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White Empire Dresser

March 6, 2013 ·

This unique empire came to us via a friend of a friend.  Old, beautiful, but in sore need of some TLC. I don’t know how old this big beauty is but her knobs were attached with wood screws! As per a custom order we painted the entire piece including the wood knobs in ASCP Pure…

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Filed In: Make + DIY / Tagged: Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, Annie Sloan clear wax, Annie Sloan Pure White, antique, dresser, empire dresser, glass knobs, Hobby Lobby, white dresser

My New Old Silver Chandelier

January 9, 2013 ·

On one of our trips to the local antique mall, my Mother-in-law saw me admiring an antique silver chandelier.  Turns out it was wrapped and placed under the Christmas tree just for me! Here’s what it looked like straight out of the box. As you can see, before we could even test it out to…

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Filed In: Home + Decor / Tagged: antique, antique silver chandelier, chandelier, dining room, lighting, medium based flame bulb, rewired chandelier, rewiring, silver

Artist File

September 4, 2012 ·

I mentioned last week we were almost finished redoing the artists’ file cabinet we picked up for free a while back.  Here’s the before: If it hadn’t been for the chunk of wood missing right up by the “Free” tag I would have left this piece as is.  But because we needed to fill in…

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Filed In: Uncategorized / Tagged: 2 inch casters, antique, artist file, black, cabinet, casters, Lowes, office, toy storage, two-tone, Waxman, wood

Antique Silhouette and Chalkboard Dresser

July 6, 2012 ·

When my inlaws moved a month ago they gave us an antique dresser that had been stashed in their attic.  It needed quite a bit of love but we decided it would be perfect for our daughter’s room once it was fixed up! Take a look at the dresser before it got a makeover. It had beautiful…

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Filed In: Make + DIY / Tagged: Annie Sloan Pure White, antique, chalk paint, Chalkboard, chalkboard paint, dresser, Mod Podge, paint pen, Sharpie, Shellac-Base Primer, Silhouette, Valspar, veneer, Zinsser

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