Vanity with lollipop mirror

Depression era vanity with lollipop mirror, that has undergone a major face lift.

Primitive dresser

Primitive dresser with pipe legs 

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Vintage french provincial serpentine front dresser

Vintage french provincial serpentine front dresser, painted and distressed. 

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buffet for flat screen TV

Repurposed vintage buffet/ sideboard, transformed into a media cabinet with decoupaged accents.

The perfect place to park the flat screen and still have a place for all your devices and plenty of storage.

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Revived vintage vertical cabinet

We took an old vintage cabinet that needed much love and turned it into this beautiful piece.  

For this restoration transformation, we had to replace all of the side panels and make many repairs. Then my wife did her decoupage magic with a Victorian era pattern to add that pop and give it the period flare that is the icing on the cake.  

 

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Oak chest of drawers brought back to life

The chest of drawers that went from ugly duckling to beautiful oaken swan. 

from this 

 to this 

This garage sale find had been mistreated and painted several times ( bright yellow covered by white). After stripping it down to mostly bare wood and replacing the cupboard door, the real magic started. The pediment with the wooden embellishments was added to the top creating a back splash. All of the drawers got reworked hardware and  stenciling on the sides which matches the back wall of the cupboard. Then it was fresh paint and embellishments added to the bottom to tie it all together. 

    

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Vintage Decoupaged Vanity

Vintage art deco style waterfall low boy vanity, with original scalloped top mirror. Taken from drab to fab with peacock blue paint and floral decoupaged drawers fronts. 

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Depression Era Glove Box Top Chest of Darwers

1920's Depression Era chest of drawers with glove box top and back splash. Another garage sale find that had broken feet and chewed off corners on the top. Refinished with antique white with gold accents, and floral decoupage, for that pop of color.

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Kitchen Island or Coffee Bar ?

This is one of those awesome times when you get to see your creation connect with a customer. 

Well it might be better to let them do the talking. Here is a text that we got this morning from a great couple that recently purchased one of our pieces a few weeks ago. 

Here is a photo of our Kitchen Island transformed to a Coffee Bar. We have been so happy with your design that we are now remodeling our kitchen to match the Coffee bar. I have posted this on my Facebook page and have had a great response to your work. Thanks again and looking forward to seeing more creative offerings from 3 Spurz. 

Jeff & Debby

This is the before and after picture of the kitchen island 

Jeff & Debby feel in love with the island, but they were looking for a coffee bar and the overhang in the back would not allow it to fit in the space that they had planed for the coffee bar.So to fix the issue we had Ken @ D&S Antiques remove the top on cut off the overhang so it would fit and now they are using that piece as a back splash for the coffee bar. I love it when everything works.

We look forward to being able to show more of our creations in their new homes in the future.

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How to Heat Transfer onto Furniture

We will be showing you step by step the way we paint and heat transfer our furniture.

We found this beautiful coffee table at a garage sale perfect for the heat transfer.

First we did was take it apart for a better sanding, this is optional.

We use 150 grit sand paper, also 220 grit sand paper for that smooth finish.

Ones I cleaned the piece with a damp cloth I proceed to paint a Turquoise color, and then distress with 220 grit sand paper to give it that aged look and that smoothness.

Then I proceed to stain and wax with Howard Citrus-Shield Mahogany Premium Paste Wax it is a two in one product, which I like.

(Note: The other option is using stain and Minwax Paste Finishing Wax to seal it).

Heat transfer onto wood tops

First thing I do, I go to my favorite vintage image website The Graphic Fairy to choose my images.

(Note: The image needs to be mirror image to do the transfer, you can use Microsoft Paint for it).

Using Microsoft paint I have scale the image onto pages

(Go to page setup then onto scaling you can choose Fit to by pages)

I then print the vintage image using a laser printer.

Chocolat Paris image from The Graphic Fairy

Rose Engravings – Godey’s image from The Graphic Fairy

Then I trace the lines using a ruler and a pencil  make sure they are straight, then cutout with scissors.

Ones I have the image together I proceed to tape it with Scotch Blue painters tape, cutting small pieces of it making sure I don't tape over the image. 

Then I centered the image taping the edges of the paper as you can see below,this will prevent the heat from separate my image.

I get my heat transfer tool using the pattern transfer tip.

 (I use Weller it's a 15-piece wood burning and hobby kit).

I then began to heat my image in a circulation motion lifting the paper to make sure it's transferring right, it takes time but believe me it's worth it.

Below is the transfer of the images.

I then stain the wood using Early American 230; also I gave it 3 coats of polyurethane to seal it. 

Ones it's dry I use P1500 sand paper using a little bit of water to smooth the top.

And here is the final product.

Before and after pic.

                                  Below I am posting other heat transfer projects we have done.

One of our projects was featured at The Graphic Fairy it was this Pig heat transferred on wood top. The graphic fairy is the best site for vintage images and one of our favorite stops. So you can imagine how proud we were when they chose our project to be featured on the site. "Some Pig"