The cottage bed is all finished, assembled, styled, and photographed.  It even got its own little room in the corner of my studio. I just used things I had on hand to create an eclectic, cottage-y, bedroom, a ‘tween girl who was in my imagination. The color of the bed is a custom mix of Kitchen Scale and Boxwood from the MMS Milk Paint line and it was finished in Tough Coat to seal the chipping paint. The needlepoint was made by Jeff’s grandmother and I purchased the German oil painting off of Etsy a few years ago.  Those are both just props for the shoot, but most of the other pieces will be for sale at Lucketts. I will apologize to all of my perfectionists out there.  I didn’t try to straighten out the wood applique on the headboard.  I fix things that are structural or functional issues and, of course,

Okay, so the post title is a bit of an exaggeration.  These little handmade hardware cabinets have just 17 drawers between them, but it seems like a lot more than that! Do you remember what they looked like before?  Here’s a refresher… Clearly, some guy (or perhaps a gal) made them for a workshop space and have gone in and out of those drawers with greasy fingers.  There was something that spoke to me, though…the crude design and all of the imperfections and irregularities.  They definitely needed to be freshened up, though! We painted them in two coats of Farmhouse White from the MMS Milk Paint line, lightly distressed them, letting the paint chip where it wanted, and then applied Tough Coat to finish. I like that they look fresh, but still old.  Well worn and well loved. The inside of the drawers looked a little grubby, though, and I had

Another piece is finished and ready to wait in the wings until the Lucketts Spring Market in May!  It seems so close, yet so far… Anyway, the finished piece is this antique farmhouse table… …and, though they are not 100% finished, these antique Hitchcock-style chairs I purchased last fall… For the chairs, I decided to tape off the rushing and just paint the frames in MMS Milk Paint Grain Sack.  Kriste worked on applying the coats of paint over a few days, since chairs are tedious!  It’s best to work on them in doses. (As an aside, a few people have asked about Kriste.  Well, she is now six months pregnant and is expecting a boy!  So, she is mostly doing computer work, pricing, etc. and not as much crawling around on the floor, sanding, etc.  Jenn and my mom have come in a few times to help with that sort of

Last year, we retired two colors from the Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint line, Apron Strings and Dried Lavender.  I’d like to keep our line at 25 colors, so we are replacing them with two new colors.  And one of those colors is launching today – Outback Petticoat. It’s orange, in case that wasn’t apparent. Let me tell you, orange was really tough for me!  First of all, I needed to convince myself to create an orange.  Since I don’t use a lot of orange, I couldn’t easily envision it on a piece of furniture.  But, I searched for inspiration and found loads of beautiful rooms, pieces, and color palettes featuring orange.  I decided I could get on board with it. Once I was at peace with orange, the second difficulty was finding the right shade.  Orange can go bad very easily.  While developing the color, I ended up with all