Have you ever tackled tricky stains or woods that just seem to bleed through everything? Cait from Little City Farmhouse has a few tips to share with you! She picked Sunday Tea and Clear Coat for this mahogany bench transformation.

  I am so excited to share this bench with you - it was a true labor of love and experimentation! A friend gave me this bench in all it's deep mahogany glory. Any painters know what mahogany means - bleed through! I wanted to go light with this bench so I needed to seal it first to prevent bleed through in my finish. I had been reading from several other painters that they had used Clear Coat to seal in bleed through. As a devout Shellac user, I have to admit I doubted this theory! That was until I tried it...and it worked! After a coat of Clear Coat, I gave the bench two coats of Sunday Tea in the All-in-One formula. With the built in topcoat of the All-in-One formula, I didn't give it any additional topcoats. If you want to add an additional topcoat you definitely can, but this bench is in my dining room and I have two kids - it gets bumped and banged and sat on daily and is still in perfect condition! To purchase Clear Coat and Sunday Tea, click here!