Making Pre-fab look…well…Not Pre-fab

What is pre-fab you ask? In a nutshell…virtually anything from Ikea. It’s inexpensive furniture that is made by connecting board “A” to board “B.” It often times comes in a box and is put together by the consumer, or can be...

Wow Us Weekend Week 5

It’s week Five of our Wow Us Weekend Link Party! If you have been following for any length of time, you know how much I love cane chairs. They look great in their natural wood, and even better painted! My favorite pick this week was this refurbished cane chair...

Lucketts Green

For the moment, Lucketts Green seems to be the most popular color from Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint line. Though, it’s too early to tell, we sold out of Lucketts the second day. Of all the colors, this was the one I was most looking forward to painting...

Picking Hardware

Yesterday, I got about 150 new pieces of hardware in stock along with new hooks, metal wall hangings and other metal furniture embellishments. When they got to my house, my girlfriend was there and I was completely giddy about some of the new pieces. I started tearing...

Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint in French Enamel

 I just got back from a blissful week long vacation! sigh  It’s always hard to get back in the swing of things! But, such is life…and I have a back room full of furniture awaiting a paint brush!  Before I left, I had a chance to finish an...

Wow Us Weekends Week 4

Happy 4th Wow Us Weekend Link Party.Our favorite of the week was the gossip chair makeover with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint in Tricycle Red by Jeane of Perfect Imperfections!What wonderful antique-style chipping — the dark bottom layers peeking through...