Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you’re having a great week off with your kids (if this is  your school break). We are visiting friends and getting some valuable (and fun) family time in!

With this week’s furniture makeover, I had my mom in mind the whole time. She loves birch trees, she says that they make her smile!

We started with this dresser:

I don’t know how many of you know this, but I use to paint… like paintings you would hang on the wall. I didn’t paint furniture first. So I find it really relaxing to paint designs on furniture. One of our plans for this year was to have me clear some other things off my schedule so I could get back to the paintbrush again. I find it so inspiring and freeing to create designs I’ve never seen before.

This dresser seemed like the right layout to add birch trees. The top two doors  almost looked like two canvases just waiting for a hand painted finish. I did a drippy finish on the paint job using Benjamin Moore’s Sea Haze and a black enamel. I did everything from watering it down to create the dripping to splattering the black onto the dresser. Whatever I could do to add a lot of texture and visual interest.

Then I did the hand painted birch tree design on the front.

Here’s the whole dresser! We also added new hardware and sprayed it with a protective clear coat:

This dresser is available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. 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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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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