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dn t have time to paint the handles and fix the missing lock hole my sister promise she would do it i even showed her how yet every time i went back to utah to visit the poor hope chest was still unfinished sooo this past week i finally decided it was time it had to be done here s a little bit of the process i primed with kilz spray paint i think 2 coats and sanded lightly in between then spray painted a few coats of this after that it looked like this then glazed the entire piece with a black glaze this picture shows what exactly glaze does the left side is bare and the right side has already been glazed it makes a huge difference glaze up close and another before after it was hard to find a replacement for the missing lock so i decided to browse hobby lobby and see what i could come up with i ended up with this cute little thing i think i found it in the scrapbook section i could be wrong though anyway i just glued it on there and it ended up looking really cute spray painted the handles with black ish metal spray paint and 11 months later she s finished posted by ashley at 4 38 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 29 2011 espresso paint i helped my friend robyn refinish a dresser before christmas and it turned out awesome it was so fun to have someone to paint with and definitely sped the process up a ton we had the thing sanded primed and painted all in 2 days here she is before after i haven t painted anything this color yet which is really weird i know so i was happy to try it out the piece wasn t solid wood so we 1 sanded 2 primed with kilz we had home depot tint it cream color so it would show through once we distressed it 3 painted with behr if you d like the color leave a comment 4 distressed with good ol sand paper 5 rubbed a little stain over it because i love how it takes normal cream colors and antiques them a little bit we bought the hardware at hobby lobby of course but knew it would be too dark so we brushed on some extra cream colored primer with our fingers really technical super excited with how it turned out and super excited about the pictures i made my friend take of it for me finally a decent furniture shot thank you jourdan i always hate seeing furniture go but love getting ready for new projects posted by ashley at 9 06 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels before and after paint monday december 19 2011 restaining furniture my husband recently went to the biggest loser fitness ridge in malibu ca and was gone for an entire month so i thought it would be a good idea to finish my kitchen table while he was gone thought being the key word it was actually great timing to do it but way too hard being a single mommy for the month and trying to accomplish all these crazy tasks i set up for myself i make life way harder than it needs to be but it s fun let s be honest so here s the table project before after not the best picture in the world especially with my sweet salmon colored walls i always complain about but you get the idea the process we bought our table at an outlet store and it already needed lots of help then somewhere in there i may or may not have spilled wood glue on it and forgot to clean it ooopsies this is how bad my table was before i with help of my awesome friends carried the sucker out to my garage took it apart and slapped a coat of stripper on it you don t have to use stripper but it s awesome and saves a lot of time sanding it lifts the stain without you having to do really any work and it s great for all the crevices sigh i hate that word it s almost as bad as moist read the directions on the can you want to be careful applying it just brush it over one time let it sit for 15ish minutes then scrape it with a putty knife a few layers of nastiness should come right off if it doesn t you ve probably let the stripper dry on there too long tip use an empty box to scrape all the goop into it makes the process a lot less messy and p s wear gloves the left side of this table has been stripped once the right side has been stripped twice just to give you an idea of what the stripper does i stripped it one more time then sanded the table almost all the way down to the bare wood most spots were bare i left a few just to give it a little character and well i was sick of sanding as you get closer to being finished with sanding you ll want to use a finer grit of sand paper i started out using coarse because i m impatient but if you re smart start out with medium grit then fine then super fine after that i cleaned the table really well then should have applied a wood conditioner but didn t if you re doing this yourself i d for sure recommend using a conditioner why what happened well i ll tell you what happened i started brushing my stain on and the table pretty much turned black i wanted it dark but not that dark i used minwax dark walnut and have used it plenty of times before and it s never been that dark so the table must have been super dry so i just decided to brush it on everywhere and hope for the best and after a few hours it still looked sooo dark i looked online to find any kind of answers and the few answers i did find weren t available to me at 11pm so i came up with a little something myself maybe don t tell anyone and keep this off the record because i m sure any professional would tell me i m crazy and i totally messed up but i totally goof off ed my entire table yes i said it goof off and did it work yes it sure did ha who da thought the stain lifted just enough to make me happy after that i ended up brushing stain on a few more times to get it just the color i wanted waited for it to dry then followed with a few coats of minwax polyurethane polyurethane oil based because i ve read horror stories about anything water based on kitchen tables including this story here then and probably most important don t use the table for 2 3 weeks it may feel dry but trust me don t use it it s not a perfectly even job but i like how it turned out with a little bit of the lighter color popping through 6 years later and we finally have a nice looking table phewsh posted by ashley at 11 08 pm 74 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels before and after stain monday december 12 2011 elf and a table i found this on a blog last year and loved it this is also a preview of my kitchen table i just refinished after a long 6 years of desperately needing attention my husband and i bought it just after we got married at an outlet store for about 100 it just needed some help weeelll 6 years and lots of table cloths later it s finally done here s the horrendous before which i m actually embarrassed of now don t mind my son in the picture or my hideous salmon colored walls for that matter if it wasn t a rental it would ve been painted before we even stepped foot in the door anyway as soon as i get some better pictures of it i ll post it i m thrilled with how it turned out posted by ashley at 10 06 pm 33 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 19 2011 north pole sign after i made my stocking sign i still had plenty of wood left over so i decided to make a north pole directional sign as well i ve seen direction signs all over the internet and absolutely adore them sooooo up close sooo excited with how this one turned out also can t wait to put it by my front door and don t worry there s still a huge stack of this wood left so there will be plenty of projects left to make with this for the how to of printing on wood click here and again a huge thanks to my friends jake jourdan for helping me with this posted by ashley at 2 10 pm 541 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels holiday word art friday november 18 2011 the stockings were hung in arizona they don t have dumps where you can take all your large garbage to they have this super awesome system where once a month you leave out anything on the street you want picked up by a truck this works out great for two reasons 1 you don t have to make trips to the dump the dump comes to you and 2 you get to look through other people s garbage to see if you want any of it last week as i was dropping my daughter off at preschool i drove by a house with a huge pile of wood to be trashed and immediately turned around and threw it in the back of my car and don t worry i went back twice more to get the rest the wood is absolutely perfect and so my style anyway we don t have a fireplace this year in the house we re renting so i decided to make my own sign to hang our stockings sorry about the background i love how it turned out now i just need to add a couple holes and some ribbon or twine to hang it on my wall how to items needed wood citra solv paint brush laser printer 1 cut wood and assemble however you like a super huge thanks to my awesome friends jake jourdan for helping me with it they have all the tools anyone could ever want so i took it over to be cut and jake totally cut and glued the entire thing for me so so nice of him 2 i found a way on pinterest to transfer printer ink onto wood and it worked awesome click here for the full tutorial this method i used only works with a laser printer so make sure that s what you have before starting i used word to flip my letters because you have to flip the paper over to transfer the ink make sense if you re using word also go to create word art choose lettering and use the formatting palette the side bar to flip your image press the rotate button and flip horizontal 3 once you have your image printed line it up on the board and make sure it s exactly how you want it then turn your image over ink side down 4 citra solv is a natural degreaser that can be found in natural food stores i found mine at whole foods pour a small amount of citra solv in a bowl and using a paint brush paint on just enough citra solv to wet the letters just slightly turn your paint brush around and scratch each letter with the handle of the brush don t scratch too hard just enough to help the ink rub off onto the wood make sure to work in sections i painted the citra solv on about 4 letters at a time and don t use too much or the ink will bleed and not stick nicely hold the paper with your fingers firmly in place so you don t move the letters or ink around at all 5 when you re finished remove the paper and let it dry 6 these knobs are from hobby lobby i love them but they were a little too white for the wood so i rubbed a little stain over them to darken them up a bit then i measured drilled holes and put the four knobs in the wood that s it done so easy and so cheap i think the knobs were 10 from 50 off the wood was free and the bottle of citra solve was 6 99 which i only used about 2 tablespoons of click here for the tutorial of the stockings i made last year so sorry if this post is a little scatter brained it s been a long week posted by ashley at 4 17 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels holiday word art monday november 14 2011 yellow my husband would probably tell you i m awesome at starting projects and not so awesome at finishing them eh oh well i bought this credenza back in utah for 40 or 50 which usually would seem like a little much but in this case the thing probably weighs 300lbs and is solid so it was totally worth it i wanted to use it as a dresser for under my tv yes i already have one but why not switch it up already so eventually that will be the case i m still waiting to decide what to do with the middle part you ll see what i mean before after i can t decide if i want to cut out a section of the cabinet doors so that we can put our cable box x box etc inside and still be able to use the remotes with the doors shut make sense so let me think about it for a few more months then maybe i ll finish it ideas or thoughts anyone love love love the handles from good ol hobby lobby for 50 off i just noticed my daughter wrote on the dresser with marker the other day can you spot it in the picture yes she got in trouble will it happen again you can sure count on it sorry for showing you yet another unfinished piece but let s be honest it might be a while before the thing is fully finished so i decided to post it already posted by ashley at 10 09 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels before and after paint older posts home subscribe to posts atom this is me view my complete profile grab my button copy paste under design add a gadget add html follow me click the button have a question email me at ashleysfurniturefix gmail com search this blog categories before and after 11 featured 1 for sale 2 giveaways 3 holiday 5 home decor 4 make it yourself 2 paint 15 reviews 1 sew 3 solutions 1 stain 1 upholstery 1 word art 3 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sign as well i ve se restaining furniture my husband recently went to the biggest loser fitness ridge in malibu ca and was gone for an entire month so i thought it would be a good ridiculously cheap wall art sorry to keep you in suspense with the toilet paper rolls i found this idea on design sponge a long time ago and recently remembered it a burlap baby sign my sister and her husband had been trying to have a baby for over 3 years i won t go into detail for their sake but after many failed shag rug tutorial as i mentioned in the previous post my sister bought one of these for her babies room her s is probably double the size and light p little yellow barn if you haven t noticed i ve disappeared from this blog but for a good reason a friend and i have started a new blog head o reviews i ve decided i need to start doing reviews on products things i can t live without i m the type of person that gets super excit elf and a table i found this on a blog last year and loved it this is also 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