A babble about furniture, Drexel, Duncan Phyfe and Reproductions.

Below is a little babble about furniture, Drexel, Duncan Phyfe and reproductions.
Antique/Collectible Project➥Right now I am planning a furniture project. I am going to take a small Drexel curio buffet and paint it silver. If you read my blog then you know I sell and collect antiques. Twenty years ago I would have told you this was a bad idea! Well I have been saying things have changed. This will not be easy. It will need cleansed of wax and roughed up with sand paper. I will remove all hardware and use painter's tape on the glass. To save money the hardware will be spray painted. This is not a significant piece of furniture. It is a Duncan Phyfe reproduction. I know you have what you think is the real deal. It is probably from the 1940's. Read this article and discover what real Duncan Phyfe is:
http://www.artemisantiques.com/Article_CollectingDuncanPhyfe.aspx
If it was authentic then it would go through NOTHING or a professional restoration process. In fact painting metallic will make it worth more than it's old high gloss cherry exterior. I have seen some crazy prices online for these curios. Like $600.00. Unless some unlikely young person seriously wants old cherry gloss furniture then good luck. My mother who is 70 thinks it is nice, to give you a clue about a buyers age. As is I would hope to get $100 priced at $150.
I will say very good condition inlaid dining tables still hold some value. Sometimes people want the tables and use updated chairs. Since Duncan Phyfe is a bell ringer name be vigilant reading descriptions because people saying it is an antique may also say Duncan Phyfe "Style."  They know and I know it is not an antique but, your average person thinks Grandma's stuff is considered an antique. I have a hard time getting pass the glassy clear coats put on this furniture. Right now people are buying pieces that look more natural or are painted colors. When I am picking it is for untouched wood furniture. I just want to give it a good wax conditioning to resell it.
However in your area maybe formal high gloss furniture still has buyers. There are still areas in our country that have untouched dining rooms and people who have to entertain formally due to their profession. When I owned a storefront I always sold things like this where I made out and out of state pickers would make out too. There are always buyers for something it just depends on how much they want to spend. 

Goodbye Twitter. Social Media Distancing

Social media unfocused can be a warped vacuum. I feel during this anxiety filled time my Twitter account became my enemy and not my stress release friend. I had over 2500 followers and followed almost the same. I got away from my primary goal. I really just wanted to see hobbies, art, religious interests and pets. The problem is people you follow don't always post very specific topics all the time.
I saw increasing posts with doom and gloom, misinformation or flat out misrepresentations of themselves or fraudulent accounts. I saw immoral, unethical and misinformed posts. Bottom line I felt sucked in to these things and bombarded on a daily basis. I started to feel that anxiety when you work with people that don't share your values and feel stressed even after leaving work.
My husband yesterday pointed out to me a study he probably heard on John Tesh. 
He said something I already know. News and social media in gobs are not good for your mental health. In the past 10 days I have watched Twitter and news way too much. I wasn't living life. I was getting a lot of information and a lot of it not fact checked from around the world. It was too much mental sifting and for what? It wasn't giving me anything better in my life. There are some beautiful people on Twitter with enjoyable accounts. However, for me the bad out weighed the good.
It's time to get back to crafting and listening to some good music. It's time to take a walk or take a ride and take some pictures. There is so much to do even with social distancing. Be mentally well my friends. It's ok to leave trivial things behind and be a better you.