Antique sewing cabinet

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I tried a new paint color for the old sewing machine cabinet makeover. I thought the color wasn’t going to be black…..but it’s black.

This seemed hopeless at first, but it's so beautiful now!

During my road trip to Green Mountain Spinnery and Basketville I also stopped at several Vermont antique shops. Big Red Barn had some reasonably priced treasures and almost everything was on sale. Buried beneath trinkets, the popped open top drawer of this piece caught my eye. Nothing catches my attention like a secret compartment or a unique piece of furniture like this! It's a sewing cabinet with a swing out top drawer that has built in thread spool storage. It even came with a little bit…

Antique Spool Cabinet Victorian 3 Drawer Full Of Sewing Notions Wood Spool Thread Antique 3 drawer spool cabinet from around 1880. Drawer has original stenciled sign and there’s hand carved pulls on this solid walnut chest. Although the cabinet is very fine, what excited me most about this find was the drawers full of sewing notions. The top drawer is chock full of antique spool thread in rich Victorian colors. The entire middle section of spools and then some, is silks, about 50 count…

I have inherited many pieces of antique furniture but this is the first one I've purchased. It's a Martha Washington sewing cabinet that will be perfect for storing all of my knitting supplies! (I already have another grandmother's wooden sewing caddy for those supplies.) This particular piece was produced for John Wanamaker department stores. I found a copy of their advertisement offering Martha Washington cabinets for the low price of $12 back in 1914. That's about $286 in today's dollars…

I'm going to show you how to easily update old sewing cabinets. This is the one that was in Jamie’s room for several years —it held her t.v. I picked this one up at Tickled Pink while Jamie was in town last month. This one was a yard sale find, the only one...Read More

Antique Victorian Sewing Cabinet and Table

No one can prove she ever had one, though.

I recently received a call from one of my “furniture finders” about this television armoire cabinet. Yep, someone actually threw it away. Here is the story of t…