I love brick. Painting faux brick walls is easy! Brick walls, brick floors, brick ceilings.  Any and all of them.  Brick can really give a space a unique and textured look, whether left natural or painted. I decided to add a brick wall section in the design studio for photographing furniture and I wanted it […]

How to paint furniture with Velvet Finishes! I get a lot of emails from people who are new to painting furniture.  It’s so cool that they are interested in trying out Velvet Finishes! But many of them are scared. They are afraid they are going to ‘mess up’ a piece of furniture.  They are afraid […]

If you paint a lot of furniture you know what I’m talking about. The bending, the up, down, over, repeat.  It can be a killer on your back. That’s why we decided to Build Work Tables for Painting Furniture at the Design Studio. Why, oh WHY, did we not do this years ago? It was […]

Make your file cabinets look like furniture with this DIY file cabinet makeover! At the design studio, I need file cabinets near my desk.  If not, I file in the floor. It’s not a good look. But neither are file cabinets.  They are. So. Ugly. So I decided to make my file cabinets pretty with […]

This little project turned out great.   Quick, easy, and basically free! Make your own furniture handles out tree branches. So a recent client gave up the big city life and moved to the country. Way.  Out.  To the country.