A set of basic wooden furniture is housed within a space full of distressed wood walls and floor planks. - Pakin Songmor/Getty Images If you find yourself in possession of outdated-looking wooden ...

Marian Parsons—mother, wife, and creative soul—was crushing on hand-painted antique European furniture. She coveted the timeworn look but couldn’t rationalize the price or preciousness, especially ...

Instead of dishing out bags of money for the same product at a store, why not do a bit handy work? Grab some old furniture and a bit of paint, and find a method to age furniture that works best for ...

Just as people with a past are interesting, so is furniture that looks as though it’s lived through some rough patches. Intentionally shabby, slightly worn furniture is in vogue, and it’s likely a ...

When an old piece of furniture needs a breath of new life — or a new piece of furniture cries for the grace of age — a few cans of paint can make a world of difference. If distressing sounds stressful ...

Bonnie Cooper has seen plenty of slumps since she began selling furniture in 1968, but nothing like the scene outside the window of the Ontario sofa store where she now works. Just across the parking ...

Over the entrance of the 30-story American Furniture Mart Building on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive is a bas-relief of a woodman hacking a tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a ...

Anthony Acosta, 45, owns Distressed Design, a handcrafted artisan lighting studio that he primarily runs out of his home workshop in Midland. Distressed Design offers professionally made, custom ...