Baker furniture appears to be the top of the line...who else?
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Comments (11)Thanks, Holiday-ers! Appreciate all your gracious comments. PM...the corkscrew willow branches are used alot around here...I use big ones to stake up toppling flowers & just love the look of them...our son trims his trees alot so we take bunches to FMrkt, too...I use around bird feeders & such for them to perch. We have a couple planted here & they are fast growers! punk...bet your gourds did cross...love those bumpy ones, too... loved them on your t'scape centerpc! I like that bunny, too...his coloring is good for the Baker's rack. candy...~~blush~~thank you...& hope you try your B'Rack outdoors! jane...you make me smile...love 'enablers' on this forum! It's never too late to start a new collection, ya know! ;-) My pine greens keep ok outside for the Winter...I guess just cause of the coolness & later the ice & snow! (ugh) I use solar lights outside in the Winter, too...in a galvanized washtub near the birdfdr off the porch...they seem to do ok in the cold. nana...thank you...love to hear your comments! Jeanne S....See MoreGoing To Try.......Tips for 1st time Bread Baker?
Comments (16)I don't ever remember my mother making bread....but my father did. Not often and when he did it was with much flourishing and lots of praise from all present. My paternal grandmother baked bread fairly often in my mempry...and her mother in law ( my grandfather's mother) baked bread almost daily I recall. She ran a boarding house, so likely my recollection is accurate. My father taught me the basic kneading motion...once you learn, you never forget. I made bread often when I was pregnant for the first child. In those days you had to quit work at 3 months. amd we only had one car and my husband needed that, and it was winter....so I baked. I only had 2 cookbooks, so I pretty well baked my way thought Fanny Farmer. I remember going down to the shore when my daughter was 18 months, and I had to stay home while she napped and everyone else went to the beach, so I made bread... I had found some yeast in the cupboard and I had flour salt and milk....and no cook book....so I winged it....and it was wonderful! I had no bread pan, not even a cookie sheet, so I baked the bread on an upside down 9 by 12 cake pan! That made me realize that in home made bread, perfection is nothing when compared with the smell of bread fresh from the oven. I have made under baked bread, over baked bread, forgotten the salt ( just add extra butter when youe at it!) and forgotten to add the yeast until I realized that it didn't rise.....so I mixed the dry yeast into the dough, added a little more water to make it easy to knead and a bit more flour....so it wouldn't be sticky....and you would never know. It's really really hard to ruin bread. I repeat, just do it....you might waste $10 worth of ingredients and 4 or 5 hours of your time if you have about 4 to 6 failures in a row....but if you had gone to some cooking class, you would have spent more $$ and spent more time and learned 1/2 as much. Just do it! Linda C...See MoreVintage/ Antique Baker Furniture
Comments (27)OMG, that is so sweet and nice everyone! WMA8 & Martinca, yes that is exactly what DH & I have talked about me doing for a few yrs now & want to do. I really, really want to fix up cast off & cheap but quality finds and resell to people who would not otherwise be able to afford brand new. I think that we all deserve quality and heirloom pieces that aren't fads & made in China. Not everyone starting out wants their home entirely furnished in box store, cookie cutter, flat packed furniture. In fact I just got home from a pow wow w/ my boss & friend about why it was more preferable to me to reduce my hrs, follow a dream and keep a friend. Every time I wonder if I should wait 'just a little longer' you all give me such a good feeling about going for it and why it will work!! PS - still talking w/ seller. She e-mailed me to let me know that she spoke w/ Mr. Fox for awhile. She told me that w/ a deposit she would hold the bed and let me pay it off. So tempted. Really have to consider it and sit down w/ Mr. Fox. It's not that I don't have the money to pay for it - it's just that I have to make sure that Mr. Fox will refinishing the bed for me down the road. I have so much furniture that has required refinishing of chipping veneer that I don't think will ever see the light of day again. Her interest certainly seemed piqued when our truck pulled up so maybe I have found someone who can source things for me and/or keep me in mind first when she gets things from auction. PS - Our current mattress is very low profile but we desperately want a new mattress. What is the average mattress thickness now? Just thinking ahead and will take measurements. The four poster bed headboard height is 41". Baker tag is on bed. This post was edited by TheFoxesPad on Tue, Aug 26, 14 at 5:57...See MoreWhat do you think of this vintage baker's table I found?
Comments (50)Okay, if you decide you don't want the piece after diving into refinishing--I get first shot! Seriously, that is going to be beautiful no matter what you decide. I like to stay true to original finishes if it can still be functional. I have an aunt who also collects really nice antique furniture and her response to me once when I was trying to decide about a piece I was going to use was sometimes you have to to what you have to do to make it functional rather than just letting it sit around looing pretty. As far as preserving the original paint, if you are going to be using on a daily basis and not just as a display piece I would probably strip it (please, no knives!) and based on the back would bet the wood would clean up real nice. Regarding the wood, DH and I looked at your pic closely and we think at least the back is pine although when you get around to the front it would not be unusual for another wood such as maple or popular to be mixed in. If you knew where the piece originally came from it might also give you a hint as to the wood type. DH thinks the piece probably dates 1900-1920 based on one of the pieces of wood that looks like it went through a planer if that piece of wood is original to the table and the style of the pulls. Regarding the zinc--too bad it can't be salvaged. However, if you decide to use in your kitchen it might be your chance to get your marble which I think would look great. I will be reusing an old entertainment center base that is 72" long (would have loved to have found something like your table to stay truer to the kitchen style I am trying to achieve) and am getting a marble slab to go on the top. I was able to find a remnant piece that it could be cut from so was able to get a better price. I have really gone back and forth on the paint color and think I have decided on a grey-green or grey-taupey color which seems to bring out the veining in the sample I got rather than a lighter color I had originally looked at. Long way of saying, if you decide to paint it I would wait until you decide on your countertop material before picking paint color. Good luck - you got yourself a bargain!...See Moresombreuil_mongrel
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