22/05/2026
This might help explain why I am always covered in paint 🤣
How do you explain what you do when asked?
What actually is Furniture Art?
This is where people start looking slightly confused… like I’ve just told them my job is part-time wizard.
(Although I am not denying wizardry on the side)
“You paint furniture?”“Yes.”“So… you restore antiques?”“No.”“So you make them look new again?”“Also no.”
You see, we are not really upcyclers in the traditional sense. Although we do more than our part to save things from landfill. We are not trying to return furniture back to its original factory finish like some sort of flat-pack resurrection team.
We are furniture artists.
Which basically means we look at a cupboard and think:“You know what this needs? Drama.”
Most people can appreciate a beautiful painting hanging on a wall. A piece that catches your eye, makes you feel something, starts conversations.
Now imagine that painting could also hold your socks.
That’s furniture art.
It’s practical art for the home. Art you can use. Sit on. Store your nonsense in. Spill tea on, love....enjoy and talk about.
A factory finish says:“I was assembled in aisle 7.” and put down that paint sprayer...
Furniture art says:“I have STORIES.”
And honestly… we need to stop apologising for this job like we invented it during a fever dream after sniffing too much furniture wax.
People have painted furniture decoratively for centuries. We’ve just added a bit more , personality, colour and questionable levels of decoupage ownership.
So no… we don't “just paint old furniture.”
WE.... turn cabinets into canvases.
Want to see those old cabinets?
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