A customer had some old cabinets from the 1950s that were originally white. He was installing a retro 1950s kitchen, and came to us for help. We repainted the cabinets a soft yellow color, and polished them up till they glistened! Click on each image to enlarge.
At the end of May, we blogged about our secret antique bike restoration project for my Uncle Billy. Back when he was 11 years old, Uncle Billy bought a 1971 Columbia with money he had made from blueberry picking up in Maine. It has been stored in a back corner of my grandfather's barn all these years, all but forgotten. During my last visit, I brought the bike home with me so I could restore it and surprise my uncle. We finished the restoration this spring, and I just brought the bike back up to Maine to give it back [...]
When I (Dennis) was a young boy, I used to go up to Liberty, Maine and spend summers with my grandparents. I loved to roam around their farm and go through the big, red barn doors to explore inside. Stuffed behind a couple of old tractors in the corner of the barn, I used to see my Uncle Billy's old bike, a 1971 Columbia (see below for how it looked). He had bought it himself with his blueberry money and ridden it as a kid. My grandmother has a photo of Billy posing at age 11 on his bike. (I [...]
