by Lauren | Jan 26, 2018 | How To, Products, The Basics
How to clean furniture before painting. Do you really need to? Yes! Having clean furniture is a key to good paint adhesion. So, before you put paint on the brush pull out some rags and give that piece of furniture a good cleaning. Our instruction label on the...
by Lauren | Jan 16, 2018 | Friday Fundamentals, How To, The Basics
Prep – Reasons You Should Prior To Painting The Prep Edition – Part 2: When to Prep Prep: Really? In some cases, yeah, and sometimes it’s just good insurance. CeCe Caldwell’s Chalk + Clay Paints’ artesian formula was developed to...
by Lauren | Jan 9, 2018 | Friday Fundamentals, How To, Paint, The Basics
As a New Year has just begun, I am going to put it out to the universe (now known as the World Wide Web) that I am going to blog more this coming year. I plan to bring back Mixology Monday and Social Saturday. I am not saying that you will see an installment of both...
by Lauren | Mar 21, 2017 | Enhancement, Finishes, Guest Post, How To, Paint, Products, Stain + Finish, Tuesday Treasures
Welcome to the second part of my blog series about buying furniture. In part one, I discussed how to tell if a piece of furniture is of good quality or not. In the future post I will get back around to my original focus of how much painted furniture is worth. ...
by Lauren | Nov 16, 2016 | Enhancement, Finishes, How To, Paint, Products, Stain + Finish
With our paint, you can often just clean the dirt off a piece and start painting. However, your paint is only as good as the substrate, the layer underneath. If your project has ‘character’ or perhaps some minor ‘flaws,’ you may need to do some...
by Lauren | May 26, 2016 | Enhancement, Frugal Friday, How To, Products
Are you thrifty? frugal? cheap? I am! I try not to buy just for the sake of buying, but if I need something specific, I try to determine a way to make do with something I already own or buy pre-owned before heading to a store to buy new. If you like to use...
