Distressed Tallboy Dresser

Here is a pic of the top of my tallboy in my bedroom, I also painted the wardrobe standing next to it. As you can hopefully see, I used the ‘aged’ technique on it the same as I did to the kitchen sideboard. It takes the starkness out of the look, stopping it from screaming [...]

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Crackle Cutlery Tray

Would you believe you can buy paint products to give the aged and distressed look of paint over a very long time?! Now they come in cans! So with a pine cutlery tray, I sprayed the base color, a dark brown. Once that dried I applied the top coat which crackles (shrinks on the top [...]

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Slipper Chair gets an extreme makeover!

I have this little chair I picked up from Ebay. Poor little boudoir chair. Too many coats of paint had obscured the carving work a tad. Yesterday I spent 4 solid hours using paint stripper, a scraper and wire brushes to get rid of all that paint! Today I cleaned all the stripper off it, [...]

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