Custom Color! Vintage Desk Redux in Siena Sunset!

This is a before and after pic of a desk I just refinished in a custom color that I call "Siena Sunset."  I mixed the color myself, for a recent client who had seen another desk of mine, painted in a lighter shade of orange called, "Marmalade Glaze."  He was looking for something a little darker, like an Hermes Orange and I was more than happy to oblige him.  The desk has six coats of paint, applied by hand and two coats of hand applied wax.  The original brass hardware (which was caked with layers or tarnish) was cleaned and polished carefully, so as not to remove all of the patina, keeping its warmth intact.  I love the color and now am thinking if I could make some room in my place for a desk...

New Item for sale! Vintage Tall boy Dresser with turned knobs -- Sold

Here is a new item I just finished and just posted for sale on Craigslist!
Vintage Shabby Chic Wood Dresser Tall Boy -Free delivery - $175 

This is a Vintage, solid wood Dresser with four drawers and turned wooden knobs. 

The boards that comprise the top and sides of this vintage dresser are made from one solid 15 inch wide board!  Very nice and very hard to find nowadays (as trees are now rarely allowed to grow to the point where you can harvest 15" wide boards from them).  This might have been made by a single furniture maker (perhaps for personal use) as the construction doesn't appear to be factory made.

This is painted with a custom color I mixed myself, which I call Storm Cloud (a combination of dove grey and a creamy almond color).  I then wax this with a homemade wax that has a bit of white liming added to it, to give it a deep, weathered look that is actually very soft to the touch.

 The turned wooden knobs are stained with a Colonial Red stain that I mix myself, allowing the grain to still show through and the piece is lightly distressed.

This vintage dresser would look great in a rustic, shabby, paris chic or beach cottage home and will last for years to come.  It is ready to be put to use today!  If you live within 15 miles of Los Feliz, I offer free delivery for this piece.  Thanks for looking and if you'd like to check out the Craigslist ad, you can view the link here:

Vintage Shabby Chic Wood Dresser Tall Boy -Free delivery - $175

and if you're interested in this piece, or in refurbishing a piece you already have, you can email me through here or Craigslist.  Thanks for visiting my blog!

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

Here are some more pics:

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...