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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Slipper Chair Makeover Part II

Finally got the photos of the poor little chair, it has been stripped, all paint stripper removed, and sanded with a medium grade steel wool. Unfortunately it is not stable, I’m going to have to either pull it apart and work out how to fix it, or get the antique restorer guy over the road [...]

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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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