The piano refinishing is finally finished and I am pretty excited about how my shabby chic transformation turned out! I thought I would finish off by showing you all the final steps of the refinishing process and then show the after shots as well as tell you about how I decided to decorate/stage it, frugally, to fit in with the direction that I want to
The piano refinishing is coming right along, so I thought I that I would share with you guys the process that I took to get it ready for the Chalky Paint make-over.
I bought an old, and well-loved, piano a couple of months ago. I have always felt like music belongs in the home so I sacrificed a bit in the budget so that I could make it happen (totally couldn’t have even gotten it if some nice men from my church hadn’t helped move it, so extra thanks to them!)… as luck would have it, I
I have been dropping the ball like crazy lately… yeah, I’m a single mom of four that is now working two jobs to make ends meet (some blogging months are good and others we scrape by), but I still think it’s unacceptable for me to do things like…you know, dropping off my kindergartner to school on a day that she doesn’t even have class. Yeah,
Cleaning wood floors is simple, but there are definitely some precautions that you should take in order to ensure that you are prolonging (not damaging) the life of your flooring while you’re at it. Today I decided that I want to share with you the basics on how I clean my wood floors without getting excess moisture between the boards…which is a big concern if
Did you know that, during the winter months, many people vent their electric dryers inside their home to save on heating costs? We are heating air to dry our clothes and then sending it outside, so by redirecting that hot air into the home, it makes total sense that it could save money on heating costs…I had just never heard of it before last winter,
