as bad as that looks but as I was trying to fix it, the veneer kept lifting, so it had to come off. Continue reading →

There are so many of these pine hutches, cabinets whatever you want to  call them. all varying shades of ‘pine’.

The beauty of these pieces of furniture is once they are chalk style painted they take on a new life.

I used a white matte water base acrylic paint and used the calcium carbonate recipe. Continue reading →

In the antique world there are many marriages.  Not the husband & wife kind more the pieces of furniture marrying kind.  Often times these look well matched, like many human marriages but many times they look like a miss-match. Continue reading →

I seem to be one of those impatient people when I decide I want something especially when I am restoring, changing, repurposing.  This happens when I want to redecorate a room or even just give a room a big clean.  What I mean by a big clean is – pull all the furniture out and start with windows and walls, need not be repainting just cleaning down.  Or maybe I Continue reading →

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