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How to Antique a Desk in 4 Easy Steps

October 15, 2015 By Colleen 4 Comments

how to antique desk in 4 steps

How to Antique a Desk in 4 Easy Steps

Filed Under: Antiquing & Distressing, Furniture, Home Decor, How To & PIY, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Paint Wood, Specialty Paints, Techniques, Tutorials

Painted Antique Desk and Glidden Giveaway!

October 2, 2015 By Colleen 17 Comments

painted antique desk

Check out how I painted this antique desk my dad made for my brother, using Glidden High Endurance paint.

Filed Under: Furniture, Home Decor, More Stuff, Paint Surfaces, Paint Wood, Sponsored

A Super Simple Spraypainted Stenciled Stool

October 24, 2014 By Colleen 2 Comments

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How to transform a $4 thrift store vanity stool with spraypaint and a stencil. And a little alliteration.

Filed Under: Furniture, Home Decor, How To & PIY, My House, My Stuff, Paint Metal, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Spray Paint, Stencil, Techniques

Painted Vanity with Glidden’s Echo Lake Aqua

October 19, 2014 By Colleen 12 Comments

Painted Vanity with Glidden

I transformed a seldom used vanity into a fresh, bright accent with Glidden’s Duo paint+primer and silver stenciling.

Filed Under: Furniture, Home Decor, Markers & Pencils, Metallic Paint, More Stuff, My House, My Stuff, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Paint Wood, Sponsored, Spray Paint, Stencil, Techniques

Stenciled Copper Leaf Glass Table

May 6, 2014 By Colleen 10 Comments

Copper-Leaf-Table

Use new stencil size to create this stenciled copper leaf glass table.

Filed Under: Furniture, Home Decor, How To & PIY, Paint Glass, Paint Surfaces, Paint Wood, Sponsored, Stencil, Techniques, Tutorials

Painted Desk with Chalk Paint®

March 23, 2014 By Colleen 28 Comments

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I’ve never kept it a secret that I’m pretty bad when it comes to painting furniture. I have no idea why, I just know that after umpteen failures, I swore off painting furniture for good. That is, until the opportunity to review Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan presented itself. I was perfectly up […]

Filed Under: Chalk Paint, Furniture, Home Decor, How To & PIY, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Paint Wood, patterns, Tutorials

Eight Painted Desk Ideas

March 18, 2014 By Colleen 8 Comments

8 Desk Ideas

When we moved into this house nine months ago I was so completely in love with having my own space, the fact that there was barely any natural light hardly bothered me. Hardly. Then when I ‘made’ my big worktable, the honeymoon continued on. But, like all romances, every once in a while you need […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Home Decor, My House, My Stuff

Antiqued Chair with Spray Paint

October 2, 2013 By Colleen Jorgenson 1 Comment

Antiqued Chair with Spray Paint

I tried ‘shopping’ the house for things to decorate the front porch for Fall. Hard to believe but nothing was just ‘right’. Aw, gee . . . another trip to the thrift store. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Right? This plain l’il schoolhouse-lookin’ chair was half off the day I went […]

Filed Under: Antiquing & Distressing, Furniture, Home Decor, How To & PIY, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Paint Wood, Spray Paint, Techniques, Tutorials

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