Finish Tutorial

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Rustoleum for providing product and working with me on this post.  All opinions expressed are my own.

Hi everyone!  Thanks so much for your patience with me the last couple of weeks.  I've been spending some family time, and it's taken me a few days to get back into the groove of blogging.  We of course are pushing through still on the house, as the leaves are already starting to change up here in Alaska, and we have to have a roof on the new

Hi folks!  Spring is finally here in Alaska and I'm dreaming about outdoor furnishings!  For those of you working on outdoor furnishings, I wanted to take a second to share some of my outdoor finishing secrets with you.

Finishing outdoor furniture is more like finishing a deck than a dining room table - especially if you live in a wet climate. So today I thought I'd share a few of my hard earned outdoor furniture finishing secrets with my blog friends.

DISCLOSURE: I have worked with Rustoleum for many years and love their products.  This post is sponsored by Rustoleum, all opinions expressed are my own.

A few of you are asking about how we achieve a "bare wood" look on projects, so I thought I'd take a second to share some of my wood finishing secrets.

A couple of years back, we built a remote cabin on a lake up here in Alaska.

We spent weeks hand cutting all of the wood beams inside the cabin.

I have worked with and used Rustoleum products for many years.  This is a sponsored post and all opinions expressed are my own.

A couple months back in a video episode, we turned a leftover pile of 1x6 tongue and groove into a backdrop for our staircase -

I was really hoping for lots of gray aged boards, but we only ended up with a few.  Varathane recently debuted a product called Weathered Wood Accelerator, that ages wood in minutes