On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of visiting my local Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Now I’ve been there before hunting for painting projects and staging items, so this was not my first trip. This particular visit was special because I met with their team to collaborate in celebrating Earth Day this year!
Bar Keeper’s Friend is an excellent product for cleaning porcelain knobs, or any type of hardware on your furniture projects! Learn how I used it to shine up a set of porcelain knobs on my empire dresser.
The longer I paint furniture, the more I realize how important it is to take basic safety precautions whenever you’re engaging in this type of work. Doing a blog post on safety isn’t the most exciting content to push out into the world, but I think it’s really important because it’s something I engage in every single day.
I carry two wonderful milk paint lines in my retail spaces. General Finishes Milk Paint... ...and Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint. Both of these milk paint lines have fabulous properties and are well-suited to different looks and surfaces. So how do you choose which one is right for your project?...
Layering General Finishes products is easy and produces the most beautiful results! Their oil based Gel Stains, water based Wood Stains, Glaze Effects and Milk Paints can all be combined in various orders to create interesting and lovely depth and dimension on furniture projects. I...
Marc and I picked up two depression era dressers from Lancaster last week. They were offered to me by a very sweet and generous follower on Instagram. They have the usual beautiful features that are common on pieces from this era. They're definitely beautiful, but upon closer inspection, they...
Whether you recently purchased a painted piece of furniture or just finished doing a furniture makeover yourself, you want the finish to last, right? You want that beautiful painted buffet or your new kitchen cabinets to hold up over the years and look as pretty down the road as it does now,...
For the purposes of this blog post, I want to emphasize the importance of prepping a piece before it receives a new finish. This is often the step that is skipped, overlooked, and even scorned in the paint world. People don't want to hear about prep work and they cringe when...
I have been getting so many requests for nightstands and had been relatively unsuccessful in finding a winning pair whenever I went online or out in person to shop. Those I came across were either particle/pressboard, fake wood, super wobbly, straight up ugly, made of material...
Instagram is probably my favorite social media platform out of them all. It's so much fun interacting with people who follow my feed (and meeting them in person while I'm out and about). Yesterday, someone sent me a photo of a lovely Jacobean buffet and asked me if the list price...
In my last post, I shared how I replaced a piece of leather inlay on an antique oak desk. Today, I'm sharing the full reveal but before I do, let me back up and remind you of what the piece looked like before: I picked this pretty piece up at Crickets Antiques and Garden Market,...
How to replace damaged leather inlay How many of you have seen damaged leather inlay on pieces brimming with potential, but have no idea how to fix it? I totally get it! I used to wonder how in the world I was supposed to fix those areas too. Today, I'm sharing an easy way to fix all of that!...
The furniture makeovers just keep on coming, don't they? This steady stream of productivity is the result of almost 2 weeks worth of pumping out one project after another. Today's makeover is this pretty serpentine kneehole desk that I purchased from my local Habitat for Humanity...
Whether you are a new subscriber or you've been on board with me here at Eight Hundred since day one, it's pretty obvious that most of my furniture makeovers involve Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint. Now before I get into sharing why I love this line of paint and have given my...
Milk paint vs. chalk paint - what's the difference? One of the most frequently asked questions that comes my way is, "What's the difference between Chalk Paint and Milk Paint?" Let me take some time to answer this common question and introduce you to the differences between these fabulous paint...
Eight Hundred Furniture's tagline is "Furniture With a Story". (Did you know that?) Part of knowing the story behind a piece is researching any maker's marks or labels you find on the backs, bottoms, and insides of drawers. Have you ever noticed these? It's definitely worth...
I wanted to go into the transformation of the Edison record cabinet a bit more, since I only shared the "after" photos in my last post. I acquired this piece from a woman I met off of Craig's List. I bought a mirror from her and as we exchanged, she mentioned she had several other...
Blue, green, yellow, shade, tone, hue, cool, warm. Did you realize there were so many things to learn about colors? During the past few months, I've been learning all about color and I'd like to pass my insights along to you. Hopefully this little post will help you...
