With Spring here – if you are like most people spend some time cleaning your house inside & out. Your kitchen cabinets can be one of the most expensive items in your house – but how do you take care of them and give them the TLC that they deserve? Kitchen cabinets tend to collect …
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Eliminate Things that Don’t Matter
From the Master – Seth Godin – couldn’t say it any better myself – A recipe for personal and brand triage… We invest our time in hopes of a return, prioritizing the important, but sometimes, we waste it on the urgent instead. What’s worth focusing on improving? How about a combination of these three: The …
Guide to Wood
Types of Wood – A Furniture Guide There are countless types of wood available for furniture manufacturing, from the common to the exotic. However, some types of wood make more practical furnishings than other types. For this reason, you should take the specific type of wood for your furniture construction into heavy consideration. In addition …
Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Today’s post is a great article on what Mid-Century Modern is. If you are like I am – you hear that term thrown around quite a bit lately, but there is a whole lot more to it than just the period where furniture was built. If you’ve spent any time talking with other collectors, …
Some Fun Facts About St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in …
Recent Projects
Here are some recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders: Until Next Time – Dan @ Wood Menders Question or Comments? Leave them below.
10 Steps to Restoring Your Furniture
Professional furniture restorers and hobbyists alike all have one thing in common: the desire to pluck a piece of furniture off the side of the road and restore it to its former glory. What’s not to like? You’re saving something from a landfill and breathing new life into a forgotten item. The former owner only saw a …