Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2014
FURNITURE MAKE OVERS before and after 1
All the wonderful BEFORE & AFTERS you are about to see look so amazing in person,
and the students that preformed the work were outstanding.

How many of you would like to attend a furniture makeover weekend?
Well the PR Guy here and the LNT Group in Merritt coordinated that exact thing,
and I was the chosen teacher.
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| we added drawer stops, learned some bled blocking tips, and added a graphic transfer on this dresser |
18 students, some with multiple projects, 2 days, almost every tool I own,
and with years of experience we gotter done!
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| it was stripped, cleaned, painted grey, clear waxed, then dark waxed. It is off to the upholster soon! |
The week before the class, students started to email photos and ideas of that they would like to do.
When this chairs BEFORE pic showed up George started to panic, but I wasnt worried in the least.
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| vintage high chair painted in a cherry red was heading back to Prince George to be a display piece in a floral shop |
We traveled over 2 hours to get to our destination but some ladies traveled much farther to join us.
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| simple vintage chair given a new life with a light turquoise spray, sanding, and waxing. |
We did lots of color mixing and I showed students how to thin and strain paint for spraying.
Any one who wanted to try their hand at using the paint gun could also try it out.
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| coordinating wallpaper was added in the back and you can see more of the detail of this cabinet now that it is lighter |
We wallpapered and waxed, we stripped some pieces, we stained a few pieces,
we painted and polyed, but best of all ...

I had a blast running non stop repairing things, adding things, making suggestions,
and simply helping everyone leave with a beautiful new pieces of furniture they would be
proud to display in their homes.
and simply helping everyone leave with a beautiful new pieces of furniture they would be
proud to display in their homes.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
bamboo furniture
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| bamboo furniture |
Mai Tais, Hurricanes along with Rum Sportsmen are all fantastic fruity drinks and create images associated with tropical heaven, but just providing these refreshments wont produce that spectacular tiki bar atmosphere you are after. You need to have a excellent place to ingest your rum-related drink of choice. If you want the idea of soothing on a sand beach, along with pristine orange waves lapping with the shore, then this tiki bar might be the excellent addition to your own basement or perhaps backyard.
Photograph a tiki bar over a tropical area - every thing there can be repeated inside your tiki hut, even though you live a huge number of miles from your ocean. Organic materials, which include wicker, bamboo sheets, and sultry plants, are very important to any Tiki bar. The particular first place to start is by using building the particular bar itself. There are several tiki hut plans available on the internet. However, you can certainly produce a fun along with entertaining tiki-themed place without a bar, while most people consider tiki they make a tiki bar.
There is a number of options available with regards to furnishing your parking space. Youll want to take into account the size, be it indoors as well as out, and exactly how you plan to work with the room. The options range from bar barstools to thatch umbrellas in order to bamboo paneling. Contemplate visiting your preferred tiki bar for motivation as youre intending a tiki-inspired bar of your family.
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| bamboo furniture plans free |
Besides furniture, there is certainly one more crucial item on an outdoor tiki bar: tiki torches. These types of ubiquitous warp speed torches are a must-have pertaining to nighttime drinks in your garden. Though several climates might not afford the luxurious of outdoor watering holes, nothing can easily top a yard tiki hut. The relaxation associated with sitting outside the house, sipping the fruity tropical drink under playful tiki torches is one of the greatest parts of having a backyard tiki bar.
Ultimately, dont forget to embellish your new bar using appropriate completing touches, including carved timber tiki masks for you to vintage-style Polynesian bar indicators. Whether the seem youre going with regard to is that of an exotic oasis or even a classic Forties tiki lounge, you are able to recreate these feelings in your garden or cellar with the appropriate tiki furnishings. Anything at all tropical as well as Polynesian will prove to add an island component to your fresh tiki bar. Paddles, surfboards, seashells, bamboo exercise mats, and sultry plants are a few of the choices youll be able to turn the backyard as well as basement right into a tropical retreat.
Clearly, redecorating a tiki bar moves choice past making sure that you might have enough tequila. To recap, a number of essentials that you can consider getting for your tiki bar consist of:
Monday, February 10, 2014
Guild Furniture Show Starts Friday
The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers will be opening its Second Annual Show at Vermont Artisans Designs Gallery 2, 106 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont this Friday . There will be a reception this Friday from 5:30 to 8:00 at the gallery. Fifteen members of the Guild will be participating. I took these snapshots of some of the pieces that were already set up when I was unloading my curly redwood console table last Saturday. More picture to follow after the opening...Stop in if youre in the Brattleboro area .... Click the photos to enlarge them ..

A list of the participants and a top view of my curly redwood table

A less dramatic front view

Bill Laberges Arts and Crafts cherry desk

Steve Holmans tv cabinet and one of Mario Messinas lamps

A Macassar ebony cabinet by Johns Congdon

A mahogany bed by Bill LaBerge
LOTS more to see at the show ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Patio furniture plans free
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