1960's Bassett Dinning Set

We bought this retro Bassett dinning set for $150 and after some cleaning and polishing we were able to sell it on Craigs List today for $ 325. I love it when we come across furniture that doesn't need to be refinished in order to be sold at a profit. Michelle recovered the chairs in a retro styled fabric from Hobby Lobby she also covered the back board of the china hutch with the same fabric. We had a lot of interest in this set and it sold fast.

THRIFT STORE DINNING SET

Michelle bought this battered table for $20 at one of our favorite thrift store's it had a solid wood top and I knew it could be beautiful again.

So I stripped it back to raw wood and sanded it smooth....Why is Daisy sniffing the table leg??? I bet the previous owners of this table had a cat.....Daisy's arch enemy

Michelle found these Duxbury style chairs at another thrift store for $35 they were wobbly and needed re-gluing but after re-gluing and clamping over night they were decent again. I sanded the chairs and painted them with BERH's Oregano Spice semi-gloss paint.

Here is the finished set...the table top was stained with Minwax English Chestnut stain and then received 4 coats of Minwax satin finish polyurethane....the polyurethane was sanded with 220 sandpaper between coats.

This turned out Great , I love that shade of green it really looks Great and we sold it quickly and on to the next piece.

HAZEL THE 3rd

This desk started out as a thrift store find and the chair was also a thrift store find, both piece's needed help.

Really liked the different compartment's in the hutch top. The chair was really sturdy but very dirty and surprisingly comfortable.

Sherwin-Williams Hazel is the paint color for the desk & chair.

We recovered the seat with a black foilage print.

Black hardware looks sharp with this color.

Black metal shoe's on the front legs.

Finished desk and chair look great.

THRIFT STORE DRESSER

Bought this dresser at a local thrift store and stripped the top and stained it with ebony stain and then polyurethaned it. Sanded the dresser and drawer faces and painted them a color that Glidden calls Swiss coffee white, anyways it turned out nice and is for sale on CraigsList now.

TRIPLE WHITE BEDROOM SET

We paint and sell a lot of black dresser sets and I have wanted to do an all white set for some time now and we bought this set that I would guess is from the fifties or sixties and it received the triple white treatment...that is everything was painted white. I think it turned out great and we sold it quickly which is always awesome.

BLACK OAK BUFFET REFINISH

This buffet had seen better days, it had been used and abused. We stripped the top and sanded and filled everything else. Repainted buffet and drawers with Glidden Onyx Black paint and the top also received 4 coats of Minwax satin finish polyurethane all the hardware and pulls were cleaned,primed and painted semi-gloss black. This piece was so heavy it is on wheels so it can be moved without picking it up.

A Desk named Hazel II

I'm guilty of being a copy cat...I saw a desk painted this color at another site and wanted to paint one this color also. The color is a Sherwin-Williams color named Hazel and I just think it's a cool color. The desk is a 8 drawer dual pedestal desk that we picked up at a local antique store and the chair was a garage sale purchase from earlier this summer. I painted the chair to match and recovered it with a retro looking black square design fabric. The desk is photographed outside because I couldn't capture the color inside with or without a flash. The desk is currently listed on Craigs list for only $175.00. To see the original Hazel follow this link to Julie's Blog.

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