When using very fine sandpaper my grandfather taught me to rub 2 sheets together so you basically sand down the sandpaper. It is to remove any high bits on the paper. My grandfather taught me how to French polish and with this method getting smooth sandpaper the polished table I did looked like glass. Hope this helps.
French Polish is using shellac mixed with linseed oil. The oil slows the drying time of the shellac. It takes many thin coats, with sanding in between.
I looked up Paul Pelletier since he's from my hometown. He recently passed away at 92! I'm sure he would have loved to see you restore this table so beautifully.
New subscriber. My blood pressure seems to drop while I watch these videos. The relationship you have with the wood, the respect for the wood working traditions and your kindness with the amateurs that have left obvious trails is nourishing. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by projects, but your unhurried way reminds me to take pleasure in the process. I also learn helpful things each time. Thank you!!!
That was beautifully written and I agree. I get that same feeling of deep relaxation watching her work with wood. Her respect for the people watching and the furniture she restores soothes and inspires my antique collecting heart. She is a true artist and craftswoman.
What a beautiful, touching thing to say! I am honored. I'm so very glad you're enjoying my content and finding it helpful. Thank you so very much for watching and leaving such an incredibly thoughtful comment. ❤️❤️
I don’t understand why people don’t love furniture like this. Every piece has a story. All the people who used it in the past etc. And trust me, if I lived near you I would be buying most of the things you restore. If I could afford delivery and shipping I would buy have them here in the UK! Love your channel. New subscriber! 🖤
In Europe antique furniture has more quest than in US; we have an older history and we love this type of furniture; but depend on people: some like new and modern furniture!
The top of the table is beautiful! The little claw feet look great. Just the right amount of patina with the right amount of shine. It will sell. It’s just waiting for the right person.🌸
I am a retired interior designer - and this piece is so gorgeous now. Your hard work shows off the wood so wonderfully! I love to add a piece or two of older pieces in a home so that you can see the heritage of a family. Eclectic is my preferred style - I put the quality of the piece as the thing that makes them all join together so that it fits as a collection.
Some friends we knew had some eclectic family heirlooms and when she would mix and match styles in her rooms, she called it "juxtaposing"! A great word for combining styles. All you have to do is pull them all together with similarly colored throws or sofa pillows or artwork.....just little pops of color repeated throughout the room which is like connecting dots to create a color theme which pulls together all those varied styles of furnishings. You may not want to go as broad as, say, a Gothic arched bookshelf with a Victorian bentwood rocker with a MCM buffet, but adding one or two of them in a room with other coordinated furnishings that follow a general theme can work especially if the woods are similar colors, the handles of drawers are similar from piece to piece, or the textures, shapes, or other design motifs are similar.
i'm so glad to see you restore the wood instead of just painting the whole thing some weird color, like so many "diy furniture restoring" people do! i love wood, i love it's texture and colors and it saddens me to see people covering beautiful wood up
thats because the colors most diy furniture flippers paint these pieces with are trendy so they sell faster. which isn’t a bad thing. wood is still wood even when you paint over it. if painting over solid wood keeps it from getting thrown into the landfill, i’m all for it.
Agreed. I dunno, i've seen some flips like that and they're cute but I personally find it hard to paint over wood, just feels wrong. The worst is like with cabins with actual pine panels (not the 70s faux panels), it's very in to paint them white and i'm like 'NOOOO!!!! blasphemy to cover up natural wood grain!'. lol. but at least I've come to know it's not totally permanent if someone ever wants to strip it...still....I'm with you on this.. Still, I think some things are best restored not covered up.
The style is called Duncan Phyfe. They were notorious for getting wobbly on the single pedestal tables. You could always put the makers label back on after you are done. The pieces on the pedestal that you had to fill would have been flush when it was made but due to shrinking over the years of one piece or the other the pieces separate a bit. My grandma had a dining table like that and those were problems as it aged.
It is so hard to believe the transformation of these old wood pieces. Seeing how dull and lifeless they are at the beginning, and how much they glow with warmth at the end, has become one of my favorite things. Thank you for putting up videos like this!
OMGGGGG ! 3 bucks for that ! you couldn't have done better with a gun and mask ! 😂 the finished table is BETTER THAN NEW ! ...if only I could give this a thousand likes , I would ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Omg - you have to be an East Coaster with a saying like that!! 🤣🤣🤣 You made my day! Best wishes (wherever you live) to you for the holiday season - from the West Coast!! 🥰🎄🥂
@@ugottabkidding...9942 LoL nope We're in Stagecoach (near Houston) and I can't even get a wobbly/stinky stick of firewood for $3 much less a wobbly/stinky table 🤣😂Merry Kissmoose from Texas ! #gigglesnortgiggle
Not only do I love your work ethic and how careful you are and and how lovingly you restore pieces, but I have to say, your delivery: How much you tell us, all the details, the speed (which is PERFECT) with which you show us and the voice over, is the most SATISFYING of any restoration show I've seen. DON'T CHANGE A THING! I love your videos and I'm subscribed!
You are remarkably talented and gifted. I love to see someone with so much love for reviving, restoring and so sympathetically re-purposing beautiful wooden objects with such thoughtfulness, consideration, appreciation and care.
My grandmother had a lot of furniture like this, except hers was uniformly dark. Your natural finish gives a lovely upgrade to the style, Angie. Well done!
Lovely! This is a style of furniture that would fit very well into our current house. We have a 1960’s Cinderella-rustic inspired ranch style house, with a lot of wood, French provincial revival cabinetry, scalloped wood trim, etc.
Another piece where you can almost hear it sighing with relief and saying "someone gets me" well done. I love watching your videos. Happy holidays from Southern Ontario 🙂
Angie, I grew up with parents who loved antiques and collected them, and I've seen many tables like this one down through the years. You did a BEAUTIFUL job on the restoration! I applaud you for waiting to preserve the beauty of that wallet on this piece. Just a lovely job. Truthfully, I watched a number of your videos and I'm always impressed with your eye and what you do and why, even when you paint some pieces. This lovely wallet table is certainly happier now that it was restored by you! Thanks!
An outstanding labor-of-love! It's now beyond better than new. I appreciate your respect for 'history' of the table. Definitely not made as disposable furniture. I have my late parents Duncan Phyfe mahogany dining room and bedroom furniture. Once back in my home I can pull everything from storage and actually allow those beauties to breathe again. Although not my style the furniture has been part of my life since birth - over 7 decades now. So many memories! (There's an old warehouse building now utilized for selling furniture and furnishings. It hurts me to see the same chest-of-drawers being sold for $90, dresser/mirror for $125, double head/footboard for $35.)
I have my parents dining set, too. Due to damage I may have to paint part of the buffet and the chairs. I am 72 and they were purchased shortly after I was born.
30 years ago I did refinishing. I was always looking for an upgrade. I gave all my projects a tung oil finish. Lots of work but worth it. I really enjoyed watching you work
I’m sitting here on a Sunday morning, and your video popped up in my algorithm. I am truly amazed at your work and your attention to detail. I have antique furniture all in my house from generations within my family. I absolutely love that you restored this piece to it’s original (better than!) state. Thank you for bringing these old pieces back to life and giving them the attention they deserve. ❤️
Love your work. I used to do it myself and know what you mean about people not understanding the labor involved. I used to tell people there were two reasons to spend money on old furniture. 1) It's been determined to have value as a collector item. 2) it has sentimental value to you or your family. Beyond that it's firewood. Keep at it!
Looks a thousand times better, clean, natural and fresh. Once again I really appreciate how you let the wood grain be the star of the show. Any piece that gets into your hands is very fortunate!
Oh MY WORD ! What an amazing transformation ! Scarcely looks like the same table .. and that beautiful wood grain you exposed and brought out with your finishing techniques .. ! Stunning !!!
I love the result, especially the new, natural shade. It's a solid wood table and worth restoring. The video shows what modern plastic glue can do, especially when too much of it gets onto the wood. The restoration then takes a lot of time. Bone glue is at least as strong as modern artificial glue, but it is easier to renew or remove. For worm-eaten holes or small imperfections, I prepare a paste of bone glue and sawdust. It's very efficient.
Gorgeous! It shocks me how people don't appreciate real wood pieces and tend to lean toward painted plywood "modern" types. I appreciate your love of restoring furniture.
Thank you for knowing this piece needed to be restored and not painted. It's absolutely beautiful. To me it's the same concept of decorating ones home to suit you and your family. When it comes time to sell, so be if it takes a little longer to sell. The right person will come along and love it.
I love this table. I really like your channel. I like to see someone actually take their time with antique furniture and redo it as original. So beautiful!
I love how beautiful the walnut is with the oil finish! Don't know when this was made but in the mid-1950s seems everyone had at least one piece of this style of table in their home. Some were 3 tiered round ones.
What an amazing piece and restoration. I love furniture where you can see the beauty of the wood. $175 is a deal for that piece and anyone who buys it will be lucky to have it. Beautiful!!
Well That’s a keeper! Totally charming:) worth so much more than $175! Now because of your sweet transformation, it’ll be hard to pass up these little orphans begging me to take them home for a makeover!
Growing up we had something similar. It was wobbly too. When you were putting on the oil and butter I was like 😍 obviously, I love walnut lol. Excellent work!
Hi Angie, your work has really inspired me to start my own flipping furniture shop, I have some experience in wood but seeing your awesome art has helped me to make the move, thanks.
If I were a few decades younger I would consider doing it too. At age 71 and not terribly flexible of body, I enjoy watching the love Angie lavishes on pieces you might first think belong in a dumpster. And hey, she may have found a few IN a dumpster. Who knows? I am just impressed with how she can figure out the types of woods these pieces are, and can visualize the finished piece even before starting.....you have to know woods, how they look, the grains, and then the products best used to bring out the particular qualities of the woods. I am so glad she doesn't just slap paint over the whole surface immediately. It really puts those other furniture flippers who do that to shame. I don't care if they DO use Annie Sloan or Dixie Belle products out the kazoo, sometimes those just aren't the right product for the type of wood or overall design of the piece.
I really love how you do your job with such precision and care. The end result is beauty that comes from a combination of the natural materials and the quality of the workmanship.
Beautiful ! Here's a hopeful thought - that as authentic wood is becoming more rare and more expensive, maybe people will become more appreciative of these old treasures. The natural wood is so Beautiful ! Thank for restoring these old friends.
$175 is an amazing price for that beautiful piece. Most people have awful taste but lucky is the one that sees the beauty of this restored piece and buys it!
Usually, I'm not a fan of narration, it slows down the work, all that talking to the camera. Yours, on the other hand, done in the voice-over style, is a welcome addition to the work! You have a great, welcoming style and a sweet voice that is SOOO easy on the ears.
Thanks to your examples, I've started using Odie's Oil products on my own refinishing projects, and it really is remarkable how easy it is to use given the amazing finish it produces. The only problem I've had is that it has lifted some of the oil-based stain from some wood. Overall, a complete game-changer for my projects.
Funny, the satisfaction that you get with your orbital and hand sanding, I get watching your videos! I'm not sure if it's your soothing voice, the education *I think* I'm getting, the encouragement I'm psyching myself into trying this myself, or the fact that my manicure still looks fabulous afterwards, BUT I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
HAND SANDING: When I had a lot of the same routed edges to sand, I found it worth the time to make a custom sanding block. I put blue tape on a clean section of the routed edge (including little molding dams around the sides), and used Durham’s Rock Hard Water Putty to make a mold; a 3” long block of the NEGATIVE of the edge, then used rubber-backed sand paper to squish in place while sanding all the curves at once. Saved my fingertips from a lot of grief, and did probably a better job than I would have done without the little custom block. For interior curves, I made a shorter one, about 1” long, using the curved area to cast the block. The rubber-backed sandpaper was essential, because it conforms much better than any paper-backed kind would. For the block, any epoxy putty or even thick plaster might work. I just had the Water Putty handy, and it’s cheap.
That turned out beautiful! I absolutely agree, there are pieces that cry out for revitalizing, rather than a completely different change. So glad you brought this piece back to it's original beauty!
I’m just seeing this video now. It brings me joy to watch these. My brother ( we lost him in 2015) loved refinishing furniture. He taught me a lot. He refinished my father’s high chair from 1921. He refinished many other pieces with such diligence such as you. I cannot do this type of projects due to right rotator cuff injury/surgery and dislocated ulnar. ( I’m right hand dominant). I picked up 🧶 crocheting again during the pandemic and made dozens of pieces, however, my eyes and fine motor skills are failing. THANK YOU SO MUCH for bringing joy to my heart. Much pleasure especially when you use the rotary sander. Remain blessed!! 😊
Angie, I'm so glad you did this piece! I have a coffee table that I bought from a couple that was moving away from Vancouver, and it's the same style as this one. When I went to pick it up I was surprised and happy to realize that it's a Gibson piece, made in Napanee, Ontario, a few minutes from where I grew up! I've refinished a couple of dressers, but this table is going to be more of a challenge for me because the legs have broken since I got it, and at least one of the dowels is broken. If it's alright, I might message you on Instagram for some advice when I start working on it. I'm not planning on doing it for at least a few weeks. I'm really looking forward to it because I love the piece. It has either the exact same or similar feet on it, a little drawer, and small drop leaf ends. You did such a great job on your piece. The right person will definitely be happy to buy it, I'm sure!
First time seeing one of your videos. Let me just say, I am in absolute LOVE with this table. You did an amazing job restoring it. Thank you for not painting it. Yes, some pieces are better painted. This was not one of those pieces. It's gorgeous!!
Hang in there..someone will b wise enough to see the value of this piece…you made it so beautiful..who wouldn’t b proud to show it off in there home…it’s a great deal…you worked hard and if I could I would buy it and love looking at it every day.
So happy I stumbled upon your video! This is beautiful!! And you explain your work easily and with passion. I can tell you love what you do. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to refinish some vintage furniture I just got. I’m nervous but with your videos I feel a lot more confident starting🤗
I could watch you work all day. So carefully, expertly, intuitively and lovingly restored. Really pleasant listening to your commentary as as you work away too. A true master artisan.
I love watching your videos. I sanded through the veneer in a dining table, and was heartsick. I watched a video where you painted on the wood design and it looked great. I’m going to try the same thing.
I loved this video, I bought a small side table that wobbles more then yours did, so it’s on my list for a do over between Christmas and new year. It’s a shame that these pieces don’t sell as quick as painted or more modern pieces do. Two years ago we sold our home and At lot of the feedback from the Real Estate agent was that people were very surprised how good modern pieces could look and sit happily alongside the antique pieces of purchased over the years.
My living room is like that. Modern couch, mixed wood drum table from the 80's, cherry secretary from the 1920's, brass lamps from the 1940's and 1970's, and an oak TV cabinet from the 1980's and a teak mid century china cabinet. I had a friend look at it and gasp that none of it matched. I told her it was a wealthy person's living room. All solid wood with great craftsmanship and inherited or bought for its quality.
I agree! I have a mix of family pieces and MCM/modern ones. They go well, giving the rooms a curated feel rather than “I bought the entire page from the catalogue “
Thanks for this awesome video! Your teaching moments were wonderful, and the result of the project is amazing. My mom loved this style of furniture, but all of her furniture was really dark. I fell in love with your restoration, down to the little toes on the table feet! What a difference the lighter finish makes.
I'm almost 62 now, My grandmother had one just like that, although she did have an extra piece that was framed glass that went on top. My grandmother's also had brass feet that looked like clawed toes. This was really a joy to watch & I learned quit a lot. I actually go for the old dark wood, that's when ppl took time w/ their craft & it showed in the pieces. Beautiful job, what a difference in appearance.
Watching the walnut "appear" during the sanding was amazing! I love the look of walnut and you treated that table like a baby...with loving care. What a beautiful piece! You do gorgeous work.
I love walnut wood. My family home had walnut floors and stairway plus board and batten siding all milled from trees on the property. Have many memories of polishing those floors with an old fashioned hand polisher. The home is no longer in the family but hope those touches are still cherished. I love the way you take such care in refinishing!
I am a newbie to this and working on my first piece. Needless to say after sanding all day, I was bawling the next, throwing in the towel etc. What I am getting at is, thank you so much for sharing what you are doing and why. You are a Godsend to me!
Oh Steph, we have ALL been there. Just remember to breathe and give yourself some grace. You're learning new skills with a thousand variables to affect things. Take it slow, you have got this!! Thanks so much for watching. ❤️
Amazing transformation. I loved that you kept the real wood and that you don’t stain but use the Odie’s Oil to show the richness of the wood tones. ❤🎉❤❤❤
Another magical transformation! What a gorgeous perfect piece. I can’t believe it hasn’t sold. It is just sooo nice!! Personally I am so glad you didn’t paint it and used Odie’s instead. It just turned out perfect. Have a great holiday!
Stumbled across this video… I’m hooked and now subscribed 😁! You’re so talented and I love ❤️ what you did with this beautiful piece. Amazing. Thank you! 😊
Beautiful. It is surprising that it hasn't sold as the walnut top would complement something mcm without being too matchy matchy. If you buy what you love, it all works somehow. There shouldn't be fashion in furniture.
