Leigh Ann insists I’m never around when she needs to get something that I’ve put away in the top of the tallest cabinet or shelf in our house, so I thought this sturdy stepstool might keep me out of trouble.
The flat surfaces of the bench made it a good candidate for Minwax® PolyShades®,
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I love the aerosol versions of Minwax® Fast-Drying Polyurethane and Minwax® Polyshades® for touch-ups of worn spots on older furniture, but sometimes I don’t want the over-spray to land on adjacent parts. As a solution, I keep pieces of cardboard handy to protect any parts I do not
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In my office I collect goose decoys — old, new, and in between — and fell in love with the pose of this brand new, machine-molded, synthetic material goose. Rather than wait a hundred years for her to acquire some signs of age, I decided to carefully do a little distressing . .
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Even thought they grew up in a house full of antiques, my sons have both furnished their first apartments with help from Ikea — which might not be such a bad idea, given their lifestyles! They also picked up some unfinished furniture bargains, which prompted their father to pass
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