Tag: wood
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Vintage Suitcase Tables
In our spare time, we’ve been (admittedly slowly!) working on a series of tables made from vintage suitcases. This is the first one we’ve managed to finish and put up for sale. It’s in our space at the Fargo location of F.A.R.M. This one is in shades of vanilla and white. Yes, it opens! Spiffy…
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In The Mood For Red, White, & Blue
If you’d have seen the wifely lately, you’d know a bit about what we’ve been working on due the color of her hands. *wink* For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, we’ve just made these pretty (and rather large!) quilt block boards. Each board features a red, white, and blue star quilt block.…
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Handsome Vintage Wooden Smoking Stand Humidor with Freemasons Ashtray
An incredible vintage smoking table, smoke stand, or standing humidor — still with the original copper liner! But it’s the outside the fabulous outside details which really make this a standout vintage piece. Lots of parquet, turned legs and spindle side handles, little storage spaces… A very handsome smoking parlor piece. The ashtray which sits…
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Fargo-Moorhead, Repurpose With Vintage Gardening Ideas
Gardening in dressers & drawers is all the rage now. We posted a bunch of ideas on our Tumblr (this post specifically). And you can keep an eye on our Gardening Pinterest Board too. (As well as Facebook.) Just know that we have a slew of vintage wooden drawers over at F.A.R.M. – and we…
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Vintage Furniture, Anyone? Come To The Elkhorn Antique Flea & Get Some!
The opening weekend of the Elkhorn Antique Flea Market may have been rainy and not-so-nice, but we sold over half our inventory anyway! Since then, we’ve been focusing on restoring, repairing, painting, etc. of other furniture pieces in (and outside of) our shop. But here’s a sneak peek at some of what we’ll be bringing…
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Back To School Antiques
Part of our “back to school” display at Exit 55 Antiques, featuring an antique chalkboard, an antique Fox Typewriter from The Fox Typewriter Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan (anyone else remember typing “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”?), and plenty of old school books. As always, if you have any questions, contact…
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Signs From Antique Wooden Shingles
On a barn pick, I got a rather large box of antique wooden roof shingles. Since there are times one just has to put the piles of supplies to use, I began making a series of classic signs, such as “Gone Fishing”, “Welcome”, and the like. Of course, I had to make a few “Gone…
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Cuckoo For Old Cuckoo Clocks
Just a darling little vintage (nearly antique; circa 1930s) carved wooden cuckoo clock from Germany (or Austria) — just look at the the clock face framed by a pair of gnomes! Measures 10 inches tall; 9 inches wide (at the widest point of the roof), 5 inches deep. And, as you will see & hear,…
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Antique School Desks: Back To Antiquing Basics (Or How To Clean Antique Furniture)
While hubby and I thrill to go pickin’ for antiques in barns, there’s more than a little work involved in dealing with the not-so-nice side of “farm fresh”. “Farm fresh” really is an oxymoron; for the reality is that these items are typically covered in all sort of “ick” — like bird and animal droppings,…
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Vintage Inspiration
I don’t like to throw anything out, if I can help it. I suppose that’s true of most lovers of vintage items and antiques… Many of these “old used things” can go on to live another life — if you can only see what they can be! Sometimes, however, no matter how inspired I am,…
