1961 DREXEL dinning set

Michelle found this awesome mid-century piece at one of our favorite Ministry stores that sells donated furniture. This is Drexel furniture and it is of their PARALLEL design of 1961 and is just really cool. The chairs needed recovering and Michelle bought some retro looking fabric from Hobby Lobby and made the chairs look great. This set is for sale on Craigslist/Nashville/furniture for sale by owner/vintage 1961 drexel dinning table. We also have a Coffee table for sale from the same collection.

CINNAMON END TABLE

Bought this at Goodwill for $6.99 and resurfaced the top and finished the lower with cinnamon stick satin finish Glidden paint. I painted the inside of the drawer because some little person had done some art work with a crayon in it also painted the knobs with bronze metallic spray paint.

FINISHED VINTAGE DRESSERS

We finished 3 of 4 vintage dressers we bought last week end and sold one this afternoon.
Sorry about the poor photography, I'm not real good with a camera or photo editing programs.

VINTAGE DRESSER PURCHASE

Vintage furniture is just cool, we buy and sell a lot of 10 to 20 year old furniture and that's good but it is fun to work on older piece's that have character. Michelle put a post on Craigslist that we were buying dresser's,night stands, ect,ect. and a lady in Nashville needed to sell 3 of her old dressers because she was moving, she said they were old anyways we had her son send pic's from his phone to us and we went and bought them and now we are hoping more people will call us because that was a great purchase. The black buffet with the string pulls was purchased at a local thrift store.

TALL RED HUTCH

I really need to start taking photo's of our furniture before redoing them. This hutch was purchased at our Church's yard sale it was white and in need of some new paint it also had some appliques that added nothing to it, so we painted it bright red and glazed it with black, removed the appliques and the the polished brass knobs that were replaced with bronze Venetian knobs and we both loved the way it turned out it reminds us of a old public phone booth.

CABANA STAND

My Grandparents had a stand similar to this in the 60's that they put the phone on top and stored their record albums underneath, I loved to look at those old albums The Carter Sisters, Roy Clark,Johnny Cash and the likes. My Grandpa also bought albums that had been discounted, you know the ones that they would drill a little hole at the top corner to indicate that it was discounted,and they were trying to get rid of...albums like the barbershop quartet that no one ever heard of or recordings of drag racing or Calypso music by artist no one has heard of but they always had some colorful album covers. The Cabana Stripes are something I saw someone else doing on their furniture blog and I liked it and wanted to do a piece like that, also wanted to try my frog tape out on the stripes it works great nice sharp stripes. I filled the channels that the old doors slid in with good old Bondo and sanded it flat.

BLACK TOP FIX-UP

Michelle and I have bought a number of piece's that had some beautiful stained wood and really messed up top surfaces and some times it just makes sense to resurface the top in black and leave everything else alone. I personally like this look and have sold all the piece's we have did this to. Check out the pic's below, what do you think??