by Michele | Dec 27, 2014 | Other
For the past 15 months, we have been seeking out a location for a second store front. I have looked at a dozen plus stores in Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma and Claremont. The first question a building owner or leasing agent asks is, “what do you...
by Michele | Dec 24, 2014 | Other
It’s been almost three full weeks since we brought nearly a dozen truck loads of furniture and boxes to the shop from our Farmhouse Salvage Project. I am finally starting to get ahead on some of the cleaning and inventorying of new merchandise! In fact,...
by Michele | Dec 16, 2014 | Other
If you follow us on facebook and instagram, you’ve seen endless posts of our farmhouse rescue project over the past 10 days! It’s been a whirlwind of crawling through dusty spaces, navigating rodents and spiders, and doing back breaking loading and...
by Michele | Nov 5, 2014 | Other, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
I painted this antique hope chest in French Linen with a wash in Coco, details in Old White and finished with Miss Mustard Seed’s Antiquing and Clear Beeswax. To see all the process pictures, check out our photo-tutorial on facebook and the image gallery on the...
by Michele | Oct 31, 2014 | Attention Shoppers, Holidays, Other
We have been terrible about staging furniture! Half the time, something sells before I even get a good shot of a finished piece. The other half I don’t have any place to set up a staging area to make it look pretty on camera. It’s such a problem that...
by Michele | Oct 8, 2014 | Other, Tips & Tricks, Travel
October is going to be a crazy busy month for me! We have some extensive plans for our weekends this month, starting last weekend with a getaway to Colorado. My husband and I left the kids at home and went for the weekend to celebrate the wedding of one of my close...