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Peonies are my favorite and when I mentioned this to my farmer friend she gave me her first three blooms of peonies, along with some peach roses, from her magnificent flower garden. I noticed that this year is a particularly great year for f…
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My mom is amazing, talented, and optimistic. She and my dad have been rehabbing houses for as long as I have been alive. Between my mom’s optimism and my dad’s philosophy of always leaving places better than when you found them, they c…
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Paloma Chalk Paint is a soft, pretty, lavender with grey undertones. Annie Sloan knows how to create beautiful colors!
I recently moved and I needed a dresser for my new room. I had this old, black dresser in my closet at my…
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Paloma Chalk Paint is a soft, pretty, lavender with grey undertones. Annie Sloan knows how to create beautiful colors!
I recently moved and I needed a dresser for my new room. I had this old, black dresser in my closet at my…
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I love using Annie Sloan’s Craqueleur for achieving an aged patina. I picked up this white, ceramic madonna wall hanging at an estate sale because I thought it was kind of cute.
It was plain, white, and boring, so I added some de…
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I would be thrilled to find one of these shapely dining chairs, so imagine my joy at finding a set of four. Someone did not realize their value and had stored this set outside. They were in bad shape and had black widow nests in the se…
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I was lucky to find this unique, farmhouse cabinet at a yard sale recently. This cabinet would be the perfect piece in a farmhouse style kitchen, for extra storage or as a pantry.
The old latex paint was peeling and dirty, but…
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One of my customers at Loot told me to keep an eye out for a buffet for her new home. A couple weeks later, I found this long dresser at an estate sale and I though it would make a perfect buffet for my customer.
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It is a soli…
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I picked this vintage dresser and bed up at a yard sale in Sacramento.
The set had been covered in a red enamel that was cracking and peeling in places. I did not want to strip the entire surface, so I peeled off the red paint, in …
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This rounded, vintage wall shelf came from an estate sale. It is Syroco style and not made out of real wood, but it is sturdy and cute.
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I painted the shelf with the lovely, pale green hue of Versailles Chalk Paint. …
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