Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Country Chic Paint. All opinions, images and love of painting projects are 100% mine. When we decided to build a dining room table, painting the table legs was definitely the part of the project I was looking forward to the most! We'd never built any furniture or stained anything before, but painting? I can handle that in my sleep. Somehow, it still took me a while to find time to paint the legs during this busy time of year, but ... Read More about How to paint table legs
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How to stain wood (even if it’s your first time!)
An easy tutorial on how to stain a wood table or wood for any other woodworking project – even if you’re worried about how to apply wood stain because you haven’t done it before! When we finished building our farmhouse table, we decided on a darker wood top and white painted legs. But I was a bit intimidated when it came to finishing the top since I wasn’t quite sure how to stain wood! Even though I paint furniture ALL the time (see all furniture makeovers here), I'd never stained ... Read More about How to stain wood (even if it’s your first time!)
A DIY Christmas village from the thrift store
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Country Chic Paint. All opinions, images and love of painting projects are 100% mine. Collect old Christmas village pieces, and you can easily get an expensive looking DIY Christmas village on the cheap! It's the year of miniature Christmas, apparently. I don't know how it happened. Between the Christmas village, miniature living room, DIY Christmas list ornaments, lantern turned villages, snow globes ... and now this little white ceramic ... Read More about A DIY Christmas village from the thrift store
A simple Christmas centerpiece + tablescape
Anyone else go without a real table for a long time and then go into non-stop tablescape mode once you got one? Because that's where I am at the moment. I put together a third Christmas tablescape for the season using pretty basic pieces. ... Read More about A simple Christmas centerpiece + tablescape
Christmas decorating in a big window box
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ... err a white kitchen. Specifically, our gorgeous white kitchen just hanging out waiting for us! If you were around last year, you may recall the easy Christmas kitchen decorating ideas we did there. So gorgeous and white. Meanwhile, the rental kitchen is a bit dark ... but we have that big window box that I've honestly had some trouble decorating (it's almost too big!) until now. ... Read More about Christmas decorating in a big window box