We recently had the opportunity to donate a piece of our furniture for my church school auction. I toyed with the idea of donating a raw piece that the winning bidder could work with us on customizing, but ultimately decided it would look prettier and get more bids if it had a beautiful makeover. We hoped a buffet/dresser would be a good bet and appeal to a wide group of bidders. This piece had been in our inventory for awhile and was a nice size, so we went with it. Overall it was in great shape. The original plan was to stain the top and paint the bottom, but when we moved it out of our storgae unit, we remembered it had damage to the top that prevented an easy stain, so we scrapped the

There are always those colors that you just can't wait to get to....I personally couldn't wait to do a dresser in a soft pink, so when a custom order came in for a bedroom set with a mix of black and pink pieces, I was doing a happy dance :-) I wish we had some nice before pictures to share of this one, but we don't, so I will show off all of the pretty "afters". This soft pink is called "Belle at the Ballet": I love how our client mixed in some black and used her pink piece as the signature piece. A look at the black chest of drawers done in General Finishes Lamp Black: A cute little night stand to accompany. This wasn't from the same set, but the curve in the bottom panel coordinated nic