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Bar, Bookcase, or Buffet: Bland to Bronze!
That’s a lot of b’s, but this project turned out really well. The poor, unloved thing started out as someone else’s mistake (boo-boo, if you need another b or two). It was a mid-century bookcase made...
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Antique Acanthus Wreath: Ring Pulls to Bling Pulls
The antique dresser was really nice. Very well constructed, with roomy drawers, interesting legs, and no repairs to be made. It was scratched and dull brown, as they generally are at that age when...
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Mirrored Bar Cart: A Reflection of Hospitality, Beauty, and Time
Picture yourself at a party. There’s the hostess, with a smiling bright face, leading you to a cart brimming with luscious cool drinks and adult beverages for you. Picture a big lucite ice bucket with...
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Empire Dresser: Meant to Be For Me (to paint)
The style is well-known. The chunky red mahogany curved massiveness of American Empire style. Always veneered, almost always chipped, sometimes irreparably. Many of them handmade, but so old and well...
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Art, Furniture and Chocolate: A Vintage French Cabinet Becomes a Delicious...
I have a passion for applying paint. Any paint to anything. Canvases, furniture, accessories, walls, whatever. I would actually rather be applying paint to canvases all the time, but since there is no...
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Vintage Eggplant Henredon Dressers: Spanish Revival Revived
A lot of mediterranean design went on in the 1970′s. Chunky, clunky, and massive seemed to be the look of the day, with a reference to Spanish style motifs and patterns. Many companies made these...
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