Here’s my brass polishing tutorial video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i66FzsF7l5bAZJM.htmlsi=wchiQWaEny_EVhxU ✨✨✨✨

Laura I would love it if you did a video on how you research! It seems you are awesome at finding info. I feel like I don’t get answers a lot of the time when I am researching 😅.

@modelno2004

6 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@Alex-dz2et

6 ай бұрын

Good research often relies on asking the right questions…

@amyweaver7413

6 ай бұрын

Yes!👏❤️👏

@1marieleathem

6 ай бұрын

Just basically asked the same thing prior to seeing your post.

@tlew9429

6 ай бұрын

Yes please

Hey Laura, those tables you found were made in my hometown of Celina, Ohio. My great parents and grand parents worked in the plant there Making that furniture. My 88 yo mother and I both still have items made at the plant. Good find!! Love your videos. 😊

@LindaKayHolevas

6 ай бұрын

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing! 😊

I really can’t get over how nice your Goodwill is. It looks more like a tidy department store. Our Goodwill shelves are always a cluttered mess.

I agree, Laura. I believe in living lightly on the earth. I am about to move to North Carolina from NY and we have decided we are going to take bare minimum furniture with us and look to buy different stuff there. After all, most furniture in America is MADE in NC! So I expect to find tons! However, at an online auction - right here in my home town - I found a couch and chair that I loved. It was the week between Christmas and New Year's and there wasn't a lot of bidding going on. Got the chair, couch and a coffee table that I have plans to restye - for 2 bucks each! It was five minutes from home to pick up and we slipped it right in the POD in the driveway that is filling up with boxes. I couldn't believe it! Our goal is to have NOTHING in our home that isn't thrifted. Last night a friend helped me bring home a dining table that I love and plan a really wild restyle of. Again - 5 minutes from home. I plan on starting to do You Tube videos called Granny's Vintage Gypsy - Living Lightly On The Earth. My motto is "We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors - we borrow it from our grandchidlren." Let's give them a better life by reusing, revamping, recycling, redecorating and keeping stuff out of the landfills. Remember - that chip on that vase can always be turned to the back!! Take it home and love it!

@vickiehanan5686

6 ай бұрын

Welcome to NC. Where in NC are you moving too ? I live near Hickory but plan to put my house on the market in May or June . I'm headed back to TX !

My best thrifting day, and year was after SAVERS came to Australia. I went in one day, collected a cart of vintage pottery, art, linens. I still have most of the pottery. Since I have found gold, emeralds, Art NOUVEAU enamelled pewter. Original art, stunning prints. Rugs, curtains, stunning fabrics.

All antique and most vintage furniture pieces are made from real wood, not particle or plastic, as many modern pieces are made today. So, I believe we all should salvage as much of this as possible. Living trees, that help filter the air we breathe have died for those pieces of furniture that are going to a landfill. We need to appreciate the workmanship and art all these fine things.

What makes your channel special is that you give ideas on styling with the found items…keep on thrifting!

Hey Laura gal! I declare, sometimes what you pick up I'm like...🤔😬😖. But then when you get it home, clean it and style it up I'm like...😲🤯😍!!! You are so talented and have such a good eye for decorating. My style is different, but I definitely appreciate and enjoy yours. That's what makes thrifting so much fun, so many things and styles for all tastes. And, I have been searching for several months to thrift a specific kind of bookcase to go in a very specific area. I am thrilled to say I finally found exactly what I wanted at our local Restore this past Monday! We got it home, cleaned it up, used a touch up marker on some scratches and it looks great in the space! It pays to be patient and vigilant! Btw, you are so pretty and the video with you and your husband thrifting together on New Year's Eve was a joy to watch. You and Jesse are so sweet and it's easy to see the love, respect, and friendship between you. My hubs and I were HS sweethearts our Senior Year. We will be married 33 years this September. He is still my best friend as well as the love of my life. We love going thrifting and antiquing together. I have a feeling that you and Jesse will still be doing this together when you celebrate your 33rd anniversary and beyond. 😉😊 Take care. Blessings from The Bluegrass State💙🐎🎻🪕🌾🙏🫶

You are THE queen of Boho! You have such an incredible eye for arranging and designing inspirational displays. Really enjoy the many ways you display a item in different ways.

Laura, what finds!? So thrilled for you. Still, maintain that your videos are the best on YT! ❤

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

🥰 Thank you so much! I love that you appreciate the work I put into them!! 😘

@katem3961

6 ай бұрын

Always ☺️

Super video and finds! The metal floor lamp at the end is called a bridge lamp because it was used to light a card table without disturbing the playing surface. If you Google "bridge lamp" you will see the different types of glass and fabric shades that were used on them.

My favorite metal cleaner is the liquid Bar Keeper’s Friend. It shines your metal in 20 seconds. Zero scrubbing required. Just wipe it off.

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

I’ll have to try that!!

@silviahigh

6 ай бұрын

My go to also but I also just found “That Pink Stuff” paste which works awesome too. Give it a try.

OMG! There were so many things I love that I can't even remember them all. I do remember that stunning blue lantern. I LOVE it! And the deal you got on the 3 tables. Oh! The table with the waves! Incredible and beautiful! Great video. My jaw dropped several times.

Your blue Moroccan lantern will be perfect there! What a great bunch of stuff you’ve been finding.👏❤️👏 and what a stunning transformation on that beautiful Cooper planter.

@onlyluvisreal6691

6 ай бұрын

I love that so much ❤❤❤

I shouted out loud when the 3-piece furniture was half off! Way to go! The thrill is real!!!

Wow - the copper planter! Definitely a thrifting drought going on here due to ridiculous prices at the stores.

@nicolad8822

6 ай бұрын

More and more people are looking in Goodwill just to decorate their own homes, they aren’t looking to flip so they are prepared to pay more and the goodwill stores know this. Why should they give things away, especially if they are raising money for good causes?

I love going shopping with you. But the best bit is seeing it styled at the end. Wow the planter box was outstanding after cleaning.

@judytelles3518

6 ай бұрын

On antique roadshow whenever brass or copper was cleaned the owner had lost thousands of $/£ off the piece.

@MoniqueSmulders

6 ай бұрын

Yes more styling video’s please Laura!

Hi Laura! Fellow Portlander and Antique dealer/collector... The lamp you described as Art Deco with the light and dark varied woods is called in the trade "Marquetry lamps" - you can see them listed on ebay, Etsy, and online sellers under that name. A lot of people will say they are mid-century rather than earlier Art Deco so more 50's and later. I saw a while back you had a striped bowl - that was done in the same way. They aren't inlaid - they take strips of contrasting wood and alternate them - then when glued up and turned on a lathe, it gives you the look like your lamp and that shallow bowl. Also, the wave chest is classic 1910's-1930's era - probably English and it is made out of Oak - classic Edwardian to beginning of Art Deco period. Cool stuff as always!! Take care!

@leftcoastrevivals

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this info!!! 😄

I cannot get enough of watching your cgannel. As a Finn the Arabia if Finkand jug makes me so exited! I really loce your fibds and your program. So great. I love it!

That copper planter....amazing !

So many great finds! I am in love with the Asian-inspired chest, it’s beautiful & the copper planter is magnificent! I have an old copper planter that I am now inspired to clean up. Thanks Laura!

@pamelawhitaker3593

6 ай бұрын

Amazing transformation!

i found that same console table and attributed it to lou hodges, i love it,however, my die hard MCM collector friends informed me that lou never designed for mersman. i can’t say for sure, but when they showed me examples of hodges designs, they are way clunkier and no pieces i was shown used glass. again, i have no authority here, just wanted to share as a loyal viewer. ❤️

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this info! I’ll do some more digging. I’ve always seen these attributed to him but I definitely don’t want to be a part of that problem if it’s incorrect 👍

@gigisielaff

6 ай бұрын

@@leftcoastrevivals again, i ,am trusting those more knowledgeable than I. i bought the console table around 6 months ago, and my online research led to your same conclusion. i posted it in my stories as “lou hodges for mersman.” iand that is how i received feedback. i am a reseller, as well, and this came from fellow dealer friends. regardless, i think it’s a fine piece. xoxo

I literally said, "Wow!' out loud as you showed the before & after of that copper planter. Beautiful job!

@leftcoastrevivals

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Worth the achy elbow 😆❤️

The planter looks gorgeous!

Always good to watch a Laura video!! You have the sweetest spirit

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

Oh thank you! ☺️ So glad you like to join me thrifting!

@bonniejosavland3227

5 ай бұрын

@@leftcoastrevivalsa good teacher 🧑‍🏫 too!🎉

Absolutely love the blue Moraccan lantern. Would love to see it completed and hung.

I love the art work and how you displayed it above the chest of drawers. You have such a good eye for staging and you also know when less is more. S.

I really admire the way you research the history behind your found items and your willingness to share that knowledge with the people who follow you. In the 60's my father furnished our victorian with items from auctions, estate sales, and "junk" shops. It was an education and he was big on researching what he found. I have learned so much from you and have decided you're never to old to change things around. Thanks to you MCM furniture, lamps, pottery and have become so much fun to find and put in my house. When I add an item I donate an item so hopefully people will be able to use what I have enjoyed for years. You are an inspiration.

@tammieparrishmiller3669

6 ай бұрын

So nice!

Gorgeous cleaned brass planter.

Laura you always pick up the most beautiful, stunning pieces. I love your style so much and you're so talented at putting it all together!! Can't believe how quick you started finding amazing things in this video lol. Thanks for another great video:)

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

Imagine the game changer Laura, if you were to get a van or such like for your business, to transport your hauls. 😊

@nicolad8822

6 ай бұрын

Definitely, with some good signage it would be mobile ad platform for the business.

Wow, the planter is outstanding after cleaning. I love watching your videos, they make me happy and inspired 😃

Hello from Canada !! I'm so addicted to your videos !!! You are the Perfect Thrifter - Chef Kiss !!

We haven't been thrifting as much. My mothers household goods got here from Germany and we have to fit it into our house.

Swede here! Fun fact about Swedish glassware, it's almost illegal to take off the original sticker from them. 😅 I always do anyway, I'm not a fan of stickers, but it's super common amongst Swedes to never remove them. When they have to wash the item, they're always super careful about not getting it wet and accidentally removing it lol. cray-cray in my opinion. 😵

That copper planter looks amazing! How gratifing.

Laur...a!! The copper art @ 17:11 - :12. Is that Wiinblad?? I love it! Love all things Bjorn. Also love your eclectic/mcm/bohemian/brutalist so fun style. You shop like I shop. It's almost like the pieces are screaming our name, drawing us over and telling us "PICK ME"! So much fun, especially considering I'm 21 yrs older. You've got great taste hun! You have such an amazing area & selections to choose from. If only my old body could tolerate that damp Oregan climate! I would love the views from those coastlines & forests. Please let me know if that piece is Wiinblad. I thought you may have found on your latest trip to Belgium. I'll go back & watch. ❤

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

I was never able to confirm the identity but it definitely has that look to it! I found it in London this fall at a flea market for 10 euros 😍

@antonellabassi3466

6 ай бұрын

It sure looks like a Wiinblad. What a lovely piece!

@antonellabassi3466

6 ай бұрын

It sure looks like a Wiinblad. What a lovely piece!

@antonellabassi3466

6 ай бұрын

It sure looks like a Wiinblad. What a lovely piece!

@antonellabassi3466

6 ай бұрын

It sure looks like a Wiinblad. What a lovely piece!

The thrifting around Salt Lake City has been phenomenal! I’ve found a Fenton nativity trio, Iitala glass candle holders and Finland of Arabia red cooking pots just in the last week! Thanks for the copper cleaning tips!

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

🥳🥳🥳

That cabinet with the waves . . . . I have no words. Just phenomenal! Lots of treasure is this vid. Thanks, Laura and Happy New Year!

Dear Laura, I found you “by accident” about a month ago. You are sooo fun and I love your videos. Since finding you, I have clicked on other thrifters. Their videos are sub par compared to yours! Love your music and your information and enthusiasm! My mom and her friend went thrifting all the time. It was their jam, however they usually only bought clothes and shoes. When she passed away my sis and I donated it all back except her thrifted evening gowns that I gave to a relative who is a talent director, she was happy! So, I always used the goodwill to go get farm clothes for the grandkids! Hahaha. I had no idea about thrifting to resale! So I decided to see what my area had, not having too much hope. My first day out I found four pairs of cool shoes and leather boots, a neat vintage jacket for Christmas parties, Levi’s for $1.50 like new, and a Mikasa crystal bowl! Gha! I was hooked! Next I found a silver plated cream and sugar set from the 20’s! It’s so neat! Also found some designer handbags, and I love using the Google search, but I’m afraid to buy to much of these because I can’t tell the fake ones. BUT my real purpose is to stage a house we are getting ready to sell, using only thrift pieces!!! I will send you pics when I get it done. It will be my first staged sale. This is why I love your staged finds so much!! They are so appealing and beautiful. Also, I’m a blue and green girl myself, so I love almost all your finds. I doubt I will ever be a an on line seller and compete with you, however I will not be buying as much new stuff for my wardrobe and my home from now on! I’m a recycler and this is just the next level! Keep up the good thrifting and videoing! I’m lovin' it! Your friend from Missouri, Betty Jean

I used to have a hammered copper apron sink. When something got into it that would upset the patina I would use a rag and dawn dish soap to scrub out the bottom evenly then use olive oil to coat the bottom. Left for a couple of days the color would come back up.

Love your BoHo style! Beautiful finds! 😊

Laura Note to Self: 1. Take shipping container when travelling abroad. 2. Take towable trailer when thrifting at home. ❤😂 Great and fun finds!!

I’m excited for you finding the tables. And so cool to learn about the hand carved Brazilian spice shakers. !

The wave dresser and the brass planter: Wow!!!!!!

i would not change that blue glass lamp would put fairy lights in it and leave it as it is , great find !

Wow beautiful pieces. Love your stlye. 😊

Thanks Laura. I love your upbeat delivery and wealth of info. Let us know when you decide to do a vid on how you research your treasures. ❤

@bkyms

6 ай бұрын

Yes, please!

Great finds! Laura, can we get a home tour please? Your home looks beautiful. I love the way you style items

Laura, dearest... perhaps time to consider a larger vehicle? We want to see you stuff your car to the gills AND be safe. You're precious!

Thank you so much for the tutorial!!! Last night I scored (for 10$!!!!) an antique copper floor standing champagne ice bucket that I intend to use as a plant stand and I knew exactly what products to use thanks to you! Merci Laura! ❤

I LOVE YOU GOT THE TABLES AND SPACE IN-BETWEEN.

You are amazing with putting all vintage items together. You are gifted with your talent. Thank you for inspiring 😊

Loved how you put the Swedish bowl with it's fellow country men😄 The teapot is beautifull.

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

It just felt like it belonged there 😄

@rikkemeek1506

6 ай бұрын

@@leftcoastrevivals 😃

I love wooden decor, and you have been finding beautiful pieces. I can only dream

I actually LOVE Brasso! It will take plating off, so I only use it when that is my intention (it works great for if I have a gold over silver piece that has mostly worn off in a not-so-good way). Or, when something is a solid metal like copper or brass. And if you don't put wax on afterwards, a new patina will develop pretty quickly. Plus it as pretty inexpensive, as far as liquid polishes go. I also love copper, so many times I will rescue a piece of vintage jewelry that is too far gone as far as the overlaid finish, by taking it down to the base copper - Brasso is, for me, the best for this.

❤I HAVEN'T WATCHED A VIDEO OF YOURS TWO TIMES IN A ROLL IN A WHILE ❤❤❤ YOU HAD SO MANY GREAT FINDS THAT I HAD TO WATCH AGAIN.

That colorful tea pot is incredible. Love it!!

What a great eye you have! I am always impressed at how you immediately know when a piece is worth picking up and how you ultimately style it up. Love watching your videos- you are always an inspiration.

Love the blue vintage Moroccan lamp!

Love, love, love ❤️ the video 😍 I have to agree that the little Mexican horse is so cute! Love from Australia

Love, love, love the styling section in the middle of your video! How beautifully done! And of course I have those same 3 JB books all stacked in the same order! ❤️❤️❤️

Hi I really enjoy watching you thrift. You have such a good eye for unusual things and are perfect at arranging your finds

You have a very special eye and talent … and educated about your craft

You could add a little teal paint rub n buffed on that copper planter. I did it to drawer pulls that I painted copper…my grandmother whispered to me your secret for removing tarnish using lemon, baking soda and steel wool. Guess it looked authentic enough.

Laura remove your backseat headrest,unless you have regular passengers,it will give you better sightlines and space for long items. Love your channel.

Laura, I am so happy that you bought the "Lorraine" vase! I need that in my life!

You find the most unusual and interesting things! That copper planter is amazing!!

Fun video...looks like we all are impressed with that planter!

I didn't know that green stuff came off of copper. I thank you.

Great finds - we don't see things like that around here in my part of New England in thrift shops because most people don't buy them to begin with. The carved tagua, aka vegetable ivory nut shakers are awesome - that material was popular for sewing items and also clothing buttons. Very labor intensive to process the nuts to prepare them for molding, carving, or turning so they stopped using them. Paris was ahead of us in the 1860's then tagua became popular in the US during the 1920's. Enjoyed seeing what you got and you did a great polishing job too with that planter!

The blue lantern looks fab in your office e space.

I had so much fun watching this video! So many cool things that really got me fired up!

your floor lamp is a 1930-1940s bridge lamp. the original cord looks like 1930s to me

Can’t wait to see the blue hanging lamp lit up!

OMG! I bought the coffee table , 2 end tables and sofa table in 1979!

Omg! I literally won an auction for wave earrings an hour before I watched this. Mine are TAXCO sterling with gorgeous bright blue lapis for the waves 🌊

I'm in northern Sweden, and I basically only have access to two small Red Cross charity shops in two tiny towns, so the pickings are usually slim, but the past year has been really bad, I have hardly been able to find anything. Fingers crossed for better times! ^_^

Love the happy tea pot.and the blue Moraccan lamp to be😊

Great haul, Laura. Happy new year.

I live here in Vancouver and I love to go to all these thrift stores! Going today!!

Oh my gosh, I love that teapot. I am so into color!

Laura, i had those tables in 1990 as well as a square coffee table that went with it. They were pricey back then! Hope you got a good deal!❤

The shakers you found are also called vegetable ivory. There are beads and old sewing egg thimble holders made from it.

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

Oh wonderful! Thank you for sharing this info 😄

Hi Laura! 🌺 Karen at Lavender Clothesline says PA has the best goodwills, but I say your area is prob # 1 w/ PA coming in at #2. (Sorry Karen; nothing but love.)

@elizabethwhite196

6 ай бұрын

Well, I live in the Pittsburgh area and that’s debatable!😂Laura’s Goodwills seem so much bigger and cheaper. I’ve found some fabulous finds- don’t get me wrong but I also say it’s all about the luck of the thrifting Gods!haha. Hit or miss, but the hunt is always fun. Always more enjoyable when you can walk out with at least something in your hands tho!❤

I found an awesome chunky necklace that was stamped by a famous jewelry store in Turkey. I found it at a thrift store in Tennessee

You have a good eye for finding things.

Still finding items like this on the curb on garbage day. Have two similar lamps but have yet to find the proper shades….have attached a similar Moroccan lamp to it. Good eye…nice finds. Many don’t realize the value of vintage.

Love your videos. And love the way you make up your eyes. Would LOVE a tutorial on that. ❤

Wow! Form and texture overload 🤯 Just beautiful things styled to perfection ❤️ You are so very talented 💫

@leftcoastrevivals

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊 ❤️

So many wonderful things ! Love it.

Hi Laura! That beautiful iron lamp is called a working or a reading lamp! It would have been placed behind or to the side of a chair or loveseat, then the person could read or knit & have plenty of light! Great find!! As for a shade, some fabric ones or even a glass one would work! Enjoy your haul! And thanks for letting us go with you to treasure hunt!!🥰😊❤️

Thank u laura ❤❤ love how all the decor keep out beautiful 🎉

Love going on thrifting journeys with you❤❤ and seeing the final look

Always the best things!! You just have an eye for it 👍🏻

Amazing finds! Girl you are so gifted❤

My fave vintage KZreadr

Laura I got chills when I saw that blue lantern with the other ones! Perfect!!

Ugh guess I have to spend all week thrifting 😃😃😃😃