The chair with a story .....

A repeat customer asked if we would take a student chair that was from a Univeristy of Georgia classroom. Come to find out several of their family members had gone to UGA , and in fact here mother and father meet while students there. 

Now I don't like to say something was ugly, but over the years someone had painted this whole chair a horrible green, and we had to strip it all the way down to raw wood.

Above is our vision with the UGA logo on the seat and the faux initials of the customers mother and father on the writing desk top. The legs are painted UGA colors and the upright spindles. It has been brought back to live in a place of honor instead of in the corner in the garage. 

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Crib turned into a bench

A customer brought us there child's crib and asked if we could turn it into a bench for them. 

Here is what we were able to do. The seat has the family name and year of there wedding (Est.). 

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updated theater seats

These theater seats have been updated and refreshed to bring new life to the vintage beauties.

All the parts are original, everything was freshened up and the images on the seat backs were added. 

Vintage theater seats

a pair of vintage theater seats that have been restored. The original seat cushions were kept and painted with a vinyl paint from the auto parts store, the metal sides were stripped and repainted. The wooden backs were stripped and the images added. 

The wooden base was added to hold the seats and tie everything together.

 

 

Canopy bed turned into a bench

This is a customer supplied antique canopy bed that has been in family a very long time. She did not want to get rid of it but also did not have use for it in the current form.

Above is a picture that she sent us to see if we could make a bench from this bed. The issues that she needed addressed was , it was too tall (8 ft tall at the post), too wide over 4 1/2 ft wide, wanted different color. The room she envisioned it going into was the guest room and it had no closet, so she wanted some rails around the top for guest to hang clothing. We ended up cutting it down to 3 ft wide and just under 6 ft tall with antique white and a dark stain. 

(yes the paint scheme was based on the horse "Frankie" in the background)

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Table Transformation

Table transformation from drab to fab 

We were contacted by the Seeger family, about reviving their dinning room table. After several conversations, we decided that they shared our vision and we agreed to take on the project 

The dinning set was in great shape solid wood (with 3 leaves "surprise"), but they wanted it to have a more dramatic flare. 1st step was to take everything apart and remove the original finish and stain with the sander (no chemicals used).

The base and chair spindles and legs were all painted 3 coats antique white, then sanded smooth to remove all brush strokes, and given a light distress. 

   We added a custom graphic to the top via heat transfer and added the darker stain and multi coat poly urethane finish.  

The finished product turned out great 

and was delivered in time for Christmas festivities.

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The Appleby's tables

We were contacted by a repeat  customers the Appleby family. They were just getting ready to move into a new house and they wanted to see if we could help with a new dining table and chairs, plus a couple side tables to go with the other pieces that they have from us. Of course we were happy to help them and design something that would add the Appleby touch to the new home.

The first thing that we tackled were the dinning chairs (all six of them) that were a perfect match for a tired farm table that we had found a few years ago. 

 Each chair was had the seat taken off and was completely sanded, then stained and several coats of polyurethane were applied.

On the table it presented it's own set of challenges, due to the fact that it had been in the barn awaiting it's time in the sun that one of the legs had rotted at the bottom. So we had to get all 4 legs made and the rest was sanded down and made ready for image transfer and staining.  

 For the image we made a custom one to show the establishment the Appleby family.

Here is the table and chairs in their new home. 

Below are the other Appleby's tables from the 3 Spurz, so far.

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Headboard Bench

Headboard turned into a beautiful bench. The hand painted "Welcome sit -relax- enjoy" will be welcoming guest and family  to a lucky home for many years to come. The front legs are newels from a stair banister and the seat was old rough sawn oak boards. 

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Hall tree from vintage door

Hall tree made from a vintage door, with church pew seat.

 

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Old theater seats from Yoakum texas theater

We transformed some vintage theater seats with the bright colors and heat transfer numbers. The seat covers are painted black the sides are a sea side gloss. These were a custom order to the customers colors.

Here is another set that we did 

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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"