FURNITURE PORTFOLIO

Recently, I had the pleasure of working on this commission. My client had an mirror that she wanted spruced up based on the colour palette of Jackson Pollock’s “Summertime 9A” painting of which she had a print hanging in her living room. To see the before and after images, just follow this link.

I found this old Ivar unit in my basement and decided I’d breathe a little life into it. I bought it back in the day when I didn’t have any clue about wood treatment or wood finishing and so, after assembling it, I never once gave the IKEA pine any nourishment. It just stood there. Bare, dry pine. Oh dear, poor old flatpack. But my Ivar unit forgave me and is now so proud of its unique, one-in-a-kind look.

This is a remodel of what used to be simply a book/display shelf. I added four doors and boxed in those four units, then gave the doors a unique etching.

My client Anna had this built-in pine wardrobe in her bedroom, which was too old-fashioned looking to keep as-is, but too useful to get rid of. We discussed replacing the four doors with more modern ones (maybe a different wood like ash, cherry or walnut) or simply to give the existing doors a lick of paint. Being a cheery soul, she decided to go with bold colours and a chequered look, which she had liked about my ‘100waters’ coat rack design. Now she wakes up to happy pulses of colour every morning…