Lemons into Lemonade!

In the following months, new furniture was arriving in the house every week! How fun! Patrick would come home every day wondering what he'd find. I was drawing up designs with different carpenters, and essentially testing out who I would like to continue working with through NAFASI as a business for future clients as well! I found some great people to work with, and of course some hiccups along the way too...

You saw my pretty apothecary being made on last week's blog. They delivered it without finishing, as I requested, and just leveled everything out and added my apothecary pulls. I was thrilled with how it turned out!!

Then I shopped around for the best wood stains, and tried a few out. This stain is great, and I think it turned out really beautifully, but it was a hugeeeee pain to work with. It stains everything. EVERYTHING immediately. Including my hands and nails for 2 weeks. :/ My own fault for not using gloves. But that's pretty difficult to do too in my opinion. :) But now that it's over, I forget all that and just love on my apothecary. :)

This nice chunky coffee table came unfinished too. On this one I tried an oil based stain that you brush on. It's much easier to work with, but the color is a little more orange. The biggest problem with this one though, was the wood glue they used while making it was all over the wood, and so it didn't stain so evenly. I was so upset! It looked pretty bad.