Most homes will have a piece of pine furniture – perhaps a bedside table or a whole chest of drawers. This orange pine – often varnished or waxed – can be particularly hard to paint over, especially ...

Catalina Stogdon gives a pine chest of drawers a makeover with paint, a bit of elbow grease and some sparkly glass knobs Credit: Photo: CHRISTOPHER DRAKE Most of us have at least one piece of ugly ...