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@T_P_343

Жыл бұрын

What kind of scraper do you use?

I am not a wood worker, but I am a quilter. In the quilting world there is a much loved expression: "Finished is better than perfect!" Sometimes the finished product is greater than the sum of its parts. I personally think this refurbished cabinet is very lovely, and I would be thrilled to own it. 😊

@DashnerDesignRestoration

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@JamieM470

Жыл бұрын

Well said! I would also be thrilled to own it! I love seeing old & abused furniture restored to beauty. Great job.

@nomadine85

Жыл бұрын

I misread that as “quitter” and had to read it again 😅

@TheGooglyminotaur

Жыл бұрын

@@nomadine85 same, but I felt it more before I figured it out. 🎉

@tmm6884

Жыл бұрын

I needed to hear that while trying to complete my first day project. I painted the sane 3 pine dressers for months! It was misery. They look fine, but fine was killing me. But, they're finished.

After watching you work on it so long I was also thinking, hmm. This one isn't as beautiful as some of your others. But I went back to look at its original state and it was staggering. Returning to the finished restoration I was deeply impressed by it's quiet, gentle beauty. I've never been a blonde furniture enthusiast but you made trash back into treasure. A total rebirth!

@martywilsonlife

Жыл бұрын

Not as beautiful by our taste, but authentically sweetly mid-century modern. In person the wood must look and feel very luxurious.

Felt your frustration on this one, enjoyed the video as always. Especially your note on the locking joints, and the mystery removed feet. Impressed with the result! And it puts things into perspective about how some things can seem hopeless/irreparable, when that is not the case at all.

@DashnerDesignRestoration

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@swimrski

Жыл бұрын

This comment can apply to people, too.

@northerngirl4666

Жыл бұрын

Just like life! Just keep trying!

This piece feels so storied. Like it's already had a bunch of lives. The legs off and then on, the handles changed, holding a server... It's also very cool seeing how different hobbies/crafts MacGyver things (eg the dental floss) to do whatever needs to be done.

Steven: your restoration was exceptional on this piece. You were up against a lot of issues and handled them well. As an interior designer, I was sorry that that hardware piece went missing. (Although I do understand how that happens.) This piece can fit into many types of rooms and can be very functional besides looking really good. Super! Carol from California

@thompson1374

Жыл бұрын

I’m wondering if the hardware piece ever showed up. That’s usually how it happens with me! 😊

I agree with a lot of the other comments on this one: the live narration is great. Feels way more personal and engaging. Nice work, as always 👍

You seemed pretty uninspired by this piece, yet you still committed skill and energy to the project. Really beautiful work - loved your repairs on the veneer and attention to color. Great job and great tenacity!

Loved the pacing on this vid and the visibly in person narration. Thanks for the hard work I love these videos.

@DashnerDesignRestoration

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@cheriseking4945

Жыл бұрын

I haven't noticed the in person narration from Dashner until this video and for some reason it makes the videos even more impressive to me.

The time you put in to the smallest detail is amazing. Most of us wouldn’t have noticed the small areas you filled in. What a beautiful piece.

Thank you for taking the time to walk through your process and share! I feel like I learned so much. I have a midcentury record cabinet that appears to have sustained some water staining on the feet, and some wear on the top of the doors, but never considered restoring it myself, I just resigned myself to love it as it is. I don't know that I'm ready yet, but your dedication and patience on a piece that was in much worse condition has me taking it under consideration.

@bluecurlygirl

Жыл бұрын

I'm undertaking mid century dining chairs thanks to Dash and a few more like him. Isn't it wonderful to have such fabulous knowledgeable generous people willing to share what they know so freely? I love youtube for that reason.

@sandyvillanueva4679

Жыл бұрын

@@bluecurlygirl Dash rocks! I've transformed several pieces without painting them. Just letting the beautiful wood shine through. That is what drew me to his channel. 👍

@bluecurlygirl

Жыл бұрын

@@sandyvillanueva4679 Absolutely and good on ya. I'm not adverse to painting but I love a good restoration..

@M5TABBYCAT

Жыл бұрын

@@bluecurlygirl So true. So grateful that all these wonderfully experienced craftspeople share their work and knowledge.

Renovating the cabinet AND making this long video are equally impressive. For your viewers who are accustomed to just seeing your hands and the piece you are working on, I was surprised to see a glimpse of your face! 😊

@rockinsockmonkey8033

Жыл бұрын

I had to pause the video, I was so shocked 😄

@boa1793

Жыл бұрын

And then there was a bee and a fly.

@chloebelle4923

Жыл бұрын

@@rockinsockmonkey8033 what part of the video? I missed that! 😊

@LLopez-sx1jr

Жыл бұрын

@@chloebelle4923 around 36:00 and 40:45

@chloebelle4923

Жыл бұрын

@@LLopez-sx1jr oh, thanks for taking the time to let me know! 🥰

I really like the look of this piece. I think it’s easy to dismiss old furniture as “old fashioned” forgetting how nice they once looked out of the showroom. You sir are a time machine.

I'm about 2/3 through this and I couldn't have imagined you'd get it down to bare wood. I would have bondo'd it up and just painted it. Really grateful to learn so many techniques to restore the beauty of the grain.

@TheMrAshley2010

Жыл бұрын

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@JB-3794

Жыл бұрын

Why the bondo? I thought that was for missing wood. I see nothing here where bondo could be used.

@ileneahrens8741

Жыл бұрын

Agree, I would have painted it too. He has patience.

I absolutely loved seeing the various difficulties you had with this piece. It helps amateurs like myself understand that it's okay tho struggle and be frustrated, and that patience is often rewarded! Thank you!

The cricket that lives in your shop provides the perfect ambient background music : -)

I like the real-time audio along with the voiceover. This piece, as always is just an amazing transformed to a beautiful piece!

@SonicBoone56

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too, the real time audio

@J5L5M6

Жыл бұрын

@@SonicBoone56 ditto! It's interesting how much something so subtle stood out so much.

I love that you kept the original look of this piece, making it a true restoration, rather than something that looks totally different. Lovely work!

It looks great and will go on to be a useful piece of furniture in someone’s home with new stories to tell. I’m so glad you saved it!

Wow, that was a lot of TLC on this curbside piece. Looks amazing and watching you work through the issues was very informative. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you would do differently.

Very nice. You saved this cabinet.

It looks great! I love that it doesn’t look over done/over restored. I agree with adding the paint right at the end. That really helped pull it together. I recently bought a vintage oak wheeled office chair and watching your videos has given me the courage to try working on it myself. I feel much more prepared about where the challenges may lie, and what tools I may need. Thanks for all you do!

@normabuehlmann9131

Жыл бұрын

Keep the handle parts. Now that you no longer need them, the part will show up.

I know you're not sure about it, but I love this one and would proudly put it in my house. I will likely use your white gel stain process on a future piece myself! Thanks for sharing your hard work!

After 3 years this is the first video I have found with this finish and the problems with the wood veneer. Thank you. I have a dresser that is in this same odd color.

Don't think I've ever seen more tutorials on one piece of furniture. I have seen some pieces that I would have pulled out the matches. This one deserved a stick of dynamite! But it got a beautiful makeover by a person with more patience than most. Great job!

Really great video, honestly it's good to include a project you weren't 100% happy with, it still looks great and it shows that frustration is part of the process. Excellent work

I believe the original finish was cerused. The wood was brushed with a wire brush which created tiny grooves in the wood. Then a limestone slurry was applied. After it dried, the wood was sanded leaving white lime in the grooves. It is a very upscale and desirable finish in the design world. Your refinish was wonderfully done.

The original finish is called limed oak. My parents’ 1950s bedroom suite has the same finish.

Hard to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you came close. Thanks for another great video.

I like it, maybe because I saw lots of blond furniture in my younger days and nostalgia is nice. You have created something of value again. 😊

Awesome job. It's not my preferred style or color of furniture, but I love that you brought it back from destroyed to respectable. Beautiful work!

I’m truly impressed by your patience and skills. I’m not so sure I would’ve kept on after 3 days. I’m really glad you did. The server has an elegant new look and would most definitely be easy to sell. Congrats 👏 🇨🇦

Looks one hundred percent better. You saved it from the landfill. Lovely vintage side board.

Looks great! It was a yucky mess prior. I like the tan color you put on the bottom rail and the top of the drawers. I think it looked really great with the blonde outside finish ....so much so that it would look great in the interior and could be used as a bar or liquor cabinet. Just a thought. My dad had made a coffee table with blonde wood in high school shop,he is 91 now. So I have had it for over 30 years! I don’t really like the blonde so I used multiple stains and oil paint in tans, gray, a kinda teal blue and a fairly darker green and then a white pickling and I still really like it.

Very nice. I appreciate your patience and attention to detail and perfection. I can hear your furniture makeovers saying "thank you!'

It's always a pleasure to watch you at work, and this piece really called for you to employ your full bag of resto tricks! The real time narration was a nice addition, too. The final result may not be your fave, but it turned out lovely just the same. Cheers from NE Florida.

Looks awesome! I love seeing how you problem solve and change your mind as you are working. I learn so much watching you! 🤓

I love that light mid century stuff, I have a couple pieces that need some restoration but did not know how to restore the original look, now I do, thanks so much.

Can't believe you fixed that top, good job, as usual.

My husband and I have been following you from the beginning and have learned so much from you! We have a refinishing business in Utah. The most important thing we’ve learned is to have patience in the little details. One question I have is how you decide to use Super Glue or wood glue. Thanks for taking the time to film yourself and teaching us how to do things correctly.

Thank you for posting this video! I learned so much. I have a blonde piece sitting in my garage waiting to be refinished, and this video will help me so much. Hope you have a great weekend!

I loved this longer video. The cabinet turned out lovely!

I'm so jealous you manage to find all these bargains. Great work as always.

This really was an amazing transformation and you did an incredible job. I enjoyed this video very much and your challenges with this cabinet reminded me that things can always be better with some effort and thought.🌸

Do you think, if we went through all the vids, we could construct a composite image of you?

You are so generous to your share your knowledge, process and uncertainties. It takes courage and tenacity to capture/share all that you did in this video. I learned much from it, and admire you/your work.

I throughly enjoy your videos! Thanks! I've noticed that when watching you restore I appreciate the attention to detail because I look at each piece as a living entity. Through skill, talent and care you bring back to life an otherwise rejected, unsalvageable person...um...I mean piece of furniture.

I think you did a good job, the end result is pretty nice, that paint definitely brought it together. I needed a stool to be darker to match a dressing table for my mum and because of those white bits I just ended up painting it brown haha, it's definitely a pain when they use that stuff

Loving the live VO on this video! Your creative style continues to shine through even with the change.

I too, liked the live narration. Great job once again. Thanks for sharing your skills.

Great job Dashmaster! You are a very good teacher and I appreciate that you don't expect perfection. The white gel stain was a great idea. I'm going to remember that. 🙂

So glad you added the push locks! It looks so much different (in a good way) without the handles. The color looks nice with the piece too. Nice work!!

Bringing the top back to life with the acid was amazing. Very impressed. Well done! Love your videos, so relaxing to watch.

I enjoy your casual pace so much and was very excited to see a new video from you. This looks really good, the filled in door holes are invisible (at least to the casual eye). I myself prefer these blonde pieces over the old dark dark finishes. I have a blonde radio/phono cabinet that looks nearly identical to this piece down to the drawer pulls. They would look good together!

Really good look on this one, regardless of how it looked on the side of the road, always do great work. The point on the dolly bowing the base up causing the doors to catch is a classic example of the tunnel vision that can happen when working on a project. Really enjoyed how you highlighted that

Thank you for the torsion/dolly pressure and shim on the hinge lessons. Those were great to see as an explanation for those problems. It’s possible that those strips screwed to the bottom are there to hold or pull the front and the back closer together. At least when I saw the space at the corner angle, that’s what I thought. I like your patience!

Well done! You patience is enviable.

This looks so much better! I feel for the clean lines of this piece, the magnetic door hardware is an upgrade. The finish looks much better, too. Great job! Thanks for posting 👍

You always amaze me with your skills to restore these wonderful pieces of furniture. I always recommend your channel in the MCM groups on Facebook whenever someone says a piece is too far gone for restoration. This piece looks great & although you lost a piece of the original hardware I like your solution. This piece looks great & beautifully functional for several different rooms.

It looks amazing! I can't believe you were able to transform it that well!

Outstanding! One less for the landfill and a charming and elegant piece for someone’s living room. Kudos!

Nice save! Keeping it out of the landfill and putting it to use again! Learn something new every time I watch. Thanks

What a transformation! Your perseverance paid off! Great job!

That stuck pin coming out was very satisfying!

What a transformation 👏! It came out very well in my opinion. Keep up the great work.

Very nice. I appreciate the details you speak of throughout your processes.

Great job! I love how this piece turned out!❤. It’s so nice to see your video again. Love your channel!!

This particular style of furniture aka mid 50s to 60s ( i lovingly call it Dick Van Dyke style) is making a serious comeback. Clean lines along with those characteristics bowed legs gives it away. Unfortunately furniture making started to give into mass production cost savings. Nice work on what likely grew up with several families over the years.

@thompson1374

Жыл бұрын

It’s it crazy how things from the past tend to return. I was a product of the ‘70’s. Graduated high school in ‘76! The pants and the handkerchief blouses are coming back. Along with the long straight hair parted in the middle.

Bravo! Loved the real-time narration as it included the expression of your hands. Long video for what would prove to be a tall order. Appreciate how being so attentive to detail brings its own frustrations and, at times, feeling as though the process can be 'one step forward, two steps back'. As a DIYer and crafter, almost always come away thinking 'If I were to do it over....' Look forward to your next video. :)

Great job on that one. Took lots of patience and problem solving. Good save and thanks for sharing the video.❤️

Beautifully done as always. I had an aunt who had a blonde dining room suit that she bought in the late 1950’s that had a piece similar to this one. It held her silverware and serving dishes to her China. Ken from Alabama

Honestly this was really impressive work. And a great video! I know you were eager to be done with it after dealing with it for so long but I enjoyed every minute of it. And the piece looks so good!!!

A lovely restoration, and your real-time narration was enlightening....😊

Your door lines look great. I'd be proud of this one if I was you, for what you had to work with I think you did a great job bringing it back to life without going full on customization

OCD kicks in, finding those little details that are very tasking make you uneasy… thank you for bringing us nothing but exceptional work. 👏🏼 Don’t be to harsh on yourself, love your art!’

Just subscribed, that’s how much I loved your extreme attention to detail and your not giving up. Great work!

I’m glad you decided to restore this piece despite not being too sure or excited about it. I have a small dresser with the same finish that I inherited from my grandma. It’s a cute little dresser but in rough shape and years of nicotine stains on top of the blonde finish. Now I’m feeling a bit more confident that I can save it! Thank you!

I wonder, for those dark spots, would an anti-fungal would have worked better? Our town flooded and we were all told how important it was to get the fungi, left by water, out completely. Love that you took all the time and care for this piece it looks fantastic!

I love that you get all of the badly damaged pieces. That is the videos I like to watch.❤

I had a very similar, although longer, blonde server in my home before my house burned down. It was also badly damaged on top and the person who had it before me had obviously started refinishing it but gave up. I lived with it for 8 years as it was simply because I love the look of blonde furniture and I didn't have the tools, knowledge, or expertise to refinish it. Great job you did on this one - you have a lot of patience.

Fabulous, beautiful work, the perfect finish and look

Thanks for another calming and engaging video. I have learned so much from your videos over the years, and I always appreciate your work. I rescue all sorts of mid century and Danish modern pieces for my home now!

Another awesome video, with a fantastic end result. Thank you, and keep up the good work.

Beautifully done piece. I also agree it works just as well as a credenza-type piece vs a dresser. The simple clear finish really enhanced the piece. We’ll done!

Well I love it. On the end you did not paint the inside white but I guess you had enough. I think turned out stunning. I would definetely have it. Thank you for you dedication and teaching me how to restore wood. I love it.

Wow, Dash! What commitment! I totally admire your tenacity. You have a good eye for color matching that's for sure. I like the whitewash (ish) look it ended up with - very even and clean. Like always, great job. Thanks for sharing! 😄

I can't believe that piece looks so good, especially the top. Great job.

Not only this is so interesting to watch, but your voice is so calming too! Thank you :)

I applaud you on doing an excellent job. What a beautiful piece.

Loved your work on this piece. I too would be proud to own it. God bless.

Really enjoyed the longer video. I’d say you could feel quite proud of your work!

Thanks for showing us the problems you encountered and how you solved them.

Is all good, you saved that piece and it looks amazing!

It looks brand new! Beautifully done!

You have an abundance of patience. I felt it was ready for the burn pit at the start, but you performed another miracle. It’s not perfect but it is presentable and a usable little cabinet.

You did a fantastic job, and have inspired me to tackle a large blonde desk Which I got for $5 at a thrift shop. It's in great condition except for the top Finish. Had no idea I could scrape it, yay! Thank you very much for your clear, Easy to follow tutorial! Best, Carol F.

Phooey, despite all the aggravation, I'm pleased you rescued this sideboard. It deserved your magic touch!

@alanatolstad4824

Жыл бұрын

PS: I liked the active presentation voice along!

As always, fascinating to watch, and what a great piece you finished up with. I think I would have put some matching round oak door knobs to the drawer and doors though, just to break up the plain looking doors. Well done all the same and thanks for sharing your skills. Take care 🙂

Wow! You did a great job. Very patient. Nice save.

Amazing amount of work you put in that roadside find. No doubt better than before.