I tell you, I could almost hear that beautiful dresser sighing in pleasure and soaking up all the oils and richness you put on it! So wonderful to have a new home where it will be loved and cared for. You did good Sophia!
Sophia, you and Scott are the perfect recipients for this family heirloom. Great job nourishing and protecting it. The extended family must have known, you will appreciate it and take care of it. Love the family picture of the original owners and how they are Scott's great, great great grandparents. I know you will do an amazing job on dining room table.
Sophia , oh how beautiful!! You did a wonderful job. The pleasure you gained from cleaning and polishing this item was written all over your face. Truly, only people who love older, "Family Furniture" should have it, it should never go to a Family Member who does not appreciate the item. The table is also going to be a beautiful piece of furniture when added to your collection when you have finished it. Your choice of Music was also excellent. Such a great Video. Thank you.
So nice to see someone who appreciates antiques and things that meant a lot to long gone relatives. Beautiful piece and you did a great job on it. Nothing silly about it in a dining room at all. It looks good there and the chairs look very classy now.
Sophia I just love that beautiful dresser. You are so lucky to have had it handed down to your family. Everyone knows you will take spectualar care of it. Just like every other beautiful piece of furniture in your beautiful home. Just beautiful. Margaret
Perfect music, Sophia. At 12:30 when you said it had been very well cared for for a very long time, and then the piano started, I had to imagine all the family members before you cleaning it too, and little children running around it - all the history it has been a part of and the stories it could tell. So special! You did a great job. It certainly fell into the right hands.
I thought that the little shelves on the mirror part were used for candles if you needed the light, or for little oil lights. I love your dining room table and chairs. Charming home.
I was watching this and the piano music was playing and I was scrolling through the comments about you taking such good care of this piece and it actually made me feel quite emosh! There's a charm you get with period pieces that's just lovely (she says looking around her room full of flat pack ikea)
It is a beautiful piece! So nice the Scott inherited it. I love Howard's feed and wax! I love old rustic pieces (less dear than your beautiful pieces), Howard's just makes the wood glow! Again a beautiful piece and great job!
It’s beautiful! Sophia you did a great job. I also love the table, it will look gorgeous in your dining room. You are blessed to be able to continue the tradition of caring for family pieces and pass them to future generations. Be blessed this week!
The dresser is spectacular! I love it!! And I think it is amazing how much love and care you are putting into caring for such a beautiful piece so that it can be handed down to your boys.
Fabulous, timeless beauty that looks right at home in that corner of your dining room against that red wall. This is a wonderful transitional historical piece that could be put just about anywhere and look beautiful, but the dining room seems to embrace it better than any other room. It's like this beautiful Victorian dresser came to life again. The potted plant with the long green stems add even more beauty sitting there on that beautiful shimmering wood against that red wall capturing the light from the windows. Can't wait to see what the Duncan Phyfe table looks like when you get done with that. I'm so excited!
The little boy on the far right (Estella's brother I suppose) looks so much like Scott, it's uncanny! What a unique piece! You did such a nice job on it too! Lovely.
Oh, Sophia, what a blessing of heritage has come into your life! It is absolutely beautiful! As you cleaned and nourished it, I knew it was a labor of love for Scott's family. Just beautiful!
I LOVE wood products. From trees to floors, the beauty of wood is so unique to each piece. I love the way you care for your pieces Sophia, and I appreciate that you demonstrate often the correct way to tend to the antique and new wood furnishings. Blessings!!
Oh, Sophia !! What a beautiful piece !! When you first revealed it, I GASPED !! It took my breath away !!! So glad you found the perfect spot to put it. It polished up and looks so gorgeous. You are going to enjoy having this in your home. If that dresser could talk, I'm sure you would find it's stories fascinating. So happy for you and your family. :D
It's beautiful Sophia!! At first I thought you were going to say you were replacing Scott's dresser with it and were just going to work on it in the dining room, and then I was like how will that work? but after watching it more and seeing it I could really see it as a buffet or a lovely wine bar and be more useful than it would be as a dresser since nowadays we have so much stuff!! I love repurposing my antiques as well, I have one of my grandfather's dressers (just a basic wood dresser) in my living room with all my clear glasses and some of the liquor that is in nice bottles on it like a bar area. Though, now that my kids are teens, I've had to put the liquor into hiding unless it's actually being used! I love it, and then in the drawers, I store some of my books! it keeps them from getting dusty and because of solid wood, it can easily hold their weight! While you do have a lot of heavier type pieces in your home, your love for them is always amazing, you never seem to take them for granted and really treat and respect the pieces like you would the people who have owned them! I am sure Scott's family is very proud that so much has ended up in your care!!
It’s looking so fresh and gorgeous Sophia grand job and Scott will definitely appreciate all the care and love you took to preserve it and best part is it’s not only beautiful but oh so functional. Great surprise for both of you. I love the Victorian Era furniture style. Always strong and sturdy, built to last, not like the pressed wood style currently available that doesn’t last long. TFS 👍🏻👍🏻💜🦋🐇🥚🐣💕🎼🐊
Sophia, what a beautiful piece and you put a lot of work into bringing it’s beauty back to life. Scott’s family would love that it went to your family. You will for sure take great care of it.
The dresser is so beautiful. You are lucky to have such a cherished piece and it could not have ended up in better hands. I see you moved the wreath up. Happy Easter to you, Scott, Edward, and William! I can’t wait to see the table too. I think the dresser is just perfect in the dining room.
My family had Duncan Phyfe furniture back in the 50s. The tables had harps on the bottom. I’ve never heard anyone on RU-vid mention it. This Eastlake piece is well done...good job!
Such an awesome blessing for your family! I know that Scott's family in heaven were happy to see the way you lovingly restored this treasure. I think it looks lovely in the dining room and will be very beautiful with the decanter and glasses. I love that you are so interested in keeping yours and Scott's family history alive and passing it on to your boys. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Very nice! Great for your family to receive a family piece to be loved by a couple more generations. Can't wait to see the table when your done giving it some tender loving care.
I know you plan to replace the lower white knobs, but I love how they pull your eye down to the lower part of the dresser and tie into the white marble.
What a beautiful piece of furniture to inherit and the work you did to bring it back to its original luster really makes it something to behold. Nice job. I love how you patiently worked with this piece. Great job.
That is an absolutely breathtaking piece. It makes me a little emotional that it ended up with you, someone so dedicated to taking such good care of it. Thank you for your care and thanks for sharing with us.
Sofia, you’re just being and doing you. I so agree with you and identify with you. Your house is so homey and beautiful. It must be awesome to live there. You only live once Sofia and that dining room table is going to be marvelous. Fantastic!!! Jean from Arizona 😊🌮
back in the day, I think the shelves on the mirror were for candles so one could see in the winter while putting away their cuffs etc after a party or what-not...gorgeous piece!
I absolutely love that you appreciate beautiful, well built furniture AND want to preserve it. I despise the “farmhouse” look that’s so popular these days. I don’t mind nicks in furniture. I actually love them, it’s personality, it’s a story. I can’t stand someone going in with steel wool to make something look a certain way (or worse painting antiques pink and yellow and then taking steel wool to it as I’ve seen a local shop do). I thank you for showing how you are restoring this piece to its glory. I would love to buy one similar and do the same.
Oh Sofia, what a labor of love . It looks magnificent. Great products. Thanks for showing us how to do this . I am going to try this on some antiques I have. I can't wait to see what you put on it.
Oh Sophia, what a stunning piece of furniture! It's wonderful to see the joy you have in heirloom pieces, and to see the love you put into bringing it back to life. Just beautiful!
Hello! Bingewatching your videos and loving every moment of them. Also delightedthat you have found Howards products. I have been using them for years, and find them the best I have found for my wooden furniture. I know you love lemon oil, and he does a superb one, as well as an orange oil. I would love to see your living room coffee table after a year of oiling and regular waxing. 👍👍👍
What a beautiful piece! Such a blessing to be the next caretaker of this family piece. I would write down the family tree of this and store it in one of the drawers for prosperity. It really does look brand new.
I have to say you are a treasure, Sophia. The perfect person to care for these heirlooms, it is evident how much you care for your family. Beautiful dresser! The marble with the darker wood will look so handsome. I love how you explained what the drawers would hold back in the day, etc.
Just a lovely piece . Your hard work really shows even though it was in great condition.. I am going to try that wax as I have a few older pieces as well.... Enjoy your piece for many many years to come!
i think that painting the dining room a lighter colour would really make the furniture stand out and be the focal point! it just seems like it's blending into the red of the wall and since the dresser is so beautiful i think you should highlight it :) great video as usual !!
This is so beautiful. I really enjoyed watching you bring this piece carefully back to life. Thank you for choosing such nice music to accompany your video. So often the new music on many channels is loud and poppy, or just obnoxious. The music and video were lovely.
my daddy after retirement and mother spent their lastyears in restoring furniture or selling antiques. They would go out to estate sales, auctions, etc. I went with them alot and learned alot. Moreso about the furniture not the glassware .My mother loved all the glassware. My father died last year but up until 80 he was still putting furniture in a booth they had. Once they had a store. I can tell you that you have a very fine piece of furniture. My dad would hvave loved to see this video. I do not think he would do anything to it though especially as its in good shape and any color variations are from aging which adds to its character. I love the hidden drawer for the rifle. But yes you are correct in that a bowl and pitcher would go in the center. I loe antiques of any kind. I got that love from my father and mother. I even like the white knobs, i know they aren't original but they really look well with the white marbble for contrast. Howards feed and wax is the best.. . A little goes a long way. When you restore the oil in the wood iit really brings back the original color and shine. You have a beauty, girl!!!!!
Hello Sophia, wow this is a beautiful piece. You have done an excellent job of restoring this piece and it is in thee perfect spot. Thank you for sharing your life and all that you do. I'm motivated now!
Sophia I loved the way you cleaned the family heirloom it is gorgeous great job! I have an armoire that I should be doing that to! Have a greatday! Bye for now! Au revoir
Just magnificent Sofia!! Your loving attention to a piece of Family History really touched my heart. Thank You so much. Loved the story telling so much. Side note: your hair looks beautiful ...color ...shine...curls SOOOOO pretty.⭕️❌
