New Vanity Pictures

Hey everyone! This weekend has been absolutely beautiful outside, even with the threat of rain. I can't remember the last time I went pumpkin picking when it was 80 degrees outside at the end of October. Not only did I have fun doing that with the family yesterday, we went over to the besties for her open house! For a lot of you that follow me personally on Facebook you know that she had a house fire in March and everything was pretty much destroyed. She was displaced over the summer while her house was being rebuilt, so I was so happy to finally see her surrounded by family and friends having a great time in her newly finished house!

Side note: Girl has some good taste! Her house is put together so well! ;)

This visit gave me the opportunity to see the vanity with the mirror and hardware on and actually looking like a usable piece of furniture. The only thing left is for me to paint and distress her stool and get some fabric to redo the seat. 

Remember how dingy and flat it looked before? Look at it now, it's beautiful!

After soaking the original hardware in some mineral spirits to remove the rust, my BF choose a copper colored hammered texture spray paint for the finishing touches.

Even though there is chipping in the veneer and some scratches on the vanity, leaving it as is and restoring the finish keeps the character of the piece.

I hope you all enjoyed the restoration of this piece just as much as I did. If you have a piece of furniture that needs a bit of TLC, please let me know! My elbow grease is rather affordable! 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

~ Susan ~

Reorganization!

Hey guess what I'm doing? Oh yeah... reorganizing. This house is filled to the brim with furniture and it needs a place to go. I literally have furniture on my trailer, on my garage floor, in the back of my finished basement and in this unfinished bedroom in the basement. I can't take it anymore!!!! I simply cannot get anything done with nowhere to do anything! 

This use to be my storage room before I started to acquire all the furniture, then I just started storing unfinished pieces in there too. Now that the weather is getting colder and the garage is becoming off limits (papa grizzly bear want's his man cave back) I need a room to work and store unfinished and finished pieces. I think I'm going to add some cool things in there to make it not so... concrete? I can't do a whole lot but being surrounded by cold gray walls and plastic covered insulation is LAME.

 Oh yeah... you can commence the poking fun now...

The pieces of paper on the concrete wall are labeling what is in that tower of shelves. 

No, that is not a floral ghost in the corner of the room either. It's my Christmas tree with all the fake metal branches hot glued in. I mean, hello... who wants to unpack, rearrange limbs for an hour and then pack it back up a few weeks later every year? Not me...

The good thing is I will be done with this tonight and will be able to kick this thing right back into gear asap!!!

This makes me and my OCD very happy.

I will post a new studio picture when I get everything done! Have a great weekend guys!

~ Susan ~

Set of 6 Dining Chairs & Table

Updated: As of this morning, 11/16, the chairs were sold as is! I put them up on Craigslist and within minutes had someone wanting to buy them. The buyer is going to paint them herself in due time. Hopefully I will be able to get some "after" pictures from her! The table below is still available, though I believe that may be restyled and heading to a friends house here in a few weeks. :)

Good morning everyone! Last night I added a few more pieces of furniture to the Retro Restyling Family. In this post though I want to focus on a set of 6 dining chairs and a possible table to match. I have 2 captain chairs and 4 regular chairs. They aren't heavy, but they are so cool because they are all hand crafted and carved and pure wood with a light stain. Taking a longer look at them you can see that they aren't identical but very similar. These are available for sale as is, or if you would like them painted and distressed, that is available too.

Here is the detailing on the chair back.

And here is the detailing on the legs and front of the seat.

What great curves! 

If you are interested in this set of chairs and don't have a table to match, I might be able to pair these with the rectangular table below that I already have prepped for priming.

Here's the legs. They are sanded down really well, that's why they look splotchy.

Here is the table top, it's sanded down too.

This table doesn't have a leaf but is 60" long and 43" deep. It will fit 6 chairs and is a sturdy heavy piece.

Please contact me if you are interested in the items above, together or separated! Thanks for checking out my blog and have a wonderful rest of your day!

~ Susan ~