Introducing...

~FWS Artistic Accents~

Finished With Style, LLC has introduced a new dimension to the business with upcycled, handpainted furniture, fine art and architectural accents.

Curbside finds, dumpster diving and tag sales had yielded quite an inventory of unwanted furniture over the years...actually filling a garage!  Sooo, when the opportunity arose to open a retail booth at Black Rock Auction & Design Gallery, we went to work.  Talk about multi-tasking...in addition to regular FWS jobs, we now had multiple furniture and art pieces in various stages of work.

  We cleaned, patched, sanded, created and
recreated for over a month.

In addition, we put the FWS 'stamp' on the booth itself by

resurfacing the brickwork & floor, and hanging burlap on the walls.

Dresser turned rolling work island

Kittredge occasional table

Reactive metal art

Drum table with Italian tray

 French Provincial sideboard

Hammered metal bowl

Paris Grey coffee table

Candelabra

Demi-lune glove table

It has been exciting to transform these pieces, sell and bring in new inventory.

And, even more exciting to imagine where this new venture might take FWS.

*promise...upcoming posts will include before & afters,
as well as a little history on some of the pieces.

Form Follows Function

This was a fun and functional project in Breda's kitchen.  Rather than cluttering up the fridge door with magnets and stuff, why not put a decorative magnetic board right onto the wall?   And why not make it a lovely restaurant-style menu board with gold leaf scrollwork?

That's exactly what we did for Breda.  We selected a 2' x 3' decorative frame stencil to fill her blank wall.  We masked off the area of the frame's scrollwork and painted it out with 3 coats of magnetic paint. 

 

 

The magnetic paint was then given a decorative coat of color with a textured bronze paint.  The stencil was installed on top of the magnetic area and given a basecoat of black paint.

Once the paint was dry, a coat of size was applied. The stencil was then removed, and a variegated gold-leaf was added.

 

And voila! A beautiful magnetic board/wall! Another great idea would be to install this stencil with chalkboard paint, rather than magnetic. Either way, the grocery list becomes a piece of artwork.

 

Susan and Tracey

FWS