Happen Found Restoration - 10 Drawer Cabinet
B y - Selena Cate
This last weekend was a fabulous furniture buying weekend. We spent four days procuring inventory and as soon as we arrived home, we got out our sanders and began working.
This piece above was nestled in a closet of an office in a house up in Cloverdale. It was a piece that was rather worn but had so much potential. I search especially for items that are ideal for artists and designers.
When I bring something home, I don't always have a vision of what it might look like from the stoart. The piece usually evolves into something else naturally. That is the magic of this kind of work.
Before Photo of Drawer
Each Drawer Sanded by Hand
New Old Stock Mercury Glass Style Knob
When I'm out scouting for inventory one of my favorite things to come across is New Old Stock items. These are items that are basically in new condition, many many years later. I found a box of these old knobs still in their original paper wrapper. I discovered 25 in total. These were perfect against the beautiful grain of this wood.
The old drawers originally had a semi gloss stain on it. After sanding I simply used Howard's Feed-n-Wax and it brought out the natural color of the wood.
This was delivered to the Antique Society, an antique collective, in Sebastopol yesterday afternoon.
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