
putting furniture pieces together
The piece of furniture I’m asked about most is the large antique cabinet in my studio. I totally understand why. It’s an impressive piece and one I would ask about if I saw it! If you read this blog regularly, you know its secret. It’s not one piece, but two. Not only is it two pieces married together, but two pieces that were found 1,000 miles and about three years apart. The bottom piece is a storage counter out of an old hardware store in Maryland. The top is a bookcase from the Wilder School in Minnesota. I bought it from a former student of the school who attended when it was just a one-room schoolhouse. I assured him it was going to someone who appreciated that. (The wood on both of these pieces was revived with Miss Mustard Seed’s Hemp Oil. The interior of the upper cabinet was painted









