YELLOW FRENCH COUNTRY BED FRAME - painting an antique

Is your style French Country, more specifically vibrant yellows paired with blues? Does sunshine yellow make you smile like it does for me? If so this project maybe  for you.  

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ANTIQUE WOOD CUPBOARD - styled and decorated

I wanted to share with you a view of the antique cupboard I saved in it's forever home.

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HOW TO CREATE A BEAUTIFUL FARMHOUSE TABLE - A TRUE FABLE

Do I have a dining table tale to tell you ....

Once upon a time, in a land far far away from my current life I managed a large warehouse.

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FIXING AN OLD WOOD BLANKET BOX - and painting it shabby chic white

Several things were broken on this chest but I was able to fix them and give it a second chance with an antique white finish. The old finish was worn and beat up but I didn't realize it was so bad that the paint was going to bleed all over the whole cabinet.

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PRESERVING AN ANTIQUE WOOD CABINET

I had the pleasure of preserving an antique cabinet. She was really pretty from the outside, super old, hand made once upon a time and had lots of ware. The inside was another story, rotting and falling apart were just a few of her issues. It had been a rodent retreat for some time. They chewed large holes in the wood and did their business all over the poor girl. There were also multiple repairs done over the years leaving a large selection of different nails to be dealt with. The wood had shrunk so much there were ....

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WHITE CHURCH PEW - entry bench

Recently I shared how I cut an old church pew into two. Last I left you the two new benches I created from it needed to be painted.

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PAINTING AN ANTIQUE DINING TABLE

Our first dinner at this table ended up being
rather nice. We had been working all afternoon

getting ready for the first snow fall of the year.

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HOW TO PAINT FRET WORK - white display cabinet

How do you paint fancy wood fret work on a glass fronted cabinet without getting paint on the glass? 

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LEARNING ABOUT MILK PAINT - sea foam green cabinet

A lot more people have heard about Milk Paint in the last little while thanks in a large part to the internet and many DIY bloggers but Milk Paint has been around for thousands of years. 

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FIXING A BROKEN DRAWER - tutorial

Okay ladies this one is for you.

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WHAT IS A DOERNBECHER - shabby chic white desk

I found a Doernbecher that needed my help.

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A HUSBAND, AN ANTIQUE, AND A POST CARD - aqua chest of drawers

George bought a little antique dresser last week and was very excite to arrive home with it in his van. 

BEFORE

Looking at it in the back of the van, I have to admit

 I was perplexed because it looked nice as it was.

 I had assumed it was for me to work on.

He knows my motto "if it's not broke don't fix it"

It had rich color in the wood, beautiful hardware

 but once I get closer I realized how short it was,

 only about 27" tall. We have been looking for a special
 piece to fit under a low window. Now this started to make
 sense, however it also has to be very shallow which this was
 not at 20" deep.

NOT GONNA WORK FOR US

 I had been toying with the idea of turquoise

 and now I have to come up with a plan to refurbish

 the thing.  Of course the first thing was

 to put some casters back on it to give it a bit more

 height. Then George shows me some repairs that it

 needed. The insides of the cabinet and drawers

 definitely would benefit from attention. The top

 surface varnish was bubbled all over.

Okay this is sounding better, I like to be needed.

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But I didn't have a clear vision and it was sitting in the middle of my work space and something

had to happen. The top couldn't be painted without being stripped.

If I have to strip it I want to stain it dark walnut. That's a start! That will go with turquoise.

So I removed the top to take outside to do the dirty work.

When removing it I found something, half a post card stuck

 between the frame and the top.

Addresser was:

Mr David Brown

1256 Davie St.

Vancouver BC

It reads "arrived at _____ johston. He is a big boy,

 was asking for you. The picture on this card is the

 hotel I stayed at in NY"

signed: "Father"

 See the post mark?

 1919 ..... wow that's pretty cool

Okay now back to the dresser  Trial and Error ....

I finally ended with something I adore ...