Learning how to clean old wood furniture, like those fabulous finds at thrift stores and yard sales, requires patience. Just as discovering lovely furniture in a grandparent s attic can be like uncovering treasure, you ll have to dig through some grime to find the gold beneath. Clean and Review Cleaning a wood finish may include polishing, mending and touching up…
About the Inn Leave Your Stress At The Door! Moore s Old Pine Inn was originally built in 1882 and has a wonderful history. Currently the Inn includes (3) deluxe suites and (4) rooms with shared baths, a common guest parlor room, dining room, kitchen, office, (2) covered front porch areas and the Innkeepers personal quarters. For directions to the Inn, see the Contact…
As a child, you voraciously turned the pages of Gulliver s Travels,you adored the Smurfs and the Oompa Loompas, and you could disappear into your dollhouse for hours on end. You are a lover of the diminutive, an avid collector of antique miniature dolls, portraits, furniture, and other tiny delights. Feed your colossal obsession with wee things. Pick out finely crafted…
A distressed and antiqued piece of furniture can add a unique charm to any room. And if you do it yourself, the process of distressing and antiquing furniture is relatively inexpensive. And best of all, it’s not really difficult! With a bit of liquid sander/deglosser, spray primer, spray paint, sandpaper, and stain, you can turn virtually any piece of wood furniture…
Vintage Furniture Tips by Klinginfo.com After five years of talking to people through Klinginfo.com and also our personal experiences with vintage furniture, we decided to share with you these helpful thoughts: First on the list are some tips on cleaning and refinishing vintage furniture. Second, what can be done with vintage wooden beds? Finally, we would like to…
Los Angeles is nothing if not a city of style. In fact just take a walk down any number of streets in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, or even Santa Monica and you’ll probably be overwhelmed by both the quality and quantity of fashionable folks roaming the sidewalks. But do you ever wonder how people do it? How they can keep up with the joneses of trends and afford our ridiculous…
Decor Direct has a fine collection of vintage servers, dining room cabinets, display cabinets and bar cabinets for your entertaining needs. From Scandinavian servers to fifties styles. Vintage China Cabinets Authentic and charming! Check out the antique cash register that is still functional. Enrich your environments with whimsical vintage decor. Furnish vintage and…
Your drive to continue rollin fuels your fire to keep turning, spin over that next mountain, and down the valley again. A wagon wheel evokes those kinds of feelings, prompting buyers to keep the antique close by to touch or hold on to as a reminder to keep going. Check out a wagon wheel chandelier made out of hickory, oak, and ash, hanging from a 2-foot chain with…
Franchise operator: Bryan Davis Fax: Austin, TX Location Hours in Austin Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Navis Pack & Ship of Austin is an independently owned and operated business in the expanding Navis network. Navis is the premiere provider of packing and shipping services for difficult-to-ship items in North America. The proprietor of this location…
It was about two years ago that accountant Nancy Eatough discovered a more creative passion while out shopping with a friend. “We started going to flea markets and seeing the furniture, and something clicked, ” Eatough said. She quickly became fascinated with restoring and repainting vintage furniture and, after running out of space in her own house, began selling…
Aaron Wong KILANAS When Muhammad Abdul Hafiz Mahmus and his friends would pull up to industrial sites and warehouses across Brunei-Muara three years ago, workers on site would appear baffled as the band of youth voiced their request. They pointed to wooden pallets – cheap, disposable and badly treated support structures which items are often loaded on for transport…
Vintage decor, in lieu of recognizable pieces from popular catalogs, adds the kind of wow factor to a yard that is completely unique to the person or people who live there. The husband and wife team created the Loveseat App, an online marketplace of vintage and stylish used furniture, after finding out how difficult it was to buy and sell furniture in conjunction…
Jacobean (1600-1690) An English style of furniture, which is medieval in appearance with straight lines, rigid designs, sturdy construction, ornate carvings and a dark finish. Much of the early American furniture was patterned after this style. Early American (1640-1700) Rudimentary utilitarian furniture made from local woods. It was brought from or modeled after…
How do you define furniture that’s not quite antique by the traditional definition but far from new? It’s not a cut and dry determination by any means, but lots of pieces falling into this category were made during the Depression era. In furniture terms, that constitutes the late 1920s and ‘30s spilling over into the early ‘40s. Even though lots of hoity-toity antique…
Create a cozy conversation spot centered around this pipe coffee table with industrial vintage and rustic urban vibe. It’s compact size fits ideally in today’s small studio apartments and small houses. Made from recyclable aluminum pipes, fittings and reclaimed finished sustainable wood, the coffee table melds both cool and warm elements beautifully. It features a…
Over the years, wood furniture, cabinetry, and architectural woodwork (e.g., hand railings) can become encrusted with dirt and grime. This process is accelerated when we touch items and leave a little oil behind from our skin that combines with dirt and dust to produce a significant layer on the surface of the finish. Another source of the oily/dirty grime comes from…
