Night stand refinishing ideas

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Particle board furniture gets a bad rap. It can definitely be worked with.

After taking a break from furniture refinishing for a year to have a lovely baby, Cathy decided to get back in the game when she found these wooden nightstands listed for sale online. Solidly built but not very attractive, these nightstands were crying out for a makeover.Cathy sanded everything down to remove the old finish before using her paint sprayer to cover the bases in Benjamin Moore Moon Rise. She chose to retain the original wood tones of the top, staining it with Minwax Red Oak.

I've always heard there's a danger of sanding through veneer yet I've never had a problem... until today... grrrr! I've sanded furniture like this before so I know veneers can take a moderate amount of sanding but what can you do to fix a sand-through?

This is a step by step tutorial on how to add legs to furniture. A very simple and easy way that will show you how different furniture can look with legs!

My co-hosts and I are so excited to share our favorite 25 trash to treasure projects from this month's Get Your DIY on party. If you missed it, the theme was exactly that: Trash to Treasure, my favorite! We each chose five fabulous projects and it was so difficult. I am amazed at the vision some people have. I

Let me start off by saying...I ain't no furniture painting expert. I'm just a girl, a SAHM, a wife, and DIYer who can't sit still so I started painting furniture. And then I started selling my painted furniture...and with each piece I paint, I learn more and more about painting furniture. One of the biggest quandaries I had was about finishes and top coats. People always say 'poly' and my question is always 'poly what??' I think most people assume polyurethane, but there is a time and place…