Furniture Week(s) Furniture Redo’s – Diving Meet

Happy Monday everyone! Furniture week was a lot of fun last week and we’ve decided to trickle a little bit more of it into this week. We recently spotted some fabulous furniture redo’s from Diving Meet. "Diving Meet is a great blog about reworking salvaged items into functional and appealing design. Dive in
to tell about your latest tossed and found makeover."

Diana Durkes is the artist behind this creative chest redo. It also comes with a fabulous story. You never know what you’ll find when redoing a piece of furniture.

The farm chest was painted a kitchen green when I found it in the
basement of a house I once lived in. When I started to sand it,
discovered the chest was made from old orange crates, circa 1940.  I
repainted white and cloudy blue , then hand painted the farm scene in
my best Grandma Moses style with artist acrylics. Last, a spray of matt
acrylic sealer. Cheery, and this chest has served us well from baby
clothes dresser to front hall mail and keys holder.

Diana also creates fabulous handmade items in her Etsy shop TableforEight. You can find these gorgeous silk pillows there, which also happen to be a "redo" of sorts.

The pillow fabric was a lucky find—-a friend rescued a box of fabric
samples from her mother-in-law’s attic and passed it on to me.  Schumacher silk historical repro
patterns circa 1953.  I made the samples into 20 x 16 pillows with the
damask on one side and this amazing acid gold medallion patterns on the
other. I like to use kapok stuffing–100% cotton, with some weight, and
it’s making a comeback I see (Dwell, June edition!)

Thanks Diana for sharing your lovely redo’s and pillows with us!