New Vintage Goodies

Time to unveil some new vintage goodies here at Relish!

The second is this lovely refinished dining table with Relish's signature bright green legs and a beautiful walnut-stained solid wood top - yummy!

The second is the incredible refinished desk or vanity, with the most beautiful drawer pull - vintage turquoise glass!!!! (sorry for the small photos!)

Come on in before these treasures get snapped up!

Flea Market Finds

I haven't blogged about thrifiting or flea markets in a while, and since my husband and I just found something AMAZING I thought I should share...

I had managed to drag Ilya to a flea market (NOT his idea of a fun Sunday morning) a couple of weeks ago to help me lift a table I remembered seeing there. Well the table was no longer there, but while we were wandering around Ilya suggested we check out one of the "antique" buildings. As soon as we walked in we both made a beeline straight for this huge, distressed harvest table we saw.

We loved it so much, we decided we just had to have it despite the fact that it was not in the budget, and we did already have a dining table. Whoops. Sometimes, these things just happen!

Luckily, it did actually occur to me that we should go home and measure the opening of our front door to make sure we could actually fit it inside the house if we brought it home. (I am never this organized, so I was very pleased with myself for thinking of this.) Turns out we had 2 inches to spare, so I zipped back up to flea market and bought the table.

The next weekend we recruited our large, strong friend to help us move it (it's solid wood and 7 1/2 feet long, so not a small feat), and we now have an awesome new dining table. And we didn't have to do a single thing to it! We love it!!!

What do you think??

This Week at Relish Vintage

Here are this week's additions to Relish Vintage. Now, a couple of these sold right away (which is awesome!) so they're no longer on the shop website, but I've included the photos here because they were just too cool not to share!

Upcycled Pedestal Dining Table

Vintage Mid-Century Pendant Light (sold)

Upcycled Wooden Kitchen Table (sold)

I've also documented my work on the upcycled stuff, which you can check out here for the Dining Table, and here for the kitchen table.

Project #2 Finished!

My second project from last week is now finally done! Here are a few pics of the whole work in progress...

Stage #1 - Had to recruit my boyfriend to help me get the table into the house - it weighs a ton! And notice the gross maple-coloured stain on the tabletop? It's gotta go.

Stage #2 - Sand down the whole thing (except the pedestal base, which was still in good condition). This is harder than it sounds, as I haven't splurged on an electric sander so I'm still doing this all by hand. My forearms are still aching.

Stage #3 - Start staining the tabletop.

Stage #4 - Finish off with a coat of urethane. (I'm saving the pain of illustrating the fact that I had to sand down the whole tabletop AGAIN after staining it. Ugh!)

A lovely closeup of the yummy wood grain NOT in a gross maple-coloured stain. Yes!

And a shot of Bertha posing with the table.