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Custom Order Process

  **To skip all my typed jibber jabber, check out our custom order page here. Where did the time go? It’s been 2 months since I last posted. Things got busy here folks. Good busy. This post is truly about how the custom order process goes with us, but first, here’s what we’ve been up […]

Before and After: Light Blue Antique Dresser

We pulled that dresser, the one with the red arrow pointing to it, from a barn in Northfield, Minnesota along with a few other dressers (as you can see). It had the usual issues that come with being stored in a barn for that long. The dressers were collected by the seller’s father and left in this […]

Before and After: Tribal Dresser

While this website is fairly new, over the years we’ve documented most of the repair and refurbishing process furniture goes through in our workshop at thewitsblog.com. Actually that blog turned 5 today. Whaaaaaa! (It doesn’t beat my food blog, thedabble.com, which is over 7 years old.) I’ve provided tips, talked about tools, shared resources for collecting pieces, […]

Furniture: Collect, Repair, Refurb, Repeat

Hey there, we’re Em & Wit. We are a couple who collect, repair, salvage, design and refurbish furniture and housewares found at estate sales, craigslist, the curb, barns, garage sales, things from your home and everywhere in between. Vintage, mid-century, retro, mod, modern, deco, antique, primitive, rustic, atomic ranch, and on and on.  We have a […]

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