Crappy, Crappy, Credenza. Some of you all may or may not, be wondering why its such a biggie for me to be on {Studio 5}. Of course it would be awesome to win for the sake of winning but the biggest reason is because, Studio 5 sort of changed my life…I was completely burnt out from sewing baby stuff and it made me discover a new way to be creative! During the summer I happened to be flipping channels and {Brooke from All Things Thrifty} was doing a demo of her {PB knockoff signs}. She was so cute that I headed over to her blog and oh.my.gosh. I spent the next 2 days reading through every.single.post. and plotting and planning. Ta Da! I have posted about my glazing technique {here} but I will show you step by step again for all you newbies! 1. 2. 3. Now you get to glaze! 4. 5. 6. And here she is in her permanent home in my entryway: So ladies if you haven’t had the time to head over to {Studio 5} to vote please do, hopefully then I will be able to inspire someone the way that Brooke inspired me!
P.s. How to Build Under-Cabinet Drawers & Increase Kitchen Storage: The Family Handyman. You could build the drawers with nothing but hand tools and a circular saw, but a table saw and miter saw will give you faster, better results. A nail gun is another big time-saver, though you can hammer everything together with 1-1/4-in. finish nails instead.
All the materials are available at most home centers. In the hardware aisle, choose “full-extension” side-mount drawer slides (see Photo 3). That way, only 3 to 5 in. of the opened drawer will be covered by the overhanging cabinet front. With cheaper “3/4-extension” slides, only about half the drawer will be accessible. If you can't find full-extension slides, or if you want “overtravel” slides that extend even farther, shop the Web. Search for “drawer slides” to find online suppliers. Choose hardwood plywood like birch or oak for your drawers. Kitchen Cabinets with DIY Drawers. Some of you may have seen my sneak peek of what I have been up to last week. Seriously, this project took me forever to do. Day one consist of me going to bake some cuppy cakes and couldn't find the pan that I wanted and a glass mixing bowl sliding out of my bottom cabinet landing on the tip of my little piggy.
So scratch the whole cupcake making day. I had a plan that I concocted in me head for about 3 seconds and got right to it. I prematurely busted out the small shelf in both cabinets and headed to the store. I saw some cool kitchen drawers that you can install inside your cabinets at Lowes a while back and thought it would be a good way to get a little bit more organized. Soooooooooo when I get there I realize that these darn drawers are $63-$65 EACH!!!!!!!!!!! No way. I got home and didn't have any energy to even begin. I love this man guys. Day two I got down to business. I made them by using a basic drawer design. 4 sides and a bottom. This is what they look like. Painting furniture black | Southern Hospitality. Back in 2002, I was on the cutting edge of the black painted furniture craze, when after doing a kitchen renovation at my house in Georgia, I painted my kitchen chairs black (which I shared about 2 years ago here).
And I haven’t looked back since then. There have been many more furniture transformations using black paint since that day. I think this trend actually started with Ballards Designs (at least to me) when I picked up their catalog and began seeing black furniture, a light bulb went off. I can do that! You’ve seen countless demonstrations of painting furniture black on the web, but here’s mine….again. So, join me today for another black spray paint project. These 2 harp back chairs are yardsale finds (of course, they are!) Outside they went and first I wiped them down with a liquid sander. I used Rustoleum Black Satin spray paint on these, but any brand will do.
After drying about 10 minutes, the chairs are ready for their spray paint debut. Like this, this looks good. Added to: Crackle finish with Elmer's Glue. Thanks to Dollar Store Crafts for featuring this post! For years whenever I wanted a cool crackled effect on my painted projects I used the very expensive (to me) crackle medium and even bought some paints that were supposed to crack on their own. Because of the cost I did not do anything large and I was sparing in what I did do. Well, thanks to this cheap alternative, I can go a bit crazy and experiment because I found out how to get the crackle effect with Elmer's Glue!
It's alot less expensive than any size bottle of crackle medium and just before school it's downright CHEAP. I've been doing this for awhile but if you go to the Elmer's faq site, you can see the instructions towards the bottom of the page. On their page Elmer's used wood glue. So this tutorial, as requested, will have lots of pictures and step by steps so you can see what to expect. I painted this piece of foam board with flat black acrylic. A painting tutorial : the basics and a how-to on tea stains. I wrote this post a looooooonnnngggg time ago. And I thought I would give ‘er an old revamp, and post it again, because of some requests I’ve gotten from you guys this week. A lot of my views on things have changed, and my resources have grown, so I added a little of this and that… And without further ado: There are tons of wonderful tutorials on painting, out there on the WWW.
Once upon a time, I kinda figured my own little technique out, so I think it’s good to experiment, and get a well rounded view to decide which technique you really want to take before you begin such a task. I by no means think I am the know-it-all of furniture painting. The first piece I ever touched was Aiden’s nursery chest of drawers. So take a deep breath, and repeat after me: painting furniture is an art, not a science. {Now say it three times and promise not to drive to my house in the middle of the night and shake me awake in sheer desperation all because you feel betrayed by shoddy directions. A. E. F. H. Stripping the Buffet. A few months ago, Adam found this beautiful buffet on Craigslist. I loved the details, but for me it was a bit dark. I wanted to wait to paint it though until we were in our house so I could decide what would look best with our space. (Hey, that's me!) Don't all of those cords look great. :) Anyways, I decided that I wanted it white (of course).
But after seeing furniture on other blogs that were painted with the tops left wood, I thought maybe that would look good for this piece. So yesterday I headed to Lowe's to get the supplies I would need to strip off the paint from the top. After looking around the paint area for a few minutes I walked right up to two of the guys working there (who happened to be right around my age, early 20's) and I asked: "Where is your stripper?
" Maybe I'm a bit immature, but as soon as I said this I had to giggle in my head. Luckily, they did not laugh out loud. Anywho, here is what you need to strip paint off of a flat surface: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6 & 7.) God Bless! The Boy’s Dresser. I began this transition from baby room to big boy space several months ago, but I hit a few road blocks along the way. One of the challenges was finding a proper dresser for my little guy ~ one that provided plenty of storage, complemented the style of his room, and was the proper scale for the wall where it sits. For months, I’ve had my eye on the IKEA Hemnes dresser in white. I delayed purchasing it because it’s a two hour round trip to the closest IKEA, and it’s $300 buckaroos, plus California state tax, plus assembly.
Grrrr. So when I spied a listing for an Hemnes dresser on Craiglist last week for sale by a couple in my hometown for half the retail price, I scooped it up. So I painted it. Before: After: Perfect ! Thanks to the kind folks at True Value, I picked up a few new supplies for this paint job. One of the reasons I looooooove Zinsser’s ‘Cover Stain’ is that it clings to so many surfaces without sanding and dries in an hour. Here’s his old maple wood dresser.