Ben Hoops

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Most Advice is Bad Advice

Today’s post comes from Seth Godin’s blog – very simple & straightforward.   People mean well, especially friends and family, but they’re going to give you bad advice. This leads to two challenges as you strive to create original work that matters: 1. Ignore their advice, even the well-meant entreaties that you stick with the …

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Recent Projects

Here are some recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders: Questions or Comments? Leave them below. Until next time – Dan @ Wood Menders

Recommended Stains

We always get asked what type of products do you use and which ones should we stay away from.  Here are some recommendations on the stains that we use at Wood Menders: The stains that we use almost exclusively when we are refinishing furniture comes from General Finishes (http://www.generalfinishes.com).  We purchase them typically at our …

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50 Interesting Furniture Pieces

Happy Friday Here are some very interesting pieces of furniture.   So…..Would you buy any of these pieces? Until Next Time – Dan @ Wood Menders.   Article Source – http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2009/07/50-brilliantly-creative-furniture.html

Recent Projects

Here are some recent projects we have been working on at Wood Menders.     Until Next Time – Dan @ Wood Menders

Odor & Your Furniture

In today’s post we will be discussing some home remedies to get that smokey smell out of your furniture. Smoke, whether from cigarettes, fire damage, or other burning things, can leave an unpleasant odor in your home. What’s worse is that this smell can stick to your furniture, leaving your house smelling rotten. Fortunately, there …

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Thank You Zig

Couldn’t say it any better .. Thank you, Zig My teacher Zig Ziglar died this morning. He was 86. Thanks for teaching me how to sell and why it mattered. Thanks for reminding me how much it mattered to care. Thanks for telling us a fifteen-minute story about Johnny the Shoe Shine Genius, so compelling …

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