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Faux Bamboo

Sometimes when I buy something at a yard sale or resale shop, I just use it the way I found it until I can get around to altering it to my surroundings. Here are three pieces that fell victim to that fate.  I purchased this floor lamp at a charity resale shop about a year ago. This was a fairly recent purchase from an estate sale.  It is the stand for a globe.   This table I have had the longest...probably four years or more.   All these pieces have a bamboo look to the legs so I decided to attack them at the same time.   Both the lamp and the table will be used in my bedroom.  I like that they each have the metal piecrust edge to the tabletop area.   This piece will be in my foyer.  Doesn't it look better already and that is just the primer?   Since the lamp was already painted, I skipped the primer.  I mixed Woodmont Cream (BM), Favorite Tan(SW), and Candlewood Cream(?) together to come up with this color.  I may have to tweak it some, but

Old Dog, New Tricks

Once I painted the table and chairs on the sun porch, I started seeing the rest of the porch as a little shabby.  I was giving some thought to painting the floor and enlisted my brother's opinion.  We discussed options for the floor and I was ready to start the prep.  On his way out the door he casually said, "What about painting the brick?"  He no more than pulled away from the curb and I had my brush dipped into the primer. Sounds rash but let me give you a little history. This shows the back of my house in 1982. Take note of the size of the porch. Now focus on the outline left on the brick by the sloppiness of the previous painter and the darker bricks that had been covered.  There were also wooden anchors driven into the brick so, all in all, it was a bit messy. The porch that replaced it is considerably larger.  Now that unsightly wall is inside this porch. I made many attempts to remove those awful marks on the brick wall.  Some things helped a l