From the Studio — age

This week I had the pleasure of cranking out another custom farm table for the über creative, Found Vintage Rentals. The wood was carefully selected from the dwindling stockpile of our pal Jim, the west coast's king of salvaged lumber. He has a 30 year collection of old growth wood from demolished houses. Now I get to turn it into sweet stuff like this...

Originally built in my formative years while working for Pine Creations in LA, I just 'finished' this dresser today!

The age you see on it is both man and element made. It was built and 'antiqued' by my 19 year old hands then given to my mum for a stint. She recently handed it back (spacial issues nothing personal;) but I let it sit outside for a good 6 months! Of course this was a purposeful strategy to get that greyish sun-aged tone that is nearly impossible to mimic.

So I recently...