Great Grandma’s Dresser and the Girls Room

I got a taste of what it’s like to refinish paint a family heirloom. It was a little bit of that sickening feeling of “if they only knew they’d be rolling in their grave.” This was my Great Grandma Zeller’s dresser (minus the...

Horrible

Do you ever come across a piece of furniture that is just so horrible that you wouldn’t even dream of touching a paint brush to it?Horrible was an understatement for this nightstand.The paint application was so thick and chunky. It was beyond repair. Worse yet,...

How to Operate a Drum Sander

The first refinishing project I ever tackled were hardwood floors. When I was about 13 or 14 years old I told my parents I wanted to rip out the carpet in my bedroom and keep the hardwood. My dad said it was OK, but I would have to do all of the work. So, we tore out...

More on the Girls Bedroom

So, I’m re-doing my girls bedroom! I shared my master plan in a previous blog post. This past weekend, I finally buckled down and got down to work. In case you missed my last post, this is the before picture.After this weekend, we made some progress but have a...

The Girls Bedroom

My March home improvement goal is to refinish, from bottom to top my girls bedroom.My poor little Molly girls is almost four years old and wears her sisters clothes, gets the remnants of her sisters shoes, slept in her sisters nursery and moved into her sisters big...

Master Bathroom Makeover

Some things take forever to finish. Such was the case as my Master Bathroom. I started refinishing it last April…yep…nearly a year ago. I re-painted my chipped up, laminate, boring, hum drum cabinets and started to re-paint the walls.That’s...