Antique Home Office Furniture

I bought some Maple Wood Desks and Book Cases for my home office, and I'm having the furniture stripped and re-finished.

The Room has Blue (Palatinate) Walls with White Trim. The Floors are Hard-wood (pine) with an "Antique Pine" Poly stain.

Given the present color scheme of the room, what color would you suggest I re-finish the furniture with? Someone suggested just painting it white, but I'm not a big fan of painted wood, plus it might be too much Blue & White going on. Any suggestions?

I think you have two options:

you either go for something dark, that would eventually redesign the feel of your home office (if sanded correctly, oak would fit best)

or try to increase this impression of blue & white to the point where color takes over the place. Canadian pine maybe?

Hope this helps,

Lloyd Burrell
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2010-07-17 16:05:19 by Gary Rajsich

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We just bought a great 1950s bungalow with 1500sq ft.
The issue is- the living room (when you walk in the front door, there is a low wall to your right, which seperates the entry from the living room, and is where the TV cables are in the wall)... it is about 22' long, 12' wide. If you put the couch against the wall, you're literally about 22' from the spot where the TV cables come into the house. WAY too far. We have a large overstuffed couch, love seat, 2 leather club chairs, matching retro style coffee table and side tables, a 40" lcd tv and stand. We had a small home, and everything fit very nicely, and seemed really cozy and family friendly. Now, we have double the space, but still the same amount of furniture. We bought all our furniture new in the past 2 years, so replacing it really isn't an option.
The living room also opens up onto the dining room (a big L shape, the small part being the dining room, so we really can't put a dining room in the big space of the living room to fill it up. I don't want to have a big empty spot in the middle of the room, between the TV and couch. And, I want to be able to entertain without people feeling stranded in an empty, non functional room. This room has me baffled. We move in June 1st and i'm almost having nightmares about how to go about furnishing the room, setting it up. My plan is just to stick the furniture in there and rearrange it till I'm satisfied.
Also, on the wall seperating the kitchen and living room (which SOMEDAY we want to cut a pass-thru into) I am planning on stenciling a large tree onto the wall, and hanging family photos on the tre...a family tree... and was thinking of putting the 2 club chairs against that wall with a stack of antique trunks in between them, as a table. That's the first wall you see when you come into the house.

I was thinking about putting the couch in the middle of the room, but then it would be in the way of the nice window seat that's there. I would love to be able to fit a home office in there somewhere. Move the couch from the wall, put a funky desk behind it, which would move the couch away from the wall and closer to the tv???

Colous will be green, grey, brown, very nature toned and calming. The room gets a TON of light. I want to make the room seem SMALLER, not larger.

Any tips?

Just put you TV on the short wall where it goes, then decide how close or far you want to be from it. Put your love seat width wise there. Put your couch lengthwise at the end of love seat with the front edges (corners) only touching each other. Place an end table in the corner (L) the two couches create.

2010-04-16 10:50:31 by melaniecampbell

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Decorative dentil molding
Measures 25-1/2 inches wide by 20 inches deep by 60-1/2 inches high
4 storage levels with 2 adjustable shelves; framed tempered-glass door; cutout back for easy wire management

Could really use some advice from people with good decorating sense. Our home is really rustic with exposed oak beams and tonge and groove cealings, wood walls (not paneling) and wood floors. The room for we are buying for is open so you would see my whole kichen, eating area and livingroom area when you walk in. We have already picked a really rustic oak table with antiqued black windsor chairs but when it comes to the color for the couches we are at a total loss. My husband is dead set agaist microfiber after a spill test at a furniture store last night and with 2 kids our better option is leather. With so much wood I'm hesitant to do brown but don't know if black would make it look too much like an office. Any ideas are appreciated.
Should add that although I personally love the idea of red that the husband is dead set against it.

Look around, what colors do you usually go to while shopping. Do you have any pillows that you might use for this new sofa? If so then take the pillow/s with you to the store and that will help you chose.

Microfiber is a substitute for suede. It doesn't breath well and doesn't clean as well as people say or think. If you like a certain sofa, you can ask if they haven it available in a CRYPTON fabric.... or can buy a CRYPTON fabric and have it upholstered. Crypton comes in all colors and a wide array of textures. And believe me, everything will bead right off the fabric, it breaths, looks and feels great! Perfect for kids and pets.

BUT, If you have you heart set on leather, then maybe a neutral, a cream/beige, you can wipe it off anyway! And bring color through the accessories and pillows. Because if in 6 months or so you get sick of a color you can always change the pillows!!!!!

Hope this helps.

2007-03-31 08:54:27 by CountryGirl

Price: $172.00

Some assembly required; matching computer desk and assorted tables available separately
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Country-style all-occasion chair adds cottage charm to décor

I feel my parents spend to much money!!! i'll list stuff they spend money on
-my mom has an infiniti fx45
-my dad has a lexus rx and a forde
-my dad has a black berry flip and an ipod nano
my mom has a samsung touch screen and an ipod nano
- we have a pretty big house its like 5.5k square feet theres 7 bed rooms and 3 bath rooms
- we also have 2 offices
-one has 2 dell flat screen computers in it
-the other has an hp flat screen computer
- are kitchen has all GE profile stainless steal stuff
- are house is on one of the most expensive roads in my area
- where right on the highest mountain there so every room over looks a really nice view of the mountains
- we have 3 fire places
-are house was $200 per brick to build the house
- we have 3 flat screen tvs one in the living room one in my parents room and one in my room
- are porch has really expensive lime stone expensive furniture and a stainless steal Barbeque
-are basement has a home gym, a den where my dad hangs out in, and a big open room for random stuff
-we have 5 acres
-and my parents always spend money on antiques and furniture

Do my parents spend to much?

It all depend in how much they make!! My parents make a lot so they spend a lot!!

2010-12-28 17:58:51 by cathy

I've known sense i was little i do not belong behind a desk in some tiny cubical, or in any office for that matter. I know I'm an entreprenuer...my 'calling' is to verture out and do something myself. The thought of working for someone else, as a 'worker bee' and 'conform' makes me extremly uncomfortable, and honestly irritated. I know i want to make a difference in a positive light, but im not sure if im on the right track. I thought fashion design was the path that made most sense. Designing clothes for 'real women' and inspiring them to be themselves instead of this unrealistic waffer thin clone that society is portraying to be 'perfect'. Well i tried that, but while at home this weekend i realized something. Fashion Design isnt it. ( In this moment i became confused.) So i prayed for guidence. Then while stripping all the paint off an old antique dresser it hit me... redoing old furniture and painting hidden messages of guidence. Can i really make a good living doing this?

YES, BUT since you say that you don't like working for someone else, even if you start your own furniture restoration business, you will STLL be working for someone else- the customer(s) or your clientel.
Keep in mind, having your own business restoring furniture means (hopefully) you will have many customers; each with their own expectations of what is perfect, satisfactory or even poor work on your part. So, it's really basically like working for someone else, except you have hundeds or more customers that each is little fifferent than a boss you must please. Each customer is as important as a boss, in the sense that if if you make even ONE of them unhappy it can affect your entire business venture, because it really is true one unhappy customer tells ten potentionl ones and they tell ten more potential ones, and so on. ONE unhappy customer is more critical to your self employment picture than MANY, MANY happy ones for that reason. An unhappy customer and all those they tell as I explained, for some reason NEVER forget your name/ business. A happy customer MAY only tell 1-3 people or none at all.. Even those 1-3 may not even recall your name/ business to pass it on. Sad, but it's a fact.

In a nutshell, it sounds like you certainly have the drive, experience, creativity, etc to make a go of it as long as you feel passionate about doing restoration as long as your main motive isn't to just not to have to work for someone else , you could be very successful.

PS, I understand that MOST women that are stick thin, diet, even starve themselves. There are many more like myself. I am extremely thin and have to figure out ways to add calories to the large, high calorie meals I consume, just to not look like a "wafer thin clone" as you put it. Some of us are blessed, or at times, feel more cursed to have a very high metabolism, no different than heavier women that have a low metabolism and have difficulty losing weight. I have had my thryroid checked and there's no medical cause for me being stick thin. I am 46 and have always had to struggle to gain or even maintain enough weight. I have friends that said they hated me just because they envied me being so thin, until they got to know me and realized I srtuggled just like them but to gain, not lose. So, PLEASE, keep that in mind before you rule those like me out as being "real women" as you put it. ;) They main need furniture restore too, so you have to quit judging people (your potential customers) based on maybe just your dislike of women that are thin. Of course, IMO, there's little difference in a woman that diets constantly to stay super thin than one that consumes wat too many calories knowing she is too heavy. Neither are healthy. There are women that are way too heavy despite healthy eating, exercise etc just like there are those like myself that are way too thin despite healthy eating. There are truly both too heavy women AND too thin women whatever reason ( normally metabolism high or low) just weigh what we weigh without starving ourselves or gorging either. In those cases, that's just how our particular bodies were meant to be, IMO.

2008-05-05 00:09:44 by ~Styles Madly~