The Hill Family Desk - Custom Refinish Before & After

We have made some wonderful friends through our blog and through our furniture. The Hill family is just such a family. They brought us this old school desk that had been painted red at some point in time but needed a nice face lift to turn it into an elegant keepsake. This piece has many memories so a restoration was on the menu.

It cleaned up nicely if I do say so myself. The sharp black against the restored wood surface adds a nice touch. It looks like we still have our Christmas wreaths up in the pictures but this is not true friends. What is true is that I am playing catch up. Through my lack of posting it appears that The Frosted Gardner painting as slowed down but oh so not true. I have a list of completed pieces that include a few of our own projects as well as custom projects that include a few chandeliers, a red armoire, a few tables, and my sister-in-law's working table she uses in her quilting studio. Thanks for being patient as I dig out of my hole!

The Clementine Dresser - Custom Refinish Before & After

My parents were spending a weekend up in Park City and walked into a consignment shop and spotted this little wash stand. My mom has started gathering pieces in hopes that next summer they will be able to put in a bunk house next to the ranch house. The family has grown so much we just need more room. She opted for this green color that compliments her taste of colors that tend to be more on the rich side. Perhaps this will sit between a couple of twin beds or maybe as a nightstand in another bedroom. I think that the original hardware keeps the vintage look and feel and I always adore pieces sitting up on little legs.

Happy Wednesday!

The Josephine Dresser - Custom Refinish Before & After

Do you see a red trend here? Seems that we have been doing quite of bit of it recently! This particular piece is for my parent's ranch house and my mom loves red furniture. It took a few different reds to match it perfectly. Red can be a hard match. Some of my favorites on this piece is the little oval mirror on the sweet back splash and the twisty front legs that are hand carved. How do we know this is how they were made? If you look closely you will see the right one is just a bit bigger than the left. I adore the sweet original flower embellishments on each door. I think they tie in perfectly with the original floral hardware. I cannot wait to see this in its home next summer when my parents complete their bunk house next to the ranch house. We are heading up that way for the Thanksgiving holiday and the barn has been completed and I cannot wait to see it.

Happy weekend friends!

Chalkboard Restore

We worked on this little chalkboard for a client who purchased it from Etsy. When she received the frame it was in pretty bad shape and the chalkboard paint did not work all that well. So we repainted the frame and roughed it up a bit to glorify all of the beautiful details. We repainted the chalkboard and I was so itching to write something on the perfectly dark black surface. However, it was not mine to play with so it was delivered nice and clean.
Up next week have been working on a few pieces for my parent's ranch house. They are vintage and wonderful and fun colors that were neither black or white!

The Red Bed - Custom Finish Before & After

A bed in red. What color is better on this fine fall day. The side rails were missing but not for long. Mike hand made the rails and painted them in our clients color choice. Red. Have a wonderful week friends. Happy trick or treating.

The Nana Chandelier - Custom Refinish Before & After

We refinished this chandelier for my parents to take to their ranch house to hang over the dining room table. See . . . we don't paint EVERYTHING white. Sometimes we do the polar opposite.

The Annalee Dresser - Custom Refinish Before & After

So there are a few of these little french provencial dressers with the gold trim and the slightly yellowed finish. Well these little ladies sure clean up nicely when they are dusted with a coat of white paint for a fresh clean feminine look.

It just works. White always works!

The Sylvia Dresser - Custom Refinish Before & After

From totally rough and shabby to a new life shiny as a red apple. Ha!

We are awaiting the black handles to arrive but we could not wait to take pictures because this has already been picked up and ready for its new home!

I think this picture emphasizes the curves in the drawers so nicely!

Nothing like cleaning up an old dresser with curves and legs and keyholes. Thank you to Sylvia for letting us be a part of it all.

Mike informed me that our fireplace mantel has been completed and now to just haul it here and decide which wall it belongs on and get it mounted and ready to go. I am so excited to share the reveal!