Q: Is a Fancy Leg tabletop water resistant?
A: I am very careful to give my tabletops 4 - 5 coats of Polycrylic, so they are water resistant. I would still use coasters and place mats to protect the finish. In my house, there have been occasions where a sweating glass with ice has been left on a table overnight. A foggy ring may appears for several days, but will disappear.
Q: I see a piece on the Fancy leg website that I like, but it’s the wrong color palette.
Can I order it in a different color?
A: It may be hard to get the identical piece, since each one is unique. I will keep on the look out during my outings for something similar. We can correspond by email with pictures of what I’ve found. Once we find an acceptable substitution, I can paint the piece whatever colors you like.
Q: I have an old piece inherited from a relative. It has sentimental value, but doesn’t fit in with my decor. Can you paint it for me?
A: Yes, as long as it is in the Twin Cities area.
Together we can come up with a color palette and theme for the piece.
Q: Do you take fine antiques and degrade them by painting them?
A: No, I am careful to pick pieces that have past their life as a fine antique.
Many of the pieces have already been spray painted white or black.
Q: How long have you been painting furniture?
A: I started painting furniture soon after I got married in the late 1980’s. We have moved many times with my husband’s career, so it became practical, with each new house, for our furniture to get repurposed and repainted.
One of my first pieces and still a favorite is a china cabinet. I rescued it from my parent’s basement when my husband and I bought our first house. At that time it was painted black. It had been handed down to mom when she got married in the early sixties from her sister. At that time, it was a trendy avocado green. My aunt had been handed down the cabinet a decade earlier from her mother-in-law who had bought it in the 1930s.
This piece has had many reincarnations in my travels. In my first house it was a china cabinet, stacked with my Kentucky Bybee Pottery. In my second house, a townhouse outside Chicago, it was still in the dining room, but had been converted to an art project armoire for my two little girls. In another couple of houses it was moved up to one of my daughter’s bedroom as a clothes armoire. Now it is in my sewing area and stores sewing supplies.