Finish Tutorial

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

Hello DIY Friends!  We are on the finishing stretch of our Tiny House project, and we can't wait to share all the projects with you.  

The finishing stage really does take up the most amount of time, doesn't it?  The same could be said true for finishing any project.

Over the years, I've gotten quite a few comments and questions on how to stain wood projects.  After staining hundreds of projects, I believe I've found that happy medium that works for me - where