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Porch Nook | The Best Furniture Paint Brushes

The Best Furniture Paint Brushes

I’ll be honest… It was like going on a string of bad dates, with each paint brush promising to be “the one”, only to end in disappointment… and loo...
Porch Nook | How to Use Oven Cleaner to Strip Furniture

How to Use Oven Cleaner to Strip Furniture

I have a theory as to why this hack is gaining momentum. Researching the furniture refinishing process for a first time DIYer becomes alarmingly da...
Pregnant and Painting Furniture

Pregnant and Painting Furniture

The most common question related to pregnancy and paint exposure has to do with painting the new baby’s nursery or decorating the house before the...
How to Pick the Right Paint Color for your Furniture Project

How to Pick the Right Paint Color for your Furniture Project

(Porch Nook color on coffee table: Marigold) Imagine this—you've just scored the garage sale finds of the year and fell in love because you, and y...
Porch Nook | How to paint upholstered furniture

How to Paint Upholstered Furniture

Tell me… how many beautiful pieces have you passed up because you didn’t want to shoulder the cost of reupholstering? Breathing new life into beat...
7 Unique Piano Bench Makeovers

7 Unique Piano Bench Makeovers

Being resourceful, having fun, seeing the potential of every object to be transformed, is the ultimate authentic creative style statement we strive...
Dry vs. Cure

Dry vs. Cure

It's REALLY hard to restrain yourself from using, or selling, a freshly painted piece of furniture 😬 (yep...this is what I look like when I'm in c...
Porch Nook | How To Create Faux Oxidized Copper

How To Create Faux Oxidized Copper

Shiny copper with a natural robin's egg blue patina takes my breath away every time. It's probably my favorite rustic look because 1) it's shiny (...