We painted hundreds of pieces of furniture each year, and while I show mostly wild colors, white is the top-selling color for us. Gallon per gallon, white is likely the most popular color for lacquered vintage furniture for us. Hard to believe, I know. Of course, the wild, colorful furniture stops the scroll, but the […]
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Every olive green dresser that we painted was a super hit seller in 2022, and the popularity has continued well into 2023. Every time we paint one, it sells in a blink, and I haven’t had a buyer (yet) who has been dissatisfied with the color. I finally realized that olive green is a very
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Over the course of my painting career, I have painted several pieces of Dixie Shangri-la furniture. It is some of the prettiest vintage chinoiserie furniture that’s easy to score and looks fabulous painted. Shangri-la furniture, in its vintage condition, is fairly dated-looking. Despite being made of solid wood, this furniture has a painted yellow finish
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A painted vintage china cabinet is that crown jewel, that WOW piece in any room. China cabinets make a massive statement due to their size, but a bold pop of color takes them to another level. In this post, I am going to go over my ten most loved (by customers and followers) painted vintage
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I am a HUGE fan of mother-of-pearl tile as a material for backsplash. I chose it for the kitchen remodel of my first house way back in 2014 and chose it again for the fireplace of our current home (2023). There is no doubt that I will use it when we remodel our kitchen. It
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A white china cabinet might seem like a blah idea for someone who sells vividly colored furniture, but hear me out. It is the easiest choice for a large piece of furniture that occupies so much visual space. A china cabinet is a HUGE piece of furniture. It’s technically two pieces of furniture stacked on
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Oval Room Blue is my most popular, most requested blue. The owner of this hutch requested it for her hutch. To be honest, when she sent me pictures of this old country-looking thing, I cringed. Oval Room Blue On A Country Chic Hutch It had all the ingredients of dated and ugly. On top of
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I have loved and indiscriminately used Thibaut Honshu wallpaper for many years now. I myself have used it on the china cabinet and secretary backs. But I recently got a picture of this colorful nook from a customer, and I was floored to see the transformation of the space. Thibaut Honshu Wallpaper In Navy Color
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Jasper Furniture Company’s vintage bubble glass china cabinets have been my absolute favorites for the past several years. They have very unique design elements that set them apart from other china cabinets of this era. Unique Design Elements Of Jasper China Cabinets Jasper China Cabinet – Before/Vintage Condition In its original vintage state, Jasper china
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Henry Link Bali Hai is quite possibly the prettiest vintage faux bamboo available to a furniture buyer, in my opinion, of course. I have a blog post about vintage faux bamboo. There were many other noteworthy furniture manufacturers that also made faux bamboo furniture in the 1950s and 1960s, like Dixie, Drexel, and Thomasville, but
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