furniture refurbishment
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Yellowed chest of drawers
What do you think is bright yellow? The perception of colours is purely personal. If you ask a person to choose, say, a basic colour from a colour chart, you get a surprisingly wide range of answers. That someone could choose a shade so different from the one they would choose! We tested this at an interior design school and found we could get as many shades as there were respondents. And the answers were not from the same magazine, but everything between blue and red....
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Grateful composition
White oval table top, beautiful metal legs to match and black chairs gathered around it to complement the style. I was quite happy with the restoration of the massive veneer table (link), the job was a lot of work, the end result was good, but the final positive "rivet" followed. The satisfaction of the work really only comes when you see your handiwork living in its real environment, in other people's homes! And that,...
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Fixing it
I've been a professional restorer of old furniture for four months now with a solid learn-by-doing method. In the past I have designed and made my own shelves, nails and boxes, but as a new breeze, with the guidance of my carpenter father, I now also refurbish furniture for clients. I've received design classics in shabby condition, which have then been sanded off old paint or varnish, plastered over dents and chips, and finally painted white for a fresh...
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DESIGN EYE: white paint
My mind craves white. In order to get a white clean mental decor in my apartment, it's worth having white furniture. I spent the weekend with a sudi stitch and sandpaper sanding. We've been using Hartwall wooden boxes as toy boxes - and that's what they'll continue to be - white. The first box served as a practice piece to start painting. Because I know I'm going to be doing a lot more painting myself. Painting is somehow...
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