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Posts tagged “refinishing”

Good Questions: Anyone Know Which Bed This Is?

Noella writes in with a call out for ideas: Hello Apartment Therapy, First let me tell you congrats for all the hard work you've been doing these years and for all the amazing posts that have truly in...

Good Questions: Reseal or Refinish?
Los Angeles

I'm moving in with my girlfriend into her 1940's apartment with real hardwood floors in rough shape. They're worn out with little to no finish on them. They smell quite bad due to her two dogs, spills...

Flickr Finds: Transform Your Furniture with Decoupage

Jonathan's post last week on The Palihouse Holloway Hotel's corkboard got us thinking about decoupage. A decorative art form made with collected images, it's simple; if you can cut and paste, you ca...

How to: Lime Furniture

Last week Jonathan blogged this rustic bed. Liming, based on an old technique to protect furniture from insects, is less slick than painting, with a wider margin of error, and easy to achieve with a ...

LA Store: West LA Plating Company

In the midst of refinishing a bureau we found on Craig’s List, we find ourselves stuck for hardware. We're looking for something highly polished and silver in color, with a chinoiserie feeling, but...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #6 - A Stain In the Neck

The last time I checked in with my January Jumpstart project, I was finishing staining the cabinet. Two days later after drying (the wet weather increased drying time to twice as long, even inside our...

Gregory's Project: The Stereo Cabinet #5 - House of Stain

Saturday morning we made our way over to the hardware store and got ourselves all the supplies we needed to get started in transforming the stripped bare exterior of the stereo cabinet into something...