furniture recipes

im new at blogging....but heres my plan.....this week im going to have furniture recipes....how we work on furniture ....how we rehab....how we decide

to me the ideal piece to pick is like this one...its easy to find, usually reasonable in price , not a good antique...

can you see it? its a depression era china cabinet without the big front door......this one had a bad door,so walla...its an open china cabinet....the furniture between the 1920s and the 50s is great ...there is a lot of it, its dark and unpopular so its easy to get.like in our rough room..and its still made out of real wood or heavy veneer....and it can be cheap....

first thing we do is

clean it up,

tightnen it up...jon does any repairs it needs...

then prepare the surface for paint..

.if its shiney we have to do something or the paint wont stick...or it will come off with the slightest bump..... so we have to decide what to do....the best thing is to sand the whole thing.then there is no problem.....but if the finish is already partly gone we also use liquid sander...which seems to work great.....and lots esier than sanding..

then we embellish!!! meaning wood appliques or in this china cabinet, nice iron corners ....

after that its time to paint..... if the piece was mahogany , or worse fake , dyed mahogany you have to deal with that....the red stain comes thru the white paint....so in that situation we go for painting it black....

then we add another dry brush coat of paint,,,then a coat of finish....

more later....