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8 Furniture and Finish Brands That Wowed Us at ICFF 2017
The stars of ICFF, furniture and finishes face stiff competition each year to stand out from the crowd. For us, these eight exhibitors stole the show this y...
How to Transform Furniture With Creative Paint Applications
Breathe new life into your furniture and cabinets with outside-the-box paint, stain and sealant ideas.
Why Do Cats Scratch Furniture?
Our veterinary behaviorist explains why cats scratch furniture — and what you can do to stop this common cat behavior.
How To: Color Wash Furniture
For a muted look, try this color-wash technique on any unsealed material -- wood, terra-cotta, wicker, and bamboo all absorb watered-down paint pigment.
How To Select A Paint Finish
What Are The Differences In Paint Finishes?<br>Once you have selected your paint color, the next step will be to choose the sheen or paint finish. The finish is a measure of how much light reflects off a painted surface. Some of the most common sheens are flat, eggshell and semi-gloss, but there are actually several
Finishing Touches: Six Reasons Why Surface Finishes Matter
Surface finishes can greatly impact the way you see light and subsequently experience glare, depth and color. Read more to learn why surface finishes matter.
8 Hardwood Floor Finishes and Their Pros & Cons
Hardwood floor finishes have varying levels of ease, durability, even glossiness. Brush up on the basics of 8 popular options before choosing yours.
How to Whitewash Furniture
Summertime puts me in the mood for lighter tones and a more beachy, bleached-out color palette. In the spirit of adding that summery feel to my home year-round, I decided to try my hand at whitewashing a piece of wood furniture. I picked up at the flea market a table that had a beat-up, dark brown finish but elegant, clean lines. After a little experimenting I’m happy to report that it’s easy to achieve really pro-looking results on your own. Click “play” to…
Need a New Hardwood Floor Finish? Take Easy Street!
Basic Coatings Easy Street hardwood floor finish is environmentally friendly, easy to use, and it saves you time and money. Read more.
How to Repaint Plastic Furniture
After a harsh winter, your tables, lawn chairs, and more can be looking a little beat up. Save your outdoor pieces with a simple, one-step process.
Learn how to install a foil finish!!!
How to Avoid Common Wood Floor Finish Failures
Are you installing or re-staining your wood floors? AltruWood offers some tips that can help you avoid some of the most common wood floor finish mistakes.
How to use concrete as the floor finish
Concrete floor covering ideas, learn about staining, polishing, stamping, overlays and decorative epoxy floor finishes.
How to paint a motorcycle tank, finishing it up at the UGG
This picks up about half way through the process of painting a motorcycle tank. All of the dents have been filled with body filler, and the tank has been pri...
From blah to bold! How to repaint furniture — without losing your mind
You've seen the pictures. Scuffed-up coffee tables, distressed dressers and sad, unloved armoires all revitalized by a colorful new paintjob
How to Re-Finish Your Hardwood Floors to Perfection
Bringing a dull, scratched hardwood floor finish back to perfection used to mean sanding down to bare wood, but not always. A technique called screening takes off the worn top layer of coating, lea…
How to Faux-Age Painted Wood Furniture
If you can paint and sand, you can create this timeworn look on any new or old piece
How To Re-finish Furniture with Spray Paint
Have some worn furniture that could use a stylistic update? With a little spray paint you can give more life to items around your house. STEPS: 0:24 - Re-fin...
Unsure How to Select Artwork? An Expert Weighs in With Some Tips
They say that it’s the little things that make all the difference, and that’s definitely the case when it comes to putting those final, finishing touches on a space — like selecting (an…
30 Wonderful Kitchen Flooring Ideas You Will Admire
A kitchen is that place in your home whose floor is all visible. Because there are no such things like furniture or rugs that will hide some part of the fl
How to Make New Wood Look Old With Paint
