A trip to Door County in Wisconsin has often yielded us treasures. Well, treasures to be that is. This one. This carved end table was sitting, as you can see, in a consignment warehouse. This consignment shop appears to be a quaint little shop on the main drag. But if you walk on through to the back, you will discover a huge warehouse full of furnture from days gone by - tossed aside just waiting for someone to see its potential. I happen to be that person. This one was pretty to begin with. It had a glass top, so I'm guessing that's hwy it was tossed aside and considered outdated. BEFORE Materials List (affiliate links in BOLD for your convenience) Pure & Original Greek Sky Classico CrystaLac's grain filler and black satin CrystaLac Top Continue reading
“The Blueprint”
Furniture Flipping Blueprint (a 24/7 Online Membership Site for Furniture Artisans) ENROLLMENT OPENS APRIL 27 For enrollment details >>> The Furniture Flipping Blueprint Join the Blueprint Newsletter for advance notice and other great info. Do you refinish or redesign furniture - or desire to? This is your chance to learn the ins and outs at your own pace correctly from start to finish. Come flip with us! The Furniture Flipping Blueprint Continue reading
A Shiny New Dresser for our Master
Sponsored Post Some would correct my title and say I should use the term "chest of drawers" but I'll stick with how I was raised and use the word "dresser" - since that is what I've always heard and said. I still say "pop" instead of "soda" much to the chagrin of my grandsons too. We transplanted from Michigan to Wisconsin but I still proudly carry my roots to this new soil without regret. (No mixed metaphores here) So "dresser" it is. I discovered a new product recently - Retique It. Michele, the owner of Retique It, had mentioned the product a couple of times on our Facebook Forum, Furniture Flipping Forum, so I struck up a conversation with her to find out more. She ended up sending me a whole kit to try out. I looked around my stash of furniture for Continue reading
“From Messed Up to Dressed Up” An Accent Table Update
"Clarissa" Just before I opened up my new membership site, Furniture Flipping Forum, I put together a three day course showing how to take an all wood accent table "from messed up to dressed up." It was a big challenge because it was in very rough shape to begin with and took longer to prep this piece than anticipated. The old varnish was thick and all crackled with parts falling off because it was so old and dried out. Pieces were falling off and there were gouges and loose veneer. Every time I look at it I stare in wonder how something so unattractive can be turned into a masterpiece. But when you learn the steps, it can be done with a bit of elbow grease and know how...with lots of patience. If I hadn't planned on providing this three day course to those interested in Furniture Flipping Continue reading
“Augusta” Coffee Table Opts for an Old-World Style
#sponsored Different Products, Different Techniques, Same Old-World Look Augusta, a long coffee table, was originally part of a trio - her children were refinished in an old world style but with different products. See Cora and Nora's transformation here. I only have one before picture and it's of Nora, the matching end table: Augusta and her 2 matching pieces came home with us from an estate sale two summers ago. They were crammed into our van, taken home and sat in our basement for more than a year waiting to be given new life. No one else wanted the three pieces. I set my price, made my bid and got them easier than I expected. I had no problem envisioning how I wanted them to look. From the start knew I Continue reading
Did someone saaayyy, “Bombe”?
#sponsored My DD tagged me on a FB bombé chest ad. So we drove out to take a look. As I was looking at it, the lady told me she kept getting "no shows" and was so tired of people saying they'd come by to take a look and then never show or message her. She took $10 off just because she was happy I showed up! They just don't show up. I've experienced that same thing over and over too. Hundreds on our Forum tell the same tale. People message me and say they are coming to buy a piece and then don't show up. Only one out of half a dozen lately bothered to let me know something came up or they changed their mind. Not long after my DH's knee surgery, I had two people make appointments to buy three pieces in one day, so we spent a couple of hours prepping Continue reading
Steam Punk Mixed Media Nightstand for DH
#sponsored While shopping at a Restore in MI We happened upon their 50% off furniture day. I found a three drawer nightstand that would be perfect for my DH's (darling hubby) side of the bed. I already had one that I had repainted for my side of the bed and he had my mom's little antique table that wasn't nearly big enough for him and all his junk...all his precious posessions. He needed drawers to hide all his stuff, so this at $20 fit the bill. And of course I have to start with the before: There is so much to tell about about this one. Lot's of improvisation, creativity, and experimentation was called for, and I'm glad it turned out well because it was for my DH's Christmas gift. I used a ton of resources for this project - Continue reading
A Christmas Gift for Jillian
My DD, Jillian, is my Social Media Specialist for my furniture flipping business and is way under paid. Picture her holding up a sign that says, "I work for paint." Not to mention the patience her DH, Taylor, has shown in regard to her time spent on the forum. So I figured I'd grab one of the pieces she's hinted that she'd like to have one day with a, "So...what do you plan to do with that piece?" We find so many cool pieces, and she spends so much time on my social media accounts, how could I not paint her something for Christmas? So here is the "before." Nothing special, just an old outdated three tiered plant stand. BUT, "nothing special" can be so easily turned into, "This is amazing," with a little paint and Continue reading
6 Adirondack Chairs Cloned for Christmas
Christmas Time is a GREAT Time to DIY To buy an Adirondak chair, just one chair, will set you back about $50...EACH. Jillian and I wanted to go in together to get my DD, her sister, a set of Ardirondak chairs, but they were out of our price range. Well, one isn't, but six? No way. We love her, but $300 is a bit steep for us. So, Jillian found some hither and yon, advertised on Craig's List and FB, used, beat up and for a decent price. I already had the supplies, so we got busy and fixed, sanded, painted, dry brushed and topcoated all the chairs to match. Our guys, Mark and Taylor, repaired and scraped and sanded off the old paint. Then we primed with our HomeRight sprayer. And then painted with our HomeRight sprayer. We mixed several colors to get the blue Continue reading
An MCM Road Rescue by the DH
#sponsored DH brought home a side of the road freebie last summer. 14 months ago I cleaned and sanded it. A few months ago I primed it. Just yesterday I finally got to painting it. Go Bold or Go home, right? So here it is in the raw...sad and unwanted, tossed out for the garbage truck. It's a Mersman MCM. And it was Uggg-Lee. Here is my disclaimer regarding the MCM label in case anyone cares: When researching this table, we could find nothing that placed it into the mid-century or mid-century modern category. Though Mersman tables are plenteous, there aren't any out there like this one. So who knows? Mid-Century...Mid-Century Modern? Vintage? Antique? Either way, it's old and not from this era. Continue reading
