My client reached out to me to update a beautiful desk that was her mom's. This desk is a perfect example of taking an important piece of furniture and making it fit your lifestyle. The desk was in great shape except for a few natural scratches and dings. She originally asked me to paint the… Continue reading A Desk that Would Make Mom Proud
This dresser may go down as one of my all-time favorite makeovers. It was a custom order from a client who wanted me to give it a fresh face. It was a sentimental piece which once belonged to her father-in-law. There were several coats of paint on the entire dresser, and there were two small… Continue reading Sentimental Dresser Becomes Beautiful Again
I had in my mind that this dresser/nightstand combo would be a pretty simple makeover. Shame on me for making that assumption! I knew that the leg on the dresser was broken, but I wasn't concerned because I fix that kind of thing all the time. When I started in on the repairs for the… Continue reading A Challenging Little Bugger
This project was so much fun! The client contacted me to finish this bookcase to go in her young daughter's bedroom. The Lilly Pulitzer-style room was bursting with color and accented with navy blue. She wanted the background of the bookcase to be Benjamin Moore's Hale Navy and wanted a link pattern in gold across the… Continue reading The missing link
These tables were offered to me as a "fixer-up" project. The styling on them is great and they are good quality. The only problem is that Fido used them as a chew toy. The corners on both tables were badly chewed. I knew I could make them look good as new, so they came home… Continue reading Doggie Damage
This is hands down one of the coolest pieces I have ever had the pleasure to refinish. It is the "everything" cabinet. It offers tons of storage in the way of drawers and doors, it showcases collectibles in 9 individual cubbies, and just when you thought it couldn't get any better, the top drawer opens… Continue reading The Cabinet that Does Everything
I purchased this dresser at a good price, as it needed a lot of work. When I picked it up, the owners told me that it had been built by his grandfather, and they were so happy that it was going to be rehabbed. As you can see, it had a lot of damage in… Continue reading “Cool” to Coastal
At first glance, this piece was in pretty rough shape. Ok, at second, third and fourth glance, it was a mess! But its original beauty was peaking through and I knew it could be beautiful again. Besides, they just don't make pieces like this anymore! … Continue reading They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore
I had the real honor recently of being asked to refinish a sentimental hutch that came from the client's childhood home. It is amazing to be able to take a piece of someone's history and bring it to life in a real, modern-day and useful way. The original hutch was taller than the client wanted,… Continue reading Saving the Sentimental
There is great satisfaction when an old piece of furniture can be saved and brought back to life. There is even greater satisfaction when a homely piece of furniture is recreated to be almost unrecognizable. There is such a high that goes with that! Now, I understand that most of you think that such deep… Continue reading Little Blank Slate
