She's A Turquing Girl...

Sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do and in this case Julie from Alchemy Vintage Market decided she needed to start turquing*...not to be mistaken for twerking.  I'm not sure if she twerks or not.  Anything's possible, I suppose.  Turquing means she threw off the shackles of Winter white and decided she needed to be more welcoming to Spring by painting this big boy...wait for it...TURQUOISE!!  (I totally made up that word turquing.  REMEMBER THAT!  I am claiming it as my own.  If you use it, you MUST credit me.)

Julie found this china cabinet at her local Goodwill.  She told me that this is the biggest piece she tackled but luckily not the most difficult.  She spent the most time just staring at it and trying to imagine what it wanted to be.  (I do that still with my kids.  Especially the oldest one.  You've met him here before.  Follow him on Twitter.  He wants to reach 500 followers and by goodness, I'm going to help him get there!  Be sure and use the hashtag #yourmommysentme when you do.  See Zachy?  Mommy will always be there for you.)   

Back to the flip...Julie knows that painting furniture white or any variation of that shade sells.  Her clients clamor for it.  In this case though, she really wanted this piece to stand out.  With some encouragement from her friend, a fellow painter, she bought some turquoise paint and got busy with it.  She turned the oops paint into DIY chalk paint and painted the entire piece.  

She had to replace two glass shelves in the piece but opted NOT to replace the glass in the doors.  Julie said all of those glass pieces were broken accidentally by the two strong guys she sent to retrieve this piece.  She jokes, "Never send a man to do a woman's job!"  (I bet those two guys are happy to hear her say that!  Between you and me they probably broke the glass on purpose so she won't ask them to move furniture again.  That's just a guess.  Totally plausible though, don't ya think?)
 
The black/white damask* is wrapping paper purchased from Walmart.  She attached it with adhesive spray.  Julie kept the original hardware but updated it in an oil rubbed  bronze.  The metal meshwork in the doors was also painted.  (*Damask - I could call somebody that and totally get away with it.  It kind of sounds like an insult when it's really not.  Try it.  Hey damask!  Hehehehe...I literally LOL'ed while typing that.  I need to get out more.)

Let's take a look at this ginormous cabinet, shall we?

 













Lovely!!   Well done Julie, well done!  That does make me feel more Springy just looking at it.  I love it.  

Alchemy Vintage Market is based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  You might recall when I featured a gorgeous desk she previously did.  That one was not turqued.  It was white.  Or a shade thereof.  Click RIGHT  HERE to see that one.   Head on over to Alchemy Vintage Market's Facebook page and let her know you saw her on Furniture Flippin'.

Thanks so much Julie for sharing your fantastic furniture flip!  Keep on turquing girl!   

Can you believe we are half-way through a week of flips already?  None of which are my own.  Yes, I slacked all winter with the furniture flippin' much to my husband's dismay.  Only NOW does he gripe about it and the fact that we can only fit ONE car in the garage because too much furniture is lining the walls.  Uh, well, WINTER'S OVER pal!  They can sit outside now, right?  (The cars...not the furniture.)  But, look!  I'm back at it.  I started stripping veneer last weekend.  It felt so good to be out there, listening to '80's rock and using my iron for something other than ironing clothes.  If the dryer doesn't get the wrinkles out of our clothes, then why should I?  That's not my job.  My last name's not Kenmore.  There you have it.  I'm signing off now because half of you left as soon as I revealed the after pic.

See you tomorrow!

~ Stephanie

What Must Her Neighbors Think?

Oh, Melissa of Twice Loved Gems!  How I do get a kick out of you.  Let me tell you a little bit about Melissa.  She is all about the follow through.  I think it's been twice now that she has shared "What Would You Do?" pictures with us on our Furniture Flippin' Facebook page and with each one she turns it into something fantastic.  We're doing a follow up on one of those today.  Remember this one?

First though, I must share with you a picture Melissa took of her furniture stash.  You know what that is!  You've got one, I've got one, and check out the one Melissa has.  This was snapped the day she was trying to get organized.  

What must her neighbors think?  Hehehehe...I'm thinking of my own garage.  When I was doing the Park Ridge Project I had the furniture for it all set up in my garage and a young lad of 5 years old walked in, took a look around and proclaimed, "This is a nice house!".   Then another time, a friend of my neighbor's strolled over looking for her.  I was busy working on a garage full of furniture.  I offered this stranger my phone to call the neighbor and made chit chat with her while she was waiting for her to pick up.  Once my neighbor answered the phone, the woman said, "Hey, where are you?  I'm at your neighbor's house and she is trying to sell me some furniture!".  I never did close a sale that day.  Drats!  Anyway, if your garage looks like Melissa's, then take solace in the fact that you are perfectly normal.  Just like me & Melissa.

Okay, today's flip.  Your color suggestions for this hutch ranged from light cream and grays, to red.  Quite a few of you suggested red.  What bold and daring people you are!  

Melissa writes, "We got to work removing all the wooden and metal hardware.  Disassembled the glass and what ever those cross bar things are.  Sanded, filled, fixed, sanded some more.  Primed, sanded blah, blah, blah.  You know the drill.  After that we painted on a color called Sliced Cucumber.  I love a top that can be stained so we went with one of my favorites, Jacobean.  I couldn't decide on what to do with the openings on top so I tried my hand (for the first time ever) at chicken wire.  Well, let me tell you it's not easy and you get scraped up.  Not a fan."
 
Melissa then antique glazed it with two different specialty finishes, Black Coffee and Cast Bronze from "good old Martha". She used a wipe on poly seal.  Melissa purchased some gorgeous new hardware to finish it off. 

 



"The top is smooth like butta, storage is amazing and I am a proud momma", writes Melissa.  

As well she should be!  It's gorgeous!  AND, it's for sale.  
Twice Loved Gems is based in Goodyear, Arizona.  If you live near there, too, then check out the Craiglist ad and buy it.  You can visit Melissa on the Twice Loved Gems blog for more examples of her stellar work.  Do you recall when we featured that stunning vanity?  You can also find her and Twice Loved Gems on their Facebook page.  Get over there, give them a "like" and let them know you saw them on Furniture Flippin'!  

Let's take a look at the complete flip...

Beautiful!  Thanks so much Melissa for sharing with us your "What Would You Do?" pic and the completed piece!  

That brings to a close another week of Furniture Flippin'.  Five more pieces of furniture saved from certain doom.  There's still time to get your flips in before the turn of the century.  Whatcha waiting for?  Here's your invitation!  Email me at furnitureflippin@yahoo.com .  In the meantime, talk back!  There's a comment section right below to accommodate witty banter.

See you on Monday!

~ Stephanie 

Help Me Vonda. Help, Help Me Vonda...

In a perfect world we would all have a friend the likes of Vonda from Antiqued With Love.  A friend we could call on when we want a piece of furniture redone and don't want to do it ourselves.  I fall into that friend category but for some reason my friends bring me bananas and ask me to turn it into banana bread.  Nobody has asked me to stretch my painting abilities to encompass making over a china cabinet.  Vonda's friend did though.  But Vonda's got oodles of talent in the painting department and I have bread pans and a secret banana bread recipe.  Hehehehe...which reminds me...Katalin, your bread is still in my freezer.  Come pick it up.

Vonda's friend gave her free rein on it.  She just asked that it be painted in Khaki.  So, Vonda gave it a good sanding and cleaning.  She then applied an all over stain block primer and started painting.

Vonda writes, " I wanted certain parts to stand out so that's what I painted differently.  I stained the inside a dark walnut so the gorgeous detail in the door would pop! Before it was painted, you could barely see the faint detail that is on the drawer, but it was beautiful, so I wanted it to be seen."

She hand painted the khaki color inside the details. After it was all dry, Vonda lightly distressed.   She applied dark wax to the piece which made the details stand out even more.  

Let's take a look at the stunning after of this piece...

Isn't that gorgeous?  Well done!  Beats the heck out of what I created for my friend...although in my defense you can eat what I made.  You can't eat a china cabinet even if you are a woodchuck because woodchucks don't eat wood nor do they chuck it.  

 
Let's take another look at the details of this gorgeous redo...
you might recall seeing Vonda's work here before.  Remember the sweet Owl chest of drawers she did?  Then she painted that whimsical vanity that we all coveted.   

You can find Vonda on her Antiqued With Love Facebook page.  Be warned though that she has TONS of awesome furniture flips on there.  So, you better take a beverage with you and leave a note for your family, because you'll be there awhile.  While you are there, tell her Furniture Flippin' sent you.  

Thanks so much Vonda for sharing your remarkable furniture flip!  

So concludes another week on "As The Furniture Turns".  We will take a brief break for the weekend and see you back on here on Monday.  In the meantime, send in your flip!  Email before/after pictures and a ton of details to furnitureflippin@yahoo.com .  

Have a safe weekend!

~ Stephanie

 

A Divine Dining Room Intervention...

Imagine this.  You have a dining room with very unique furnishings.  Very unique, very detailed and very beautiful.  Then you have this...it's not ugly.  There is nothing wrong with it...except it doesn't belong in the same room with this...

What would you do?  Well, if you were me, you'd probably do a lame-o paint job on it and call it a day.  But, if you were smart like the owners of this magnificient dining room set are, you'd call Dennis at Cripple Creek Woodworks.  

"What can he do?", you ask.  Well, he'd remove the doors and the arch.  He'd add Gothic arch doors and a frieze that matches the wood on the back legs of the chairs.  Then, he'd replace the drawer fronts, adding a detail that matched the frieze.  Finally, he'd paint the cabinet with milk paint to match, but use acrylic for the gold.  

After all of that was said and done...you'd end up with this...

How is THAT for a transformation?  Sure in the heck beats my idea of a new paint job.  But, then I'm not a master craftsman.  Dennis is.  I've shown you his work before, remember how he found two metal table bases that were missing their glass tops and he transformed them?  Or, how about the time he took salvaged materials and made a mirror that sold IMMEDIATELY?  Does that ring a bell?  (If you are new to this blog, the red highlighted sentences are links.  Click and see.) 

Cripple Creek Woodworks is located in Texas. When I take over This Old House (the TV show, not the magazine) I'm kicking out Norm and putting Dennis in his place.  I'll be the host.  You can see more of Cripple Creek Woodworks work on their website and on their Facebook page.  Dennis himself will warn you that if you are coming to his Facebook page for just woodwork, you'll be disappointed.  That being said, get over there and say "Hey!  I saw you on Furniture Flippin' and that was really a cool update."  Or, you can use your own words.  That'll work, too.

Thanks Dennis for sharing this amazing furniture flip!  Amazing doesn't even cover it adequately.  

We're off to another fantastic start to our week of Furniture Flips!  Have you submitted yours yet?  What are you waiting for?  Send me before/after pictures plus details to furnitureflippin@yahoo.com .  If you happen to have a piece of furniture that you've been thinking about redoing, but aren't sure what to do, send me that, too.  I'll share it with our crew of Furniture Flippers and you can decide whether or not to take their advice.  

See you tomorrow!

~ Stephanie

Fifty Shades Of Grey-Green...

He was just sitting there by the side of the road one day patiently waiting.  Waiting for what, he wasn't sure. He had a feeling that his life was about to change.  He was tall, well built and strong.  You could tell by looking at him that at one time he was extremely handsome and wanted.  That he must have garnered a lot of attention from the ladies that entered the room in which he once stood.  That was then.  This was now.  Now, he stood on the side of the road dejected and waiting.

Then they arrived.  A talented artist and her sister.  She took one look at him and recognized his potential.  She was going to change his life.  Yes she was...

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Hehehe...gotcha wondering, don't I??  Where is she going with this?  WHAT is SHE talking about NOW?  

I'm talking about this guy and Denise from Salvaged Inspirations.  

Well...from what I hear...she took him home, cleaned him up, whipped him into shape with the help of her mystery man and totally changed him from a tired wallflower into somebody who once again commanded the attention of the entire room.  But, you didn't HEAR THAT from ME.  

What?  You don't believe me?  Here's the proof.  I.  Don't.  Lie.

See!?!?  Next time, maybe you'll believe me when I say something.  

Anyway, I suggest you head over and just ask Denise from Salvaged Inspirations yourself.  Get the whole scoop from her DIRECTLY.  She'll tell you.  She's proud of him and I would be, too! 

While you are there do me a favor and ask her about "Stu", too!  He's involved in all of her furniture transformations.

Seriously, though, in addition to filling you in on how she did this gorgeous transformation, she has a LOT of cool tips that YOU can use.  You can also visit with her on her Facebook page.

Thanks Salvaged Inspirations for being so awesomely talented!  We love this furniture flip!

Dear readers, if you think you've seen this flip before it's because I'm running another rerun.  Call it a midwinter's break.  Although at this rate, I'm beginning to think winter will never be over.  I will be back with new flips.  It may be tomorrow or it may be next week.  I'm kind of enjoying the break.  That doesn't mean you are off the hook.  You can still submit your flips to me at furnitureflippin@yahoo.com .  Before/after pictures and all of the details.  

See you tomorrow!

~ Stephanie

We're Talking of Ercol Dressers and Why I Love This Blog...

I get so excited by the furniture makeovers that I get to feature here.  Not only by the remarkable transformations the pieces undergo, but by the talented and lovely people I get to "meet".  Every so often I get to feature a furniture artist from another country.  I find it so interesting the differences in our languages.  A few times I've had to "Google" a word that I've never heard before.  (I learned one from today's flipper that I'll use in the next paragraph.)  I also was told a short time ago by a different furniture flipper I featured that I taught her via this blog the word flippin' in regards to furniture and she uses it all the time now.  (Yay!  Totally cool!)

Today I am chuffed to introduce you to Gemma of Mariposas Painted Furniture.  She is located in the village of Middle Rasen just north of the historic city of Lincoln in the United Kingdom and we are going to take a look at the tranformation of this Erco Dresser.  I'm going to let Gemma take it from here...

Gemma wrote, "I'd been living in Madrid for two years prior to coming home and starting my new venture.  I did a course in porcelain painting while I was over there, as I love to paint.  I couldn't find a similar course back here in Lincoln so I eventually stumbled across an Autentico Paint workshop and loved the idea of painting furniture.  I had the most awesome day and got totally addicted. 

This Ercol dresser was one of a few items I got at a local auction (the first time I'd gone to an auction and bid).  I loved the experience.  I'd heard about Ercol and discovered it was one of the best quality furniture manufacturers in the UK.  This one was from their old colonial collection, very dark stain to emulate the trend in the 17th century. Their new pieces sell for thousands and this vintage piece was made of solid elm.  I got to work on it straight away using the Autentico color "Linen" in their Vintage range, which is the range made for furniture painting. The colour looked breath-taking, I painted the top (or hutch) first, while my husband stripped the work top taking the old dark stain off and revealing the beautiful natural colour and grain of the wood. 

After I'd painted with four coats, I lightly distressed before I waxed and then put three coats of Autentico clear wax on.  It was a long process as each layer has to be totally dry. We then used danish oil for the work top giving that about three coats. We added some new felt to the removable cutlery drawer and that was all done."

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Stephanie again!  Isn't that a gorgeous piece of furniture?  The details on it before just seemed lost to me in that sea of dark dark wood.  Now, they really stand out.  I love it.  

This piece sold rather quickly.  Gemma wrote, "My customer traveled up from South Wales to collect (a fair trek) as she said there's not much choice for painted furniture where she lived."  

You can follow along with Gemma on her Mariposas Painted Furniture Facebook page.  There you can see more of her stunning work.  Let her know you saw her on Furniture Flippin'.  If you live in the UK, you can see the items she currently has for sale in her Mariposas Painted Furniture Etsy shop. Check it out.  You might find something you can't live without.

Thanks so much Gemma for sharing your amazing furniture flip!  (And for teaching me the word "chuffed".)

Dear readers, if you think you've seen this flip before it's because I'm running another rerun.  Call it a midwinter's break.  Although at this rate, I'm beginning to think winter will never be over.  I will be back with new flips.  It may be tomorrow or it may be next week.  I'm kind of enjoying the break.  Now that I've said that, let me say this.  I know a lot of you come to the blog through Facebook and I really do appreciate your interaction with me on our Furniture Flippin' Facebook page.  I encourage you to leave comments here on the blog as well.  If you haven't subscribed to the blog yet, please do so.  Facebook is getting wackier and wackier when it comes to pages and newsfeeds.  So, if you want to be sure and not miss a flip, then you better not count on Facebook. 

Come back tomorrow for another amazing furniture flip!

~ Stephanie

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait...

Today's flip has been a long time in the making.  It's one of our own.  I acquired our dining room furniture from my maternal grandmother Avery.  She and my grandfather J.D. purchased it new shortly after they were married in 1938.  By the time I got it, grandma had done some flippin' of her own to it.  In 1968, she had my Uncle Larry apply a faux woodgrain finish to the table, hutch and buffet.  The hutch and buffet are a matched set.  However, the table that now shares the room with them, didn't originally belong with them. 

The original matching table was damaged in a fire in 1944. During that period of time, my grandparents lived above their grocery store in downtown Crestview, Florida.  My mother Annette was a few years old.  One night my mom woke up her mom (Grandma) to take her to the bathroom.  As she entered the hallway in that upstairs apartment my mom pointed out smoke coming in under the door from the store below.  Grandma hurriedly woke up Grandpa and visiting sister-in-law Effie.  Grandpa ran to a window and yelled to some airmen heading to the bus station on their way back to Eglin Air Force Base.  The men noticed the fire in the store below and ran to assist them.  The family climbed out onto the porch roof and the servicemen helped them down to safety.  The family was safe and everything else that was lost could be replaced.  The dining room set survived.  The table had damage to it.  Grandma kept the hutch and buffet, but gave the table and chairs to her parents (my great grandparents) who repaired it and kept it for their own use.   

Flash forward to 1955.  My grandmother relocated to Illinois with her husband and family.  The table stayed in Florida, the hutch and buffet came with them.  Grandma located a Tiger Oak table to purchase.  She bought it from a farmer who had it stored in a barn.  Here's a picture of my grandma that year with the table.  Funny story about that picture...it was staged.  My grandmother wanted to send pictures of their new home in Illinois back to her relatives in Florida.  So, she dressed up, pretended she was setting the table for a party and had my mom snap that picture.  (The apple which is me did not fall far from that tree.)  

The beautiful woodgrain on that table was covered in that same faux finish.  Ugh.  I know.  What was she thinking?  Well, at that time it was all the rage to faux finish furniture.  (Sound familiar Furniture Flippers?)  In the late 1990's, I paid someone to strip the table and chairs back to the beautiful wood.  The hutch and buffet's time didn't come until this year.  (We knew those two pieces weren't gorgeous Tiger Oak.  We learned during this makeover, they were built with whatever wood the builder had on hand.)  I really began the makeover on them the week of Thanksgiving 2012.  I painted the hutch and didn't like how it was looking.  I stopped midway through and decided to strip it and the buffet.  Well, if you know me, and I think you might, you won't be surprised that I quickly became bored with it.  They were pushed aside for cooler projects.  Like the Pottery Barn Inspired Entertainment Center and the Dumpster Dresser.  Then the Park Ridge Project.  The Lion's Head buffet.  The Bird Dresser.  The Chair from Hell makeover.  And the Triple Rocker. Plus, a myriad of home improvement projects.  Patiently they waited.  Finally we got to them.  We had a deadline of Thanksgiving 2013.  We did not meet that deadline.  

While it may seem that I was purposely avoiding these two pieces, I assure you there was a reason.  My grandmother had "flipped" them and that makeover lasted for 45 years.  She had no way of knowing then that so many decades later her granddaughter would be "flipping" them again.  I, however, imagine that in 40 years my future grandchild will be making them over again.  And I wanted to make sure she (or he) didn't call into question what her (or his) grandma and grandpa was thinking when they did this flip.  So, I took my time deciding how I wanted them to look.  Triple H was on me the whole time, telling me we had to get them done.  Finally, I decided I wanted to repurpose the beadboard that we had from our last 100+ year old cabinet.  You might recall we had two of those cabinets.  They originally were owned by my stepdad's aunt.  We worked one of them into our kitchen makeover.  

We took apart that cabinet.  Discovering that the wood used for it was purchased locally.  In very old fashioned handwritten penmanship is written "J.C. Ames Lumber Co."   They were well known in my town beginning in 1868.  They closed in 1987. 

It has since been torn down.  I always loved that building.  This building was built in 1923.  I'm not sure what the original building looked like.

We then set to work sanding and sanding and sanding and sanding.

Then repairing the repairwork on the buffet that I would guess my Uncle Larry might have performed. 

Along the way we found some fingerprints that must have belonged to the original builder of the buffet.  We kept those.  They are still inside the buffet.  

We removed the shelves so they could be sanded and stained.  

 

Triple H was a super smartie when it came time to sand the original knobs.  

I worked hard trying to match the stain to the century old finish on the beadboard.  I even turned to my carpenter friends for their opinions on the finish.

We then set about prettying it all up and pulling it all together.  Paint, paint, paint.  Stain, stain, stain.  Finish, finish, finish.  Once that was done, then it was onto the beadboard.  

Finally, the end of this makeover was in sight.  We cut the beadboard down to size and attached it.  

 


We also replaced the wood backing on each piece.  





Then it was picture taking time...

The buffet looks beautiful with its stained top and knobs against the black.








My china pops against the old beadboard.  I love that such an old cabinet was able to be incorporated into this piece.  It gives it another layer of history to the hutch.  As if surviving a fire and making the trek from Florida to Illinois wasn't enough of a history for it.  

You should know by now that my picture taking skills are limited by my lack of a good camera thanks to a certain Robin that tried to kill me.  But, you get the gist.  

I really love that wood/paint combination.  I like to move my furniture around from room to room, so it'll look just as nice in the kitchen as it does the dining room.  

I wish I could show you a good picture of all of the pieces (the hutch, buffet and table/chairs) inside of the house.  However my house with all of its windows and bad lighting just doesn't do them justice.  Here is a picture of the table waiting for them to return.  The poor table was without his partners for over a year.  

So, there you have it.  The cobbler's kids finally have shoes!  I really love my dining room furniture.  I look at those pieces and I see so many memories when I look at them.  My grandmother had a beautiful home in a small town 12 miles from where I live now.  Her dining room was my favorite room.  She & I had a special relationship.  She was my runnin' buddy.  We'd get into all kinds of mischief together. I think that she would be proud of how we are taking care of her furniture.  

That's it for today's flip.  It was a long read, I know.  So, if you didn't read it word for word, I won't hold it against you.  It was more of a way for me to chronicle this for the next generation of my family.  

I would like to add that the next time you find yourself participating in the "great paint debate", think of this flip.  Think of how my grandmother applied a faux finish over beautiful Tiger Oak.  Then recall that I stripped it off to reveal that woodgrain again.  What is painted can be stripped.  Or if you feel like painting over wood, do it.  You do what you want to the furniture that you own.  

This is the last flip for this year.  I'm taking the rest of the year off and will return on Thursday, January 2, 2014.  Thank you all so much for being a part of Furniture Flippin' this year.  It has been an incredibly fun experience for me.  I've met a lot of wonderful people along the way and have been inspired by all of you. 

I can't wait to see what you do in 2014.  

~ Stephanie

Live It Up - Take Some Penicillin and Buy A TV..and a China Cabinet

The end of the year is near and things are busy here at Furniture Flippin'.  We are finishing up a flip of our own and that, combined with the holidays has kept us hopping.  So, I'm turning the blog over to my friend Kelli of Pretty Painted Things & Other Things That Make Me Happy.  Let's check out her latest work.  Take it away Kel...

1928............That was the year this china cabinet was made (so says the sticker on the back of the cabinet).

1928 was the last boom year of the Roaring Twenties before the crash of 1929 for most of the world. Some of the most important events of 1928 were the discovery of penicillin, the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland and the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the sale of the first television and the election of Herbert Hoover. 

Fast forward 85 years........and here we are today.  I picked up this china cabinet that was in dire need of some TLC.  The door had been taken off (I like it better with open shelves- I think it's more multi-purpose this way) and the veneer on the front had been hacked/torn off.  I loved the shape of it and immediately saw major potential.  I saw in my minds eye exactly how I wanted it to look. First I had to find some period wallpaper.  I didn't find exactly what I had in mind, but I did fall in love with the 1930's paper I found. It's a minty-blue with sweet pearly stripes and a little bit of floral. 

It looks like there are several different types of wood on the cabinet - the front panels would have to have something done to camouflage where the veneer had been savagely removed. I decided on appliques.  

I painted a bit of pearl ivory paint over each of them and then distressed and aged, so it does look like an authentically old piece.  

 




It's super sturdy and may just last another 85 years. What are the events of 2013 that will be remembered as we look back? Surely they will look back in horror at this year and think twerking is as awful as I do now.  ~ Kelli

~ Stephanie back again!  Hehehehe..thank goodness for friends who come to my aid when I'm just a tad bit lax in my duties.  Let's take a look at the amazing after of this cabinet.  

 

That piece is gorgeous.  You can see more pictures and read more details and comments by visiting Kelli's Pretty Painted Things & Other Things That Make Me Happy Facebook Page.  Be prepared to stay awhile because her work is out of this world and she will inspire you.  

Pretty Painted Things & Other Things That Make Me Happy is based in Tennessee.  All of the items Kelli makes over are for sale, but not for long.  They go quickly.  Head on over to her Facebook page and let her know you saw her on Furniture Flippin'.  

Thanks Kelli for letting me steal from you twice in one month.  If it wasn't for you both of those days we'd all be looking at a blank post for the day.  

Okay dear readers, let's hear from you today.  I like stuff to read, too!  There's a comment section below.  Let's hear some feedback.  Also, if you  have a furniture flip you'd like to share, please email me.  

Have a great Friday!

~ Stephanie

Their Family Increase(d) When She Bought A Two-Piece...

All of you wonderful furniture flippers are torturing me with your hutch and buffet makeovers lately.  You are a constant reminder that my own hutch and buffet are not yet done.  What's the saying?  The cobbler's children have no shoes?  Now, I really have to get on the  move and get ours finished.  Here's one more incentive for me to get with the flow and it's all thanks to Glo.  You've met Glo of Patina Pizazz before.  I introduced you to her back at the end of May when some very glamorous tables of hers were featured.  Let's see what Glo has been up to lately. 

Glo wrote to me recently, "Hutches are hot right now (what’s up with that) so of course I had to get one.  I bought this two piece number from Jennie, my Annie Sloan stockist (whom I love by the way) in Hillsboro, Oregon from B Designs Home Décor.   She sold it to me AS IS for $20 bucks.  YAH, you heard me $20 bucks.  It had missing glass, missing hardware and of course missing veneer, but most of all it was missing some GLO-Glam."

Glo set to work on her.  Cleaning the hutch, removing some of the veneer in spots so she didn’t have to wood fill.  She then painted it Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White and Ochre.  She found hardware that would work with the few pieces that came with the hutch.   
  She added more pizazz to it with the addition of black decals.  At that point Glo was still thinking she was going to sell the hutch and while the black accents would go with her decor, she thought a potential buyer might want the option of removing them.  Thus, she used decals and chose not to stencil.  The decals stay where you put them and are easily removed if you wish.  

Glo thinks that deep in her heart she knew that this two piece number was destined to stay with her and her handsome handy husband.  (She lovingly refers to him as her "sexy man slave" and says he was instrumental in moving this heavy sucker around and helping her with the hardware.)  They took a family vote and decided NOT to sell.  Take a look at it and you'll clearly understand their unwillingness to let her go...

THAT is gorgeous.  I love it.  Now, it's making me rethink my entire makeover of my hutch!!  Thanks a lot Glo!  

Glo says while she now has her Christmas collection of trees and things displayed in the hutch, she also loves to display fancy shoes in these cabinets.  She admits that she has one already for that purpose but a girl can't have enough shoes so this baby may be making a move from the dining room to the bedroom.    

Glo writes, "There are so many uses for hutches these days so get creative.  They’re not just for dining rooms and your grandmother’s china any more."  I agree!

Let's take one more look at the hutch in its current habitat...

Thanks Glo for sharing your fabulous furniture flip!  

You can find Glo on her Patina Pizazz website where you can see what she is working on and follow along with her blog.  She is based in Oregon.  You can find her items for sale at Monticello Antiques in Portland, Oregan and at Curiosities in Beaverton, Oregan.  

Okay, dear readers.  Let's hear from you this week.  There are a number of ways you can join in on the Furniture Flippin' fun.  You can leave your witty comments here in the comment section.  You can join in on our fun times on our Furniture Flippin' Facebook page. Or you can email me some flips of your own to furnitureflippin@yahoo.com .  It's up to you.  

Happy Monday!

~ Stephanie