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Location: Jacksonville, FL | Heres the dresser you guys are talking about
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| FLDrmRnr - 2013-04-18 7:15 PM
Heres the dresser you guys are talking about
okay THIS is bad to the bone!!!! Flipping awesome!!! |
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Location: MN | Oh why can't she post anymore??? I loved looking at her work and drooling over it. Please tell me why also. |
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Location: South East Texas | Thanks for all the nice words....but this ain't about me :)) this is about what y'all can do....whether you believe it or not. I will post some of my projects here....on this thread....but I'm hoping all of y'all hit a yard sale, flea market, thrift shop....even a dumpster or curb freebie works. Go out n find a chunka wood to redo and make yours.
I'm gonna go ahead and post the rocking chair photos on that thread. Then the latest project will be posted here. |
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Location: South East Texas | Lol I was gone....but after a few messages with Gail today she reinstated my account. Glad to be back.... |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | thejerseylilly2000 - 2013-04-18 6:47 PM Lol I was gone....but after a few messages with Gail today she reinstated my account. Glad to be back....
I didn't realize you were gone, but am sure glad you're back . You really do inspire alot of us with ideas and things that can be done |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | thejerseylilly2000 - 2013-04-18 8:47 PM Lol I was gone....but after a few messages with Gail today she reinstated my account. Glad to be back....
I think your posts are VERY inspirational. They most certainly show just what a person can do with an ugly piece of furniture. Thank you for sharing your ideas and designs.......Most artisans are not as willing to "share"........... |
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Location: Foot of the Smoky Mtns, East Tennessee | That dresser is beautiful!!
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Lover of Old Things
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Location: South East Texas | Ok first off the teal chest with picture isn't my work.....but I'm glad someone posted that chest of drawers. Because last week....when the picture started circulating.....a friend contacted me and said..."Can you do this for me?" I'd just purchased a chest of drawers almost identical a few days before at an estate sale and hadnt even given it any thought as to what I would do to it. With all the decoupaging I've done in the past....I said...YES!!!! If I'da seen that picture before she asked me if I could do it...I would have probably done one for my daughter. So....without further ado.....Here she is....I've dubbed her...."Second Chance Cowgirl" but the lady is calling it Micah's Memory Chest.
As it was when I purchased it...minus the hardware.
then step by step...sanding....staining....a clear finish.....and the drawers sanded down...repaired with a tad of glue and a few tiny nails. just so the dove tails are sturdy joints again. Then I stained the very edges of the drawers so that what wood shows will be the same color as the rest of the chest.
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | teehaha - 2013-04-18 8:53 PM thejerseylilly2000 - 2013-04-18 6:47 PM Lol I was gone....but after a few messages with Gail today she reinstated my account. Glad to be back.... I didn't realize you were gone, but am sure glad you're back. You really do inspire alot of us with ideas and things that can be done
I didn't either! I also am glad your back...cuz I'm going hunting for a piece of furniture! |
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Location: Washington | I think you should open a store or consignee your pieces. |
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Location: South East Texas | I'd love to have a store...but not in the cards....too much overhead to either buy or rent a building. (altho I do dream lol) I've also thought about consigning....but honestly....I love working out of my home. I keep the grandbaby three days a week...while my daughter works...and I can enjoy him....and playing with furniture at the same time. :)) Maybe later...but he's too precious not to enjoy. |
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Location: Washington | I hear what your saying Gwen. Now please address buying good antiques and bringing them back, without changing what the original maker had in mind. I have bought old pieces (75+ years old) and they had been painted white(hate white paint, worse yet red) and restoring it was my worst nightmare....until I found a place that could dunk them in stripping solution, only to find out later one should not do that? How do you decide, restore or simply change it? |
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Location: South East Texas | When I'm on the hunt...and I find something. I open and close the doors and drawers...take them out and look inside at the bones. I try to refrain from buying things that have been previously painted. Because I absolutely hate stripping....did I mention I hate stripping furniture??? Hate it!!!!! I don't like the chemicals...I don't like the mess....and I don't like the fact that 99% of the strippers don't really work all that well. Then your left with goo you have to use mineral spirits or alcohol to get off...which doesn't work either most of the time. But it does neutrilize the stripper....kinda. LOL So...I try my best to find pieces that just have the original finish on them. They are so easy to sand down.
Repairs don't bother me...as long as the piece is all there....and relatively sturdy. Loose or peeling vaneer doesn't bother me anymore...since I found out how to get it off fairly easy. a soaking wet towel...and a hot iron...along with a putty knife. After a minute or two of the hot wet iron towel treatment....that stuff peels off. It will leave your iron a mess tho. Get one that you don't plan to use on clothes.
Once a piece is sanded or stripped down....if you like the wood grain....staining and a clear finish is easy. Doesn't take long at all....If there are scars and dents that I don't like...I will fill with wood filler...and paint.
Also....I have a set price in mind...if I can't get it for that...I move on. there is always something else out there.
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Location: South East Texas | Oh....and one more thing....make sure it's all real wood!!!! that new pressed together stuff doesn't work well for much of anything. If you see pressed wood....keep moving....Unless you just love the piece and plan to just paint over the original finish with Chalk paint. I have been playing with that a little bit...and it seems to be ok stuff.
Also...anyone else out there that has advice or experience doing something...chime in. My way isn't the only way. It's what works for me. And anothers ideas or techniques may work better for someone. :))
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LOL @ ugly pieces of furniture. I seem to gravitate to those things. ;-O its like they scream...pick me...pick me!!!! |
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Location: Texas | FLDrmRnr - 2013-04-18 8:15 PM Heres the dresser you guys are talking about
Dang. Now that is amazing.
I'd love for this type of thing (furniture makeover) to catch on like other crafy-type things have caught on...I mean, *I'm* not crafty AT.ALL (I toss clothes if a button comes off) but I have a great admiration for those with the talent and patience to do it -- and I'll support them with my $$ :). |
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