Good-Bye, The Handmade Hangout

After 6 fabulous years of parties, Allison and I will be ending ours! Thank you to all of those who have participated over the years! We have had the best time getting to see your work and creativity! I wish it could go on indefinitely, but Zack and I have so many exciting things happening!! 

We are launching several new projects and I can't wait to share them all with you. We have a been working on a short film and plan to enter it at the Sundance Film Festival. We got the idea while we were working in Sicily last year - I told you a little about it here. 

I have also been developing a beautiful paint line, straight from Italy! I’ve been gathering pigments from all the the world and cannot wait to share. We will be launching that soon. More to come on both of those fronts! 

I love you guys and will miss hearing from you, the most! Please continue to comment so I can stay up to date on your lives, too. xoxo

Salvaged RH Style Pine Coffee Table & The Vecchio Bridge

We were on our way to dinner, but the second we stepped out the amazing sunset demanded to be seen! So we headed to our favorite spot, the Ponte Vecchio bridge, to take in the colors. The bridge was a totally party, as usual!! Enjoy the videos!

Let's get to this awesome project. It's my favorite kind of post! Where usually hard to achieve colors are a piece of cake! This client wanted to match her new farmhouse coffee table to Restoration Harware's "natural" color, on this Salvaged Trestle Table. This look is easy to achieve on pine and it's just a subtle aging.

Materials

• Pine Furniture 

• Weatherwood Stains' Reclamation stain

• Sand paper and Hand sander
• Rags
• Weatherwood Varnish Topcoat

Directions

1.] SAND: Begin by sanding the wood piece, that way the wood will easily accept the stain and create a good pallet to begin your work. Start with a rough grit with a 120 grit. 

2.] STAIN: Once the wood has been stripped or sanded back down to raw, you can stain it using Weatherwood Stain's Reclamation stain. Simply apply Reclamation with a sponge brush, brushing product onto sanded wood and allowing it to air dry. Allow to dry one hour. You'll see in the above time-lapse, the color change is subtle and is pretty similar to Restoration Hardware's "Natural" color. 

3.] SEAL: Apply a wax or varnish seal coat to protect the piece. SatinVarnish will give the look of raw wood, but the protection of cabinetry!

The texture on this maple just makes the color POP, don't you think? This stain will turn most wood species this shade. 

Check out our Color Chart for more choices and don't forget to save 10% on your first order with code: WELCOME10.

The Handmade Hangout #276

So glad you are here for this week's linky party:

Handmade Hangout Linky Party