Your kitchen table is one of the hardest working pieces of furniture you’ll ever have in your home! Whatever finish you get on your kitchen tabletop needs to be able to stand up to regular wiping down and lots of everyday wear. For that reason, staining...
Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve checked in with you all. I hope you are enjoying the fall weather and the transition to the holiday season. Things here at Lost & Found have been a little chaotic lately, but I’ll share more about that...
It’s the thing I dread most at every estate sale. I’m negotiating the price of a furniture piece with the estate sale worker, and they casually ask, “What do you plan to do with it?” I take a deep breath, smile a big smile, and respond,...
I love when I get a comment or email from someone asking me for advice on a furniture project. Sharing what I have learned and helping others is why I write this blog, so when a reader seeks out information and asks for my input it makes this all worthwhile. I...
I hope you all had a chance to read in my last post about all the prep work this Duncan Phyfe style dining table needed. A makeover was in order and chose to do a makeover with chalk paint. It was a giant project–dining sets usually are! This is my 4th set to...
My kids have been gone this week at “Grandma & Grandpa Camp,” which means I’ve had much more time than usual to work on projects. We’ve been rearranging bedrooms, packing up baby stuff we no longer need, installing kitchen lights, and...
Let me start off by saying I didn’t discover this process . . . other bloggers out there have shared how this works before. But I love using this technique on pieces and wanted to share with you how it has turned out for me. Most of you probably already know...
I’m not sure if fluffing is a universal dealer term, or just something said around my mall. But that’s what we call it when we do a little rearranging of our booth inventory. If things sit around in the same place for too long, they tend to become...
I love finishing a project, don’t you? It’s always so gratifying to get to the end of something and say, “I did that!” This is the third dining set I have redone (you can see the other two here and here) and each one has provided...
Hi everyone! I know the blog has been light on content these past 10 days, I’m sorry! I have gotten so behind on my business projects and on life in general. My goal this week is to slowly make my way back to a “normal” schedule for our family...
A month ago, I accidentally bought an antique dining table and 4 chair set. I say accidentally because I made someone on a Facebook garage sale site a really low offer, never thinking they would accept it, and they did! Whoops. I broke the news in a car ride to the...
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