Teamwork
Teamwork
" Can you get your team onto it?"
We were once asked.
I forget what is was for...
....only know I laughed like a drain.
(What does that even mean?)
The team of two.
Well...
Three... if you count Elsa...
Small business.
Small team.
But... it's extraordinary what you can achieve when you work together as a team isn't it?
When we started with little money and no stock....in an old warehouse down a sidestreet in Arundel...
....we would never have dreamt we would be featured in national and international interiors magazines...
Or we'd be invited to take over the top floor of one of the most prestigious shops in the world...Liberty London. ..for 3 years.
Or..when we extended our upcycling...once just a fraction of our business...
....to include large furniture and old tubs and buckets...
we would see it travel all over the world..
from the US and Canada to Australia and Dubai..
Our upcycling is very much teamwork.
#upcycling
#lovearundel #visitarundel #paintedfurniture
#libertylondon
#fishchestofdrawers
" Can you get your team onto it?"
We were once asked.
I forget what is was for...
....only know I laughed like a drain.
(What does that even mean?)
The team of two.
Well...
Three... if you count Elsa...
Small business.
Small team.
But... it's extraordinary what you can achieve when you work together as a team isn't it?
When we started with little money and no stock....in an old warehouse down a sidestreet in Arundel...
....we would never have dreamt we would be featured in national and international interiors magazines...
Or we'd be invited to take over the top floor of one of the most prestigious shops in the world...Liberty London. ..for 3 years.
Or..when we extended our upcycling...once just a fraction of our business...
....to include large furniture and old tubs and buckets...
we would see it travel all over the world..
from the US and Canada to Australia and Dubai..
Our upcycling is very much teamwork.
Our humble take on 18th century arte povera.
We've often been asked how we do it...well..here's how.
We might have to strip old flaky paint first.
Then..
We paint...normally 3/ 4 coats.
Sometimes gild..
Source 19th and early 20th century images....photocopy...then cut out.
Something like botanical images for a chest of drawers can take a day...that's a lot of Earl Grey and audible books.
Then sticking..that's my favourite job...
Let the imagination fly....
Nass is chief varnisher.
Better at it.
Remembers how many coats he's done.
He gives several coats of aging varnish...
then aging wax....
buffing to a soft sheen....
On completion we both shout
" et voila "
or maybe sing
" Taaaadaaaa "
...mad I know
...but an essential part of the process.
Elsa comes in on the photos..pretty and with that appealing face..
...how can customers resist.
Et voila....teamwork
Here's some of our upcycling...and our Liberty arrival in January 2017.
We've often been asked how we do it...well..here's how.
We might have to strip old flaky paint first.
Then..
We paint...normally 3/ 4 coats.
Sometimes gild..
Source 19th and early 20th century images....photocopy...then cut out.
Something like botanical images for a chest of drawers can take a day...that's a lot of Earl Grey and audible books.
Then sticking..that's my favourite job...
Let the imagination fly....
Nass is chief varnisher.
Better at it.
Remembers how many coats he's done.
He gives several coats of aging varnish...
then aging wax....
buffing to a soft sheen....
On completion we both shout
" et voila "
or maybe sing
" Taaaadaaaa "
...mad I know
...but an essential part of the process.
Elsa comes in on the photos..pretty and with that appealing face..
...how can customers resist.
Et voila....teamwork
Here's some of our upcycling...and our Liberty arrival in January 2017.
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#fishchestofdrawers
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