Hi All!
How are you? I hope you had a great weekend! We had a busy one thanks to all of you! Troy’s 13th River Festival was this past Saturday and the store was packed! We had a great time seeing customers and friends – new and old. Thanks to all of you who stopped by.
John and I were able to get away one a quick day trip to the 1,000 islands area of New York and we toured Boltd Castle on Heart Island. I’ve wanted to go to 1,000 islands for so long! I can see why everyone loves it so much. The water was so blue and bright, the mountains so high, the trees so green, the houses so stunning; you get the idea. Here are some pictures of our time at Botld Castle! 
Stunning, right??
On to furniture we go! I wanted to show you a fun makeover because it incorporates a little different style than I normally do. Usually I paint the outside of a piece of furniture and sometimes stain the drawer fronts. In this case, I wanted to mix it up a bit and paint the drawers and stain the outside.
Here’s a picture of it before: (I forgot to take one before I started prepping it – sorry)
The drawer fronts and door fronts were painted with Benjamin Moore’s color Soft chinchilla 2135-50. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We filled some of the hardware holes so we could use a single knob for each drawer and door. My mom stopped by with old chess pieces from my dad. It was missing some to the set so he didn’t want it any more. I decided to make it into hardware. Here’s what you’ll need to make the hardware:
You’ll also need super glue, a drill and pliers. I drilled about 2/3 of the way through the chess piece with a drill bit that was just a tiny bit smaller than the screws so it held tightly. Then dripped super glue into the holes and screwed the hanger bolts into the holes using pliers.
The outside of the cabinet was stained a bit darker than it’s original finish.
Here are the after pictures for you:
Pretty cool, right??
This piece is for sale right now and you can check out all the new furniture for sale on our website here! If you’d like to purchase it, please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!
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Sarah ;)
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This piece is sold but you can check out all the new furniture for sale 
They wanted storage for wine bottles and a shelf. They also knew they wanted it to be teal! Other than that, they gave us free reign to come up with the design. Oh boy, you know how I love that!!
This bar was a custom order so it’s already sold but there are more new pieces on our 
We met to talk about it and she wanted open shelving so we removed all the doors on the front. The sides of the top were glass so we also built in side panels to make it look more like a shelf than a repurposed hutch. It’s painted with Benjamin Moore’s color Tropical Teal! After we painted it (with just one coat of paint), we heavily distressed it and glazed it using Rustoleum’s Antiquing Glaze. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our 
Ohhhh how I love the new hardware!
I purposely left the inside of the cabinet without distressing it because I felt like distressing it would make the piece look too country! I wanted it to be clean to also make the pieces that were inside the focal point not the paint job. As I was putting everything together, I thought of using barn board for the shelves instead of painting the shelves cream. I called Carol and she gave me the ok to do that! I absolutely love that change!!
Here it is in it’s new home!!
Thank you so much for the business Carol and Paul!! Here’s a little before and after picture for you all, too!
This hutch was a custom order so it’s already sold but there are more new pieces on our 
It needed so much love!! It had damaged veneer and much cleaning was needed!! So, we started with the repair and cleaning. Next, I wanted to give it an aged pewter finish. So, I hand painted it with Ace silver metallic paint. If you’re using that, I highly recommend painting outside because it’s oil based and pretty stinky. It adheres really well on anything though. I tried using the orbital sander and hated it so I used my good old hands to sand the distressed area. As I was painting, I noticed that the bottom drawer had no detailing and would be a perfect spot for a print or design. I had bought these old map posters at Ballard Design in Florida a year ago and have been waiting for the right piece to use them on.
I used spray adhesive to to attach the poster to the drawer front and then clear coated it by using a spray paint can. I thought the silver was too bright at this point so I decided to glaze the whole piece to give it a darker more aged appearance. That’s exactly what it needed!! The glaze toned it down to the hue I was looking for. And, what do you think of those globe knobs I found ;) ?!
John and Josh built me an herb garden planter for Mother’s Day! I love, love it!
So, I ordered modern legs for it online and decided to give a traditional dresser a modern makeover!
The best part?? This dresser is for sale on our 
We stained it using Minwax Dark Walnut Stain.
The best part is, House Hunters – Where Are They Now will be coming back so this beauty will be on HGTV soon! Keep an eye out for it, won’t you?!?
It’s not that this piece was in bad condition, it was just that it had an outdated look. I wanted to take people’s breath away when they opened the front.
Wait for it…. OPEN!
