Furniture Update:
So I sold my first piece! I got impatient, and eventually dropped the price to $60, but it was a start! I got an e-mail about it on Saturday and set up a pick up time for Sunday. From Saturday until Sunday, I sat around rethinking the entire thing. Did I "over-distress" it? The antique wash was too uneven. She was gonna take one look at it and change her mind.
The lady couldn't come get it herself, so she sent her husband. He showed up on time, basically grabbed the dresser and left. No feedback, nothing. Kinda leaves you feeling weird.
This morning when I got up, I had an e-mail from the lady who bought it. She said, "My husband brought home the nightstand today and it's so beautiful I almost cried!! To say I love it is an understatement!" She said it didn't quite match the bed she had just bought, and she wanted to know what I'd done to get the antique color.
Thanks to Handsome and Red's good advice, I told her a small bit about what I did, but offered to refinish it for her or to refinish the bed I have that actually matches the side table. She wants quotes for both options!!! Hopefully I'll get some more business off this, but if not I've got lots of other projects to keep my super busy!
Hoping to get the rocking chair going this week!! I found the perfect fabric for it.
The seat and the back are both cushioned. and need recovering desperately. I'm planning to paint the arms white, and distress them a little. I think it will be really cute. Hoping to make a little profit on it.
I've really got to get started on bigger pieces to make some realy profit, but we're getting set up in the garage, so I'll be able to work at home. :)
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