Vintage Shabby Swedish Table for sale now! SOLD!

Vintage solid wood table for sale on Craigslist today.  Painted a Swedish blue and ready to be put to use!  Check it out here:

Vintage Shabby Swedish Table desk console paris chic -Free delivery - $175

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SOLD! Vintage Green wood Desk with Anthropologie hardware!

Here is my latest makeover subject.  A Vintage wood desk that I refinished and painted a Bamboo Green.  More citrus colors!!!  When will it stop?  (Probably not any time soon.)

I also put some timepiece knobs on this from Anthropologie.

Let me know what you think of the color and hardware.   I love the color but I know it's not for everybody.  I would love to hear your take on it!

I was thinking, if I were going to keep this piece (hmm...don't tempt me...) what are some desk accessories that I would match this up with?  Here are a few items from my fellow Etsy sellers, tushtush, pilotdesigns and ikcdesign, three very creative sellers that all have great stuff.  Please check them out!

Tushtush is one of my favorite painters of small works on Etsy.  Her portraits are intimate, beautifully composed and best of all, very reasonably priced.   This portrait, Acoustic Guitar, is one of my favorites by tushtush

 

and it's only $15 duquets for a print!  Whaaat?!  Yup!  A steal!  ($60 for the original, which, for an original painting is an even bigger steal! [But notice that the link I posted for Acoustic Guitar goes straight to the print version....okay, that's because I want the original.  So do me a favor and don't steal this steal from me...because I wanna' steal it.  Alright, buy it if you really want it but then do me a favor and buy something from my shop so that I can afford one of tushtush's paintings--See, win-win!--what a sneaky Sicilian I am.]) 

Okay, next up to go with the Bamboo Green Desk (that I want to keep but am going to force myself not to), a lamp by Etsy seller,  Keith Moore, whose Etsy shop, pilotdesign, features some very cool, very inspiring and very creative accessories for the home (I know, a lot of "very" but his work is just very "very!").  The Postage Lamp is one of Keith's designs that's just, well, "very," as in it would look very cool on the desk:

 

I love the graphic look of this piece and the fact that Keith uses a lot of recycled and sustainable materials, like bamboo, in his work.  Nice work from a very interesting guy (read his profile here) whose life does sound like a country music song--but not in a Hank Williamsy kind of way.

Lastly, it would be nice to have something to write in whilst sitting at this desk, whether it be a journal, some business papers, or what have you.  Let's go with Etsy seller numero trois, ikcdesign's 

Recycled Record Journal, pictured here (diagonally!--like in the Connect Four commercial!)

At night, whilst sitting at your bamboo green desk...your Postage lamp dimly lit, pondering tushtush's Acoustic guitar print (because the painting is mine--it will be mine....it will be mine...), you can open your brand new, recycled Bob Seger record journal and bust some pen and ink night moves in the form of poetry to your lover (imagined or real) or random musings about life and death (if you're feeling in a particularly French existentialist mood) or just sit there, staring at a blank page, maybe sipping a glass of your favorite two buck Chuck (as I often do in my marathon, non-productive, "writing" sessions) knowing that all is well (and it really is) because at the very least (if not more) you have some nice things to look at in your house--g. dammit!--if really, it's only in your home office (or, for me, the space in my bedroom I refer to as "my office").

Just posted the desk on Craigslist, here in Los Angeles, for all you local folk (and I also offer delivery) and this will also be up for sale in my Etsy shop very soon.
To see the craigslist ad, go here:
Vintage Bamboo Green Writing Desk Anthropologie hdwe
To see more pics of this and some of my other past pieces I've sold, visit my new Flickr photo page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abodewell/

To see this in person, email me here or on Craigslist!  "0\/0"

Vintage Orange Desk on Apartment Therapy's L.A. Scavenger!!

Apartment Therapy's  Los Angeles Scavenger is featuring some items for sale today in the L.A. area that feature the colors of the citrus rainbow.  My Vintage Orange Desk is one of them!  Thanks to the editors at ATLA for featuring the desk, along with some other really interesting pieces, like this one:

 

and this'n:

 

It looks like I'm not the only who is feeling kinda' fruity!...um...you know what I mean.

Sold! Vintage Citrus Orange wood Desk with Anthropologie hardware!

Okay, I never thought I'd say this after last year's "Africa hot" summer here in Los Angeles, but I think I'm ready for beach weather.  Maybe it's all the wet weather we've been having this winter that's been giving me the blues, or blahs--or maybe it has nothing to do with the weather at all.  Maybe I'm just missing the colors of summer!

That must be why all the pieces I've been working on lately have been bursting with color!  Like this Citrus Orange Vintage, Solid wood desk!   This a nice sized beauty that's not only gorgeous to look at but very well made and very functional.  Solid wood and panel construction, a solid top with solid drawers (and the drawers are dovetailed).

Oh, and did I mention the color?  So nice to look at!  See for yourself here:
Just posted this on Craigslist, here in Los Angeles, for all you local folk (and I also offer delivery) and this is also up for sale in my Etsy shop!

To see the craigslist ad, go here:
Vintage Retro Chic Orange Solid Wood Writing Desk Anthropologie Hdwel

To see more pics of this and some of my other past pieces I've sold, visit my new Flickr photo page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abodewell/

Lots more vintage pieces to come and a few new items to be added to my Etsy shop!

SOLD!! New Craigslist Treasure! Vintage Apple RED wood Dresser with Anthropologie hardware!

I'm crazy for Red lately, what can I say?  Just posted this Vintage Apple Red, solid wood dresser, on Craigslist, here in Los Angeles!  This is a very nice, very solid piece that I think would look great in a retro chic home.  To see the craigslist ad, go here:

Vintage Apple Red Wood Dresser w Anthropologie Hardware Retro Chic !

 

More delicious finds to come in the next few days!  Stay tuned...

 

 

Don't you love RED? Red Campaign Desk in Etsy Treasury!

Been busy as a bee lately, working on new projects and hunting for vintage furniture in need of a new lease on life, so, I have LOTS to catch up on here in the upcoming weeks.  Just wanted to mention, though, that my Red Campaign Desk was included in a great new Treasury by a very interesting Etsy Seller out of Pennsylvania, Melissa Mitchell, whose Etsy shop,  Green Home Road, takes recycled materials and furniture pieces and gives them a much needed and bright new hairdid!

Her Treasury is called, "Red Hot Home!" (which is an awesome title, methinks), and includes some of my favorite pieces on Etsy, like the hand painted Sherpa stool (below), by Etsy seller Fauxkiss 

and the Block Printed Lamp Shade by Etsy seller, HomeSweet

Melissa has some very cool, very recycled and tres chic pieces of furniture, in her Etsy shop, Green Home Road, that are (as my dad would say, in his Brooklyn accent) "bee-yootiful!"

Check out her Rustic Recycled Old Door Coffee Table made out of an antique, solid wood, frame and panel door!  Very creative and muy sustainable!

And then, there is the piece of resistance (or should I say, least resistance), her "Little Red Table That Could," a nice little, vintage, demi-lune number with turned legs and a red lacquer finish (nice job on the finish Melissa!--it's very challenging to get such a nice, smooth finish with lacquer and Melissa did a great job).  Love that red!  And I love saying "RED Lacquer!"  Just saying it makes you smile like a loon! (that and the vanilla latte I just drank).  I think the "Little Red Table That Could," could (as the Dude would say) really tie a room together.

Check out more great RED pieces and the rest of her Etsy Treasury here: Red Hot Home!

Thanks for the include Melissa and for such a nice treasury!
Frank @
abodewell.etsy.com

SOLD!! Craigslist Treasures!--Newly refinished items up on Craigslist!

 

  

Just listed a couple of vintage pieces that I refinished on Craigslist: a beautiful, sage green solid wood desk, complete with Anthropologie Hardware (you can see it here) and a matching, sage green and white, solid wood bookcase.  I will post the process of refinishing the desk, from start to finish, in an upcoming blog!  Thanks for watching!