The Accent Piece
The Accent Piece is a blog about simplifying projects for the home like DIY furniture builds, painting projects, home decor, and tips on new home construction.
In this post, I’m sharing how I made over an old lamp from a thrift store to create an aged stone pottery finish on it. I was able to take a dated lamp and create this “found” pottery look for a fraction of the cost of other aged pottery lamps I’ve seen for sale. It …
It’s been awhile since I have re-finished a piece of furniture and it feels oh so good to get back into it. I got this piece a looong time ago. And by long time ago I mean its-been-a-year-because-I-couldn’t-decide-what-to-do-with-it-and-its-been-staring-at-me-ever-since. Consider ‘Project: Clean Out the Garage’ in full swing. And It only took me a year to …
I just finished another dry brushed chest of drawers. I’m lovin this dry brushed finish (the same technique I used on this piece). Here’s the before: And here it is after the first layer of the dry brush: I liked it, but I wanted a little more dimension. So I drybrushed a creamy white over …
