Painted Floors?!?

An economical and interesting alternative to refinishing damaged hardwood floors or replacing dated flooring, painting your floor is not for the feint of heart.  Or the damaged of knee.  But the results speak for themselves.  What a fabulous way to add color and pattern to your space!   Obviously, some patterns will be easier to [...]

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How to: Heavy Metal

Metal headboards are back with a vengeance.  And I say that because they’ve gone beyond sweet and innocent and become a real fashion statement adaptable to a huge number of design styles.  Sometimes those more edgy styles are more expensive, however.  So what remains is how to turn a “typical” metal headboard into your metal [...]

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New Life for Old Wicker

It may come as a surprise to some of our reader’s, but Schneiderman’s is a furniture store that believes in recycling furniture.  Giving older pieces new life is a fantastic way to update a space and keep your home fresh and exciting.  Not to mention, also saving you money in the short term so you [...]

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Reclaim your Furniture!

Today’s Fundamentals is all about how to achieve a recycled, reclaimed look, whether or not you’re a DiY god/dess.  State Street Sofa Consider this (gorgeous!) sofa from Flexsteel.  (Yes, this is how we show it at our Schneiderman’s Furniture locations in Minnesota.)  The fabric on this sofa is not hand woven from someone’s ancestors’ denim.  But [...]

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What’s New Used to be Old

Recycling is nothing new.  Neither is using reclaimed furniture pieces in our homes.  After all, most of us have our grandmother’s sewing machine cabinet or a dining chair from our mother’s bridal set.  And the more adventurous of us have stripped, painted, stained, repurposed and reused old pieces (an old dresser makes fabulous a fabulous [...]

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