New Inventory, Some custom pieces, Alameda

Apologies to all who looked for us at Petaluma last Sunday. The early morning rain necessitated a last minute cancellation, not good for the furniture! Fortunately the weather forecast for this Sundays upcoming show at Alameda is for a balmy 70 degrees, a welcome respite from this weeks high temps! Come on out and enjoy, should be a beautiful day. We will be in the usual spot- N-2 and 15 right across from the food vendors.

 Vintage steel industrial pc., beautiful colors

Industrial medical or dental pc., on wheels

Vintage steel locker found at salvage yard with non-functioning door, no problem, made one! Shelves added. On wheels

 Vintage steel industrial pc. from machine shop auction. Polished, shelf added.

Polished steel cart, shelf added

 I find these steel stands occasionally at salvage yards, think was sink base. New top of colorful wood strips.

 Benches, very popular, reclaimed wood.

A couple months back I posted a photo of these pcs., custom bathroom suite, client sent me this photo of  completed job. Very nice!

 Local SF burger house wanted to enclose their outside seating area with planters and barriers in between. This set up designed to be easily disassembled daily. Planters on wheels.

 Large computer desk, custom. Polished steel base fabricated, top is clear heart doug fir, salvaged from 1908 SF victorian.

 Custom redwood outdoor table. Designed by client and myself, they wanted "chunky" appearance. Perimeter of tabletop was milled from columns taken down during their remodel of older Mill Valley home. Old Growth clear heart redwood throughout, nice!

 Antique butcher block was purchased at estate sale. Wish I knew history of this pc., but due to extensive wear was probably in butcher shop.  We restored maple top, built the base to emulate massive top and also the iron elements.

 Custom kitchen pantry cabinet. Built entirely of reclaimed doug fir material. VG flooring as sides, rough sawn framing stock for faceframe, resurfaced clear heart 1x12 paneling for doors and drawer stock. Period hardware. Nice contrasts!

Here are several photos of work we did for Peoples Barbershop, very popular SF barbershop at Polk and Bush.

 Custom pc., inspiration was photo from magazine given to me by client of kitchen sink vanity! The area at middle top where sink was will now have a baby changing pad! Huge amount of storage! Photo below is closeup of antique bin pulls.

 Polished steel dresser, Simmons brand. I still find these now and then, this one was at salvage yard, was faux painted to look like wood, fooled me until I tapped it realized was steel!

Custom desk, fabricated steel base with footrest. Will be on locking castors.

Another industrial machine shop auction find, polished the steel base and added top and shelf of very nice reclaimed pc. of Poplar.

 Found this cute little base at the flea market, made new shelf and top, also the middle shelf is removeable.

There are five of these chairs. Vintage schoolhouse?, they had steel and laminate writing tops bolted on them I removed and then restored the vintage bent ply seats and backs. Came out nice I think.

Found this vintage steel auto garage cabinet at the flea market. Couldn't resist, is perfect size for a bar. For the "man cave?"

A few photos, new product!, Alameda on Sunday 4/6

Since we have been rained out of Alameda last two months there is ALOT of new inventory avail. most has been posted already last couple months postings. We have a monster load, new pickings of small plus new products, crates and boxes.

Custom entry way cabinet

Large Armoire, has full extension drawer slides down below, custom order.

Wall O' crates

Have been looking for some time to find a use for all the door panels we have from deconstructing old doors. Clear heart redwood and fir, 100 yr old straight grain beautiful panels. Ran them thru the planer to remove paint, and left a few to distress for the fronts. Some of these are old drawers rebuilt.

Close up view, drawers, new crate

Couple of 10' community tables made for local restaurant, Old Growth doug fir planks

Some new pieces, Alameda March 2 show this Sunday

Here are a few photos of new pieces. Since Alameda rained out in Feb. we still have many of the cabinets, etc. posted last month. Some great smalls, vintage furniture pieces, we  have a very nice load of fresh inventory for this Sunday. Come on out and enjoy a break in the weather! Booths N2,15, as usual.                                       This table on right was part of a custom order, small dining table using the legs from an old bin table, deconstructed.

Vintage wooden painters ladder as frame for this tall wine cabinet. Interior is part of a very nice old growth redwood wine wall unit that I bought at Urban Ore in Berkeley, I cut it into more manageable sizes, built a cabinet around this section.

 Love collecting old signs, here are a couple coat racks made from vintage steel advertising pieces.

 Very BLUE! Vintage crystal doorknobs as coatrack.

Nice vintage handpainted sign, rough sawn barnwood frame, antique cast iron "tophat" coathooks.

Another wine rack, smaller apt. size? Another cabinet using old wooden painters ladders as frame, reclaimed wood and trim. Wooden interior rack from local salvage yard.

I swore I would never buy another icebox/refridgerator to make cabinets from but.... A fellow dealer had this vintage porcelain refrigerator at our local SF flea market last week. Made me an offer I couldnt refuse:) Very cute, just enough space inside for longer wine bottles, figured it had to be a wine cabinet. I junked the top, made a drawer to hold all the "stuff". -Here it is.

New Inventory showing Tomorrow 2/2 at Alameda Antique fair, come on out! Booth no. N-15

The table here has a base made from old cast iron machine, was a steel cutoff saw I believe. Removed many layers of Navy gray, beautiful results. Top is Doug Fir old VG flooring with original varnish showing.

 Colorful benches from reclaimed wood strips, I dont like to throw away the cutoffs from my cabinet building projects. Top photo 36"ers, bottom photo 48" bench.

 Beachy blue dominates this console, very cool industrial steel legs found at a salvage yard in Petaluma. Some kind of industrial struts originally iI think.

My fd. John gave me this brass plate recently, says "S.F." on it, we dont know what it came off of but its cool:) Console with primary reds and greens, etc.

I bought these green slag glass cabinet doors probably 20 yrs ago at a yard sale in San Jose, ca. Figured it was time to use them:) BTW, the green glass had been painted over, had no idea what was under all that paint until I started working on them. Nice piece.

Bought a very large (8 ft long ?) old pepsi cooler a few years ago from a mothballed 100 yr old hot springs resort in Lake cty, ca. I deconstructed it and had quite a few graphic panels from that. Here is a cabinet using a couple of those panels as doors. Great color. 

Industrial 3 drawer steel bureau, added wheels and doug fir top

Console, frame made from deconstructed old road hazard A frame. The embellishment has "Vogue" on it, no idea what from, but I liked it.

Chimney Cabinet.  

Here is a chimney cabinet made from 1/2 of old victorian era entry door. I removed the panel in the top of door replaced with beveled glass panel. Very cool hardware, the escutcheon is part of an antique pocket door pull, found in an antique mall in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Closeup of hardware

 

"Teeter Rock", very cool vintage childs teeter totter I found at Sacto flea. Deconstructed it and used the graphic steel plates as drawer fronts on these nightstands. Bowling Lane tops, American Cherry trim and sides.

 "National", plate at top of faceframe on this cabinet nickel plated brass, from cash drawer front of antique National brand cash register. Face frame rough sawn doug fir, very nice antique hardware.

Side view

 Metal frame from SF flea market. Very rusty and crusty when I got it, cleaned up very nice. Top and shelf from 100+ yr old framing timbers, resurfaced.

Found the base of this coffee table at Urban Ore, Berkeley. Old childs school desk. Made the top from VG doug fir T&G flooring, salvaged from 100 yr old farmhouse.

The chip carved oak panels I used for these doors purchased from Marin antique dealer. Arts and Crafts period, I believe. Rough sawn doug fir face frame, top is oak, resurfaced vintage dining table. Very nice antique hardware.

Metal frame on this shelf unit found at salvage yard. Shelves are old growth doug fir reclaimed from victorian paneling in formal dining room.

Nifty industrial folding drafting table. Top was resurfaced, sealed.