Looking for antiques at El Rastro, the traditional flea market held every Sunday morning in Madrid, Spain Cristina Arias / Getty Images It might seem like a silly question: where do you find all this stuff? But there’s not an antique dealer out there who ever set up at a show or opened a shop …
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A Table?
Restoration Hardwares’ new table: Turning the Tables on Gravity Marcello Pozzi, the Italian architect and designer now living in Los Angeles, has designed his first mass-produced piece for the home. Commissioned by Restoration Hardware for its fall line, the Stack 50 table consists of 50 discs of plywood. Forty-eight inches wide, it has a metal …
Recent Projects
Check out some out furniture repair & restoration projects! Do you have a piece of furniture that needs a little bit of help to restore it? Contact Wood Menders for a no hassle quote to help you bring back the natural beauty of your furniture.
Recent Projects
Check out some of the recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders: Do you have a project you are working on or are planning on working on soon? Wood Menders can help – we have a two hour Furniture Repair & Refinishing class where we will walk you through how …
Five Furniture Finishing Tips
Today’s post is a great article that I found in Popular Woodworking. Enjoy! Furniture finishing doesn’t have to be complicated or mysterious. That’s not to say that even experienced finishers don’t run into problems from time to time; everybody does. But there are ways to make the outcome of your project finishing a lot more predictable …
Recent Projects
Here are some of our recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders!
Using Upholstery Nails & Tacks to Dress up your Furniture
I think of steel studs as adornments on high-end furniture — not the kind I own.Steel studs, furniture nails orupholstery tacks all boil down to the same thing: small, metal nails that were traditionally used to hold the fabric onto furniture. These days, the fabric is usually fastened with staples or glue, so those once-functional tacks and …