Lindy at Cottage Hill had owned a bow front chest for years. She wasn’t in love with the wood look and overall found the piece pretty “blah,” making the decision to paint it an easy one. Lindy didn’t just stop at changing the color of the chest. She went all out, adding braches with craft [...Read More]
Black and Gold Bedside Chests
September 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
While Nancy from Marcus Design claims not to be much a DIYer, she completed one fabulous project that totally makes up for all those left undone. Nancy gave a plain IKEA pine chest a dramatic Dorothy Draper inspired makeover. Nancy coated the two chests with black lacquer spray paint and then used a stencil and [...Read More]
Numbered Bureau with Rope Pulls
August 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
With plans of giving a garage sale dresser a makeover, Mia from Jilly & Mia headed straight to her trusted friend – Google. She stumbled upon the perfect inspiration piece and got to work giving the dresser a healthy worn look with her sander and diluted paint. She stenciled on some numbers, added rope pulls, [...Read More]
Distressed Rope Pull Dresser
April 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
One of the last big projects Kim from Too Much Time on My Hands completed for her son’s vintage airplane room was this distressed dresser with rope pulls. The project involved sanding (and sanding and sanding…) her son’s original nursery dresser, stenciling on some ordinal numbers, and applying a couple coats of glaze mixed with [...Read More]
