Groovy 1970's Furniture Gets A Refinish | Vintage Furniture Restoration & Repair
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2023
- In this video I refinish a 1970's cabinet. This is a thrift store find and was made by Lane furniture company.
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The transformation just from the gel stain is mind boggling. It looks so rich. The fill sticks are probably mostly colored wax. They look like the wax sticks that were used with metal stamps to seal documents and letters.
You’ve got to love thrift stores! I found my wedding dress in one 45 years ago for TEN BUCKS. My grandmother dropped the phone when I told her. I also found a working lava lamp in the same store about a decade later for five dollars.
okay, so about 5 mins in, i had a sudden flashback and remember my mom and dad had 2 of these when i was little.
Blotchy, schlochy… no one will really notice except you and us…. And we aren’t talkin’. I always learn something. Sometimes I am pleased and surprised when I guess what you are doing next.
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It does look much better. My wife and I had one similar to that one when got married in 1976. Always enjoy your videos!
I remember those, they called them commodes in the 1970s. We had a matching pair for the living room. I knew a commode to be a toilet so I thought it was weird to call an end table a commode. I was born in 1959 so maybe it's just me. How some ever, your work is fabulous!!! That is a beautiful piece of furniture!
I admire your Super-gluing risk tolerance (at least for the chip repair). You must have pads of dried glue on your fingers at all times, or be a huge investor in acetone.
Really really light grit sand paper or a nail file will take that off without chemicals
I've delt with a lot of super glue fixing various things, it used to really freak me out how it stuck to my skin but I got used to it and the stuff comes off after a few washes (and picking lol) anyways
@@emilymulcahy Lava soap or a pumice stone will also do wonders to remove super glue from skin.
@@Objet_Dart pumice stone takes more time than a nail file, I both do my own nails and I'm a crafter so I have lots of experience, I have yet to find any pumice soaps that work well and the best I've found is a nail file, it won't hurt if there's an open cut (like if you pulled your fingers apart when they were previously glued and the skin broke) like acetone, it doesn't take lots of time or multiple washes like pumice soaps and it files it off instead of pulling it off like a pumice stone, I find those tend to rip away chunks and further damage skin
@@telegenicz same but I can't stand having it on there, it's a texture thing for me, a nail file leaves everything on damaged and my skin smoother immediately
I LOVE that you leave the sounds of everything from the scrapping to the sanding and all of it. Great job on this piece as always
Weird piece but I think I like it. Good place to stash your "party supplies" back in the day.
I had one similar. And yes, record albums standing up with supplies stashed in the corners.
You are causing your self extra stress you don't need sir, it is a "Beautiful" piece of furniture, due to your craft, and your workmanship. Bravo Sir!💖
Time well spent. I think it looks lovely. Thanks for sharing.
My folks bought a pair new in 70-something. They worked really well in both the living room and family room, and were quite large inside for box games, magazines, etc.
I have one of these! Plus a coffee table and end table. We call it "the octagonal" despite being 6-sided. I refinished them just 2 years ago. (And found that the kids had written insults to each other on the underside of the coffee table.) Came out great. Owned them since 1978, The top is definitely the part that gets damaged. more so than the others.
I think the Lane “commode” looks really good. In the 70’s that was the term we used in the furniture biz. Those types of pieces were all the rage. It was fun to see one restored. Carol from California
They were often used as tables for occasional chairs or recliners. :)
I thought the ‘commode’ name meant it was round or rounded, but on looking it’s just storage? I remember a lot of folks stacking magazines and records in them, but it would make a good little liqueur cabinet if you don’t have kids.😊
And just as I said that, Mr Dashner said ‘as long as you don’t spill an alcoholic drink on it.’😂
My Minnesota in-laws called a portable toilet a commode, in France my French family call a sideboard cupboard a commode.
Thanks for posting, I look forward to all your videos.
Great job on this little 70s table. I like it. Ive noticed that these 70s end tables are getting a second look nowadays among vintage buyers, especially if found in pairs.Thank you for posting your work skills.
70’s furniture does seem to be making a comeback in the area I live in.
70’s furniture is 🔥 right now!
Better have a strong back for the bigger pieces😂, it’s as heavy as it looks.
chunky, yet funky!
This Dashnerd says well done !. You do nice work on the color corrections. It can be hard to bring colors back in line after fading and damage has occured.
Dashnerd!!!😂
So Lane Furniture a-ha. my wife only wanted Lane in 1960 for her hope chest-we still have it and had to only re-glue the small legs that it has. We did have to get rid of all our furniture when i screwed up in business (that is another story) so now we only have it and the side table. refinishing the side table and it exposed at the corners a light colored wood i refinished with tung oil and the contrast is beautiful. so all of our bedroom furn is gone. but we are still here watching your restorations. Keep up the good work.
It looks great! I remember hating this chunky style of furniture in the 80's and 90's, but now I find myself mooning over these restored post-modern pieces when I see them. You did a fine job on this one!
Love it!!!! As always. Lol. If I wasn’t on the other side of the Atlantic I would have been begging to buy it. Great job as always. 😊❤
Thank you!
Nicely done! Again!
It looks very nice after your intervention. I love this tendency to repurpose old pieces. Great work as always. Thank U!!
Transformed. And, another great voice over.
Another opportunity to spend some time watching you upgrade & renew a beaten up beauty. Thanks for sharing your time with us. ❤
Hey DD
It definitely looks better.
Take care
Thank you.
You made it beautiful again!
A nice restoration there.
That's cute piece I have a octagon shape wooden piece like this but the door open up like cabinet doors.
What an unusual design of table, but it's nice. Obviously you did a great job on it and revived it for another lease of life. Thanks for sharing - always a pleasure to watch. Take care 🙂
These were really common in the seventies-the shape is versatile, it can sit out in the middle of the room or next to the wall-no unfinished side. They were good for stacking records in also.
Nicely done!!
Honestly, i think the top looks fine. It's got a lovely grain and doesn't seem blotchy at all. Im not a gan of the 70's but that's a nice little table. Thanks for sharing 😊
thank you for being the reason why i began restoration so long ago 🫡
It looks as good as new. I like how you refinish and restore. Very nice.
Good stuff 👌
It’s a perfect single piece for a reading nook.
It looks much better and will have a new lease on life.
It's so strange seeing you now after all these years of just hearing your voice!
Your are a genius man. i learnt alot of things from you .i am new youtuber and i watch you this is very helpful for me
Thanks buddy
We had a set of those when I was a kid, except the doors had fancy carving inlays (probably just molded plastic).
This is great.
So glad for the upload
Looks almost like new. Love the result. Glad you raised the door a little though. It was bugging me. Couldn’t unsee it.
Excellent results as usual. Piece to be enjoyed another 50 years💜💜💜
Thank you.
I know I have a vivid imagination, but I was expecting it to walk away. It sorta reminds me of a very simplified R2D2😆
Hi from Kuwait . For more than two years I have been following you, I have benefited from a lot of your experiences. Enjoy watching your videos, thank you very much🌹🌹🌹
You're being a perfectionist lol. It looks great 😊
Beautiful piece!
As a designer, I find most 70's contemporary furniture to be scale appropriate and not "chunky". Chunky really didn't show up until the 80's and then went truly overboard in the 90's. The chunky furniture of the late 60's and 70's wasn't contemporary like this piece, but part of what came to be referred to as "Mediterranean", with mostly very dark stains.
By the 70s people were accumulating more "stuff" that required storage that the sparseness of MCM simply didn't provide. End tables became cabinets. More bulk but not necessarily "chunky".
I keep seeing these little hex cabinets but only find 1 at a time. I also try to keep an eye out for Lane furniture, but I didn't know they made these. It's super cute. I'm sure it will be loved again in its new life!
My Dad does that hinge trick 👏
It's interesting that they did that door as one large angled piece instead of just having two doors opening from either side and meeting in the middle.
More dardeare=more money
Lane is a good company. Nice find. And, great job, as always.
Very nice sir good job❤
Whenever I see any fashion from the 70’s, whether it’s clothes or decor, I’m so glad I spent the 70’s in the Navy. 😊 as usual, nice work, although I have to say it sounded like your heart wasn’t really in this one.
Mr.Dasher you are so nice and easy to follow and listen to. Hope you are enjoying your new home and location. 👍🏼❤️
My parents had a very similar hexagonal stereo cabinet in the 70s but it had darker wood and an inlaid slate top. It was very ugly! This one here is a lot nicer.
Nice piece from my favourite decade , you saved another one 😊
Thanks for watching.
Love your videos, great job!
Thank you!
It looks much better.
In the final shots I see what the problem is with the door. The horizontal piece with the magnet is not flush with the corresponding pieces around the top. So it's not the door but that piece that goes across. It would probably be a big hassle to try and true it.
I love your channel. I have always loved your channel because you do such a great job. I also love that I now get to put a face to your very nice voice. But I feel like you phoned it in on this one. I will continue to watch though as I have in the past. 😊
good job
Great job!!
Thank you!
It looks very nice!! Another beautiful piece!!❤
Great job thanks for you
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I don't think I've ever seen a cabinet quite like that, so it's interesting to see. I always enjoy how you tell us if you made a mistake or, as in this case with the veneer, forgot something; and also that you are happy to get to a point of something being "good enough". In this case, the door was fine - you could have spent ages making adjustments to it, and it wouldn't have really been much better than it was after what you did. The cabinet came out really well, and I'm sure it will look good in a room.
My daughter-in-law's grandmother had something next to her recliner. I guess she stored various items like kleenex or her purse or whatever in there.
You did a great job! A definite improvement! ...another superb refinishing. ❤ Love the color!
For the latch, why not shim under the piece that on top of the door? Looks good tho.
It looks great 😃
I think it looks good all over! And you were right not to mess any more with the door-unless you basically wanted to remake the door and some of the edges around it 😊. Hope it finds a good home!❤✌️
Lovely
Great video.
Hey Dash....your work always looks awesome!!!
Beautiful work on that piece! Wonderful job as usual!
Nice work. I love those Lane pieces. Classic designs and hefty looking furniture. Thanks for sharing!
Has a sort of Frank Lloyd Wright aesthetic to it. Great job.
Would love to have this!
Perfection is the enemy of good. It looks lovely, much better than when you started. I think you're probably more critical of your work than is your audience. Enjoyable video, as always. Kia kaha, from Aotearoa.
That came out as good as any 1970's chonky piece of furniture ever did! good work.
Great work! Inspiring. I’m working on my new video where I’m Refinishing a 60s mid-century table 👌🏻
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You're the best
Great job as always. I love the lines of mid century modern furniture and walnut is my favorite wood. So your videos don’t disappoint and are a treat!! Thanks.
My parents bought a similar shaped table in the 60s (also by Lane). They used it until they both passed away in 2014. I love mid century, but it was just too bulky for my house. They had a Lane bedroom set from the same era, and I didn’t keep that, either. The drawers were too shallow for my needs, and the headboard was too small. I only kept the mirror, as it was separate.
My parents had one too.
I'm wondering...what will happen if someone were to spill an alcoholic drink on the finish?---I love those cameo shots!
Alcohol is the solvent for shellac so it would dissolve the finish.
You’re a straight genius fam! Question: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever found in a piece of old furniture? Maybe a human finger?
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Spoken like a person who donated a nightstand to a thrift store with a human finger hidden in it.
@@Vikingwerk oh hell nah fam! I’m too poor to donate anything! I’m broke asf!
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I would prefer to rework on the hinges and narrow the gap on door. at the end finish was good, nice work
We had 3 similar pieces growing up and all 3 had wonky doors. It’s so heavy of a door that over time it just sags like an old fence gate lol.
Nice job David. Super Glue and I do not get along at all. Everything sticks to everything except what I'm trying to glue!
I have something similar. It is made of particle board and pretty sure a wood paper finish on the top. It is all bubbled and horrible looking. I just threw a piece of dark glass over it. Lol. I've thought about sanding it down, but not now. I was also go to take the door off and put a blanket in there and see if my dog would go in there or put there toys in there. Yours turned out nice. 😊
It's a cabinet!
Yeeesssssss!!!!!
I am struck ny the garage door and the uneven cement pads that are a mirror image of mine, here on the east side of Mississippi river.😊
👏👏👏👏 good job!
This video is timed perfectly for me. I just picked up the exact same table last week. Mine is similar to yours in that the legs are in better shape than the sides and top. Thanks so much for the tip to just leave the legs. What brand and color of stain did you use?
Bet you'd love one of those laser finish removers that you see on YT. Would be nice if they came into a consumer price range. Would make refinishing much more efficient.
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How do you decide when to dry scrape the finish off bs using a chemical stripper? I use Citristrip most of the time for fear of scraping through the veneer. Always enjoy the videos with their relaxed midwestern vibe. From another midwesterner, Jon.
In your early videos you never showed your face. You're so handsome and natural on camera. Good call to discuss the pieces on camera. It gives human relatable connection and a better feel to the story of each piece, which always turns out fabulous. I learn a lot from you, thank you.
It looks good! You are too critical of your work.😊
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You do really beautiful work, I really like your technique and attention to detals. I just wish you did revconversions, too... in order to steal more of your practice. Because sometimes is such a difficult thing to reconvers a piece of furnuture that you never had contact before. I have this table that has almost a teflon finifh, I tried sand it down , use plastic primer and water base colors and finish (i find that those are magic, they stay on everything without primer but on this tabke it didn't. DO you have any ideas how to do something to this table. It;s kinda driving crazy a bit,, and i had such a beautuful design for, it,,..inspirated somehow by alice in wonderland