Painting

How to Paint Wooden Furniture

March 5, 2009

I know-this post has been a long time coming! After I wrote about my painted freecycle furniture, lots of you asked for a tutorial on painting and I’m finally getting around to it. While I’m not a professional painter and my paint jobs aren’t perfect, I hope that reading about what I’ve learned will be [...]

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It doesn’t rain, but it pours!

February 10, 2009

Last spring/summer, the free furniture was pretty much pouring in(I got four dressers, three nightstands, two desks, a chair, a table, and a file cabinet from freecycle). Happily(because I was growing very weary of painting!) nothing came along in the fall. Recently, though, I got the nightstand for Zoe’s room, and I also got this [...]

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The nightstand-painted!

January 27, 2009

Last week the weather was indeed warm enough for me to spray the primer onto the nightstand, and I also got a couple of coats of paint done before it got dark. Although it got colder the next day, I was able to finish up the rest of the painting indoors(since I brush on [...]

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Miscellany-celery, tea, hot dog buns, and sanding

January 22, 2009

I’ve never done a post like this before, but I have a bunch of things to say that wouldn’t make good stand-alone posts. So, here are several very unrelated things all squeezed into one post. Celery Last September, right before we went on vacation, I mentioned that I was freezing some celery(I had to do [...]

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Whee! A sweet freecycle find!

January 15, 2009

So, back in July I posted about a little nightstand that I’d painted white for Zoe’s room. I was pretty happy with how well it matched her dresser, but I just wasn’t a big fan of the scroll detail on the nightstand drawers since the dresser drawers are flat. Well, I snagged a nightstand from [...]

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If you don’t yet think that spray paint rocks…

December 3, 2008

I’m going to try to convince you again! We used to have a fish tank and a tall bookshelf in our dining room. Actually, wait…would you like to see what the dining room looked like when we bought the house? It’s pretty scary. Yeah. That’s three different kinds of wallpaper, plastic chair-rail, and green carpet [...]