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Easy furniture painting technique - create a Caribbean Blue finish by layering colored glazes.

How To Get a Layered Caribbean Blue Look When Painting Furniture

January 24, 2018 By Jenna 46 Comments

This post is sponsored by Velvet Finishes, however all opinions are 100% mine. Affiliate links are included in this post. Rarely do furniture projects go as planned around here. In fact, they often go full speed ahead, jump the track and end up over the bridge in the opposite direction of where I had intended…

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Prepping Furniture to Paint: When to Sand, When to De-Gloss and When to Prime

Prepping Furniture to Paint: When to Sand, When to Degloss, and When to Prime

October 6, 2016 By Jenna 72 Comments

Not sure if you should sand first before painting that table? Could you skip the sanding? Maybe just degloss instead? Or maybe prime? This guide to prepping furniture to paint should answer all those questions and more…

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Painted & Stained Furniture Projects with a HomeRight Finish Max / Furniture Makeovers

Show Me Your Grain…Your Wood Grain.

October 14, 2015 By Jenna 93 Comments

I won’t lie.

The sight of a beautifully bold painted piece of furniture (preferably either kelly green, navy blue or a bold red) makes my heart soar.

Not as much as Grunt Labor makes my heart soar, but pretty close.

However, I have come to really appreciate a good grain…a good wood grain that is, because chocolate isn’t a grain yet, is it? I’m still waiting for chocolate to be classified as “good” for me.

Here are a few of my favorite stained and painted furniture makeovers…

Click the link below to read the rest and enter the giveaway!

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Nothing is safe now! You can make any color of furniture glaze - and its so easy! How to make furniture glaze in any color

How to Make Furniture Glaze in ANY Color

March 12, 2015 By Jenna 67 Comments

Up until last October, I wasn’t a big glazed furniture kind of gal.

Glazed donut kind of gal…abso-freakin-lutely….glazed furniture…not so much.

But then I used dark glaze on the IKEA Tarva drink bar.

At that point, dark glaze and I started to become friends.

We experimented. We plotted makeovers.

We worked together on a glamorous dresser makeover.

Dark glaze and I were skipping happily along off into the sunset….

And then I met clear glaze….

And he swept me off my feet….because he can turn any color into a glaze….

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Lists lots of different topcoats, what to use each one on and how to do it. Painting 101: Topcoats and when to use them

Painting 101: Topcoats and when to use them

March 2, 2015 By Jenna 102 Comments

Wondering what top coat to put over paint? Specifically what kind of top coat for painted furniture? Consider this guide the holy grail for just that. It will walk you through all the different types of top coats and when to use each.

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Wrapping Paper Topped Table {rainonatinroof.com} #wrappingpaper #modpodge #makeover

Top Furniture Makeovers at Rain on a Tin Roof

September 20, 2013 By Jenna 30 Comments

You guys know I love a good furniture makeover. There are furniture makeovers I’ve done that I haven’t even posted about. There is so much furniture waiting for a makeover in my garage, that I can’t park in there. And sometimes Grunt Labor can’t park in there either. And he does not like that. But,…

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