Antique Shop Booth Renting: Here’s What to Look For
Selling is the only way I can keep painting furniture, one piece per week, more or less, depending on what life throws at me. The selling landscape where I live in lower-mid Michigan is competitive. I’ve experience different shop management styles, rates, and philosophies. 10 years and 5 different shops […]
Shellac Then BOSS for Some Prime Savings
For the past 3 years, I’ve been using white oil based primer on almost all of my furniture painting projects. (See Primer Comparison post). But I kept running into a design problem. White oil based primer prevents from doing any kind of finish distressing – except for white painted pieces. […]
Decoupage Collage on Furniture – Here’s How
Whatever you are in to, there is a plethora of vintage ads for a decoupage collage. For me, it is a therapeutic creative project to do. Collect some magazines and fetch a plain faced piece of furniture. Scroll down for some more inspiration and ideas. INSPIRATION AND IDEAS The best […]
Big Shift for 2024 Picking, Painting and Re-Selling
My strategy for 2024 starts with a confession from 2023. it has taken me an entire year to notice and accept big changes in decor style, economy, and thrifting. It was a hard year. Painted furniture sales slowed and if I were to think about it, sales really started to […]
The Diary Of A Furniture Painter
The pandemic was good to me. Painted furniture sales were terrific and since I paint for sanity, it was almost heaven in Michigan. My how times have changed. An economic slowdown in 2022 and a move to an antique shop (of near flea market quality), my painted furniture sales screeched […]
My DIY Chalk Paint (Improved 3x)
How To Neutralize Orange Oak – No Bleach
If only orange oak would stay a beautiful light color as it does when freshly sanded. As soon as it is touched with top coat, as you know, the orange color pops out of hiding. And it’s not that I don’t absolutely adore it’s luscious wood grain. I do! The […]
Little Black Dresser – Raised Stencil Lesson
These solid wood sturdy dressers from the 60’s are the best for an updated makeover and especially this one with it’s unique drawer configuration. Raised Stencil Technique Lesson Learned I thought the stencil design across the top 4 drawers was the perfect solution for adding a trendy design. Ideally, the […]
Blended Colors Under Decoupage Tissue
The first Antique Coral Victorian Dresser was so fun to create I did it again. When any Victorian dresser comes my way again, she will likely get the same treatment: decoupage inside architectural frame of drawers, carnival stripes somewhere, cool chic hardware and embellished keyholes and knob back plates. I […]