Easy Weekend Projects Booklet Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Create The Extraordinary From Ordinary Furniture Finds

(HIT) – Ever consider using a dresser as a kitchen island, or turning old columns into a living room wall unit? All that’s needed is a weekend or two and some tips from the experts at Minwax® to blend creativity, functionality and style into furniture must-haves.

The new issue of the Minwax "Easy Weekend Projects" booklet offers simple, yet unique and creative ideas for decorating any home. The free, 12-page booklet features a welcome from master carpenter Norm Abram, host of the popular series "The New Yankee Workshop." The handy booklet combines simple techniques and colorful photography to guide do-it-yourselfers through a number of unusual wood finishing projects that put a little fun into decorating.

Four projects are highlighted, all utilizing unfinished furniture, flea market and garage sale treasures and even lumberyard finds. Little Seats, Big Style takes useful stools of all shapes and sizes and makes them over into colorful, stylish and functional works of art using various Minwax stains, such as Wood Finish™, Water-Based Stain and White Wash Pickling Stain for a variety of styles. Sharp Dresser is a unique project which not only shows how to strip and refinish an antique dresser, but also converts the dresser into a kitchen island as a variation to the project. Style on the Side fits the pieces together to create an amazing dining room sideboard out of two unfinished wood columns from a lumberyard and adds some shelves to transform them into a stylish wall unit. The use of Minwax Water-Based Wood Stain custom colors illustrates the personal artistic flair that can be added to any living room area.

The "Minwax Stain & Clear Finish Guide" can be found in the middle insert of the booklet to show the wide range of stain and protective clear finish options available.

Do-it-yourselfers can get a free copy of the 2006 issue of the Minwax "Easy Weekend Projects" booklet beginning in September at home improvement stores nationwide, through Minwax.com, or by writing to Easy Weekend Projects Offer, P.O. Box 1211, Grand Rapids, MN 55745-1211.

For product information, wood finishing tips and project ideas, please visit the Minwax web site at minwax.com.