Home Office Surprise

With my hubby out of town for a few days, it was a perfect opportunity to make over his office. It was a tired light blue room with dinged-up walls, tired baseboards and just looked rather rough. Certainly not an inspiring space to spend the majority of your day working, although the dog did loveContinue reading “Home Office Surprise”

Covering up Smokey Furniture

In my previous post Giving Old Pieces New Life I mentioned that I inherited a few pieces of furniture from my Granparents houses. One of those pieces was a 1950’s Secretary. This one took a lot more work than anticipated, due to 65 years of smoke build-up. A few lessons learned from this project: Scrub-a-dub,Continue reading “Covering up Smokey Furniture”

Giving Old Pieces New Life

This past year, my parents sold both of my grandparents houses…with that came a lot of furniture! Old, beautiful furniture. It was tired, a little out of style and some had a thick coat of nicotine, from many years of smoking in the house. Some of the pieces that came out of the houses wereContinue reading “Giving Old Pieces New Life”