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An interior designer spends $50 to update her kitchen table—look at how amazing it is now! - Wow! This transformation is amazing! Farm Tables and Farmhouse Decor are EVERYWHERE! This DIY Farm Table is super simple to tackle and create and will save you

Oh goodness, this dining room is taking forever to finish! I’ve been working on it for the past several months as money and time have allowed, and we’re definitely in the home stretch, …

I think I was one of the last people on earth to try Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. I used it on a free {if somewhat scratched-up and damaged} table, and I'm so glad…

Get inspired by rustic wood centerpieces that you can use to decorate your dining room table, a bench by the window, or even a wedding table centerpiece. Rustic wood makes these natural centerpieces fit in with many home decor settings. Add Clear or Chalk painted Mason jars to a wood planter and then fill the […]

Need some new home decor and furniture ideas you can make yourself? Perhaps you have seen the popular trend for chalk paint furniture in designer stores, or you have seen some fabulous DIYs done with chalk paint. Chalk paint is one of my absolute products to use for furniture makeovers, as it is so forgiving

Table Makeover: how to Change a dated kitchen table into a farmhouse beauty with fresh stain and a pretty color wash paint technique. Farmhouse on a budget!

I've been working on some house projects. The latest has been my dining room chairs. I bought these four from REDO. (click on that name for the link to their FB page) They have a shop in Boone, IA that is open on the weekends. It's a great place to look for project pieces. Someone had started to paint them but never finished. They were all scratched up and in need of some love but I thought they would be great. They have a charming cottage feel to them. Here's another "before" picture so you can see the details... My farmhouse table is painted in French Linen ASCP. I have found that French Linen looks great with pink. So, I bought a new color.... "Antoinette" is her name and she is lovely! Pink just makes everything a little better in my book. Here's how the chairs look now... and now with the table... Sweet Antoinette was the perfect touch... love these two colors together! Thanks for stopping by! I'm working on finishing up a few projects in my bedroom so that should be coming soon. Linking To: Pink Saturday ~ Mod Vintage Life ~ Make it Pretty Monday The Scoop ~ Savvy Southern Style ~ DIY by Design Miss Mustard Seed ~ The Shabby Nest ~ French Country Cottage The Inspiration Gallery ~ Rooted in Thyme ~

En sittbänk med tidlös formgivning och med mångsidig användning. Passar bra när du behöver fler sittplatser, extra plats i hallen eller någonstans att lägga kläderna på. KÖPENHAMN sittbänk har rena linjer, lätt vikt och är tillverkad av naturmaterial som jute och vitsåpad ek. Benen levereras i två delar och skruvas enkelt ihop. Det gör att vi kan skicka ett plattare paket till dig som är bättre för miljön. Viss montering kvävs. Design: Jotex Design Studio. Material: Jute och ek. Storlek: Höjd 44 cm, bredd 120 cm, djup 42 cm. Skötselråd: Torkas av med lätt fuktad trasa. Dammsug sadelgjorden.

The pastoral retreat was restored to its former glory during a year-long, top-to-bottom reno.

Need some new home decor and furniture ideas you can make yourself? Perhaps you have seen the popular trend for chalk paint furniture in designer stores, or you have seen some fabulous DIYs done with chalk paint. Chalk paint is one of my absolute products to use for furniture makeovers, as it is so forgiving

This outdoor dining set has been transformed with Chalk Paint™ by Annie Sloan in English Yellow and Matt Lacquer for a tropical outlook all year round.

My better alternative to chalk paint yields a nicer result with less effort and MUCH less expense. Here I detail why I don't use chalk paint on furniture.

i must confess, one of the reasons i was attracted to trying Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint was purely because it works on most surfaces and requires zippo preparation, (according to the nitty gritty). so armed with one pot of 'old white' and a can of clear wax i set to on our tres large old english church pew. now our church pew has been around a block or two before finding me nearly 2 years back on Black Friday. actually it found me before Black Friday however i was a little canny and went back on Black Friday thinking to myself antique dealers surely are happy to bargain with you even more so, on Black Friday and much to my delight, i was tres right! church pew 'before' now our church pew at some point had been either left out in the rain or worst still, been in a church with a leaky roof, i fear the latter probably to be true. i left it as-is until recently when a willing victim needed to be found within Mossy Shed for the purposes of trying out the Chalk Paint. and so i went on my merry way thinking it most likely 2 coats maybe required as it was a light white on top an oak wood. after the first coat i must admit i was a little fretful although i was not letting Mr Doubter in on it. after the 2nd coat i started to see promise but alas, still that oak was looking limed. a 3rd coat it had to be, by now of course i was at the point of give up or go on to till the end. i told myself despite heavy arms and aching bod, there was no giving up in this here shed, this here week after the 3rd coat i stepped back and still that darn old back rest on the pew just kept on soaking it up and shouting 'limed' back at me. i looked into my dwindling pot of paint and surmised, i could if i was tres caution and careful, eek out enough for a 4th coat along the back of the pew. i might add, at this point, the back side of the pew only had 2 coats as i was fearful my little can of Chalk Paint just wasn't going to see me through. 4 coats of chalk paint and 1 coat of wax later... after all those layers it was time to add the wax and then buff the wax. i was on my knees by then, literally and figuratively. oh why oh why did i think the fact of 'no prep' would make this an easy peasy quick paint job. wax on, then rubbed off i stood back to survey the final product of my pew. had i just created the most expensive and not to mention labour intensive undercoat of all time i asked myself. i pondered and then i went off and pottled. after some pondering and pottling i decided, the pew and its many coats of Chalk Paint was a keeper for now, however if you were to ask me would i use this paint again, truth be told, i doubt it muchly. do not get me wrong, the finish and the look of the pew is pretty darn peachy... is it what i was looking to end up with? perhaps not. will i make it work? yes i will. would i go back to my faithful paint next time? without a doubt

American chalky paint tutorial, a furniture makeover review.

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