Posts by Spruce
Inspiration of the Week: Clean House!
I think when the spring time comes I’m so eager to get outside and play in the sun that I skip spring cleaning. Every year, when the first hint of fall comes, that’s when I become ready for a major clean out. I get the house ready for spending more time indoors as the sun…
Read MoreFurniture Parts and Terminology
Describing furniture parts can be a mind-boggling and frustrating task if you don’t have the right descriptive terms. Before I learned how to upholster, my descriptions sounded like, “You know, that dividing edge-thing by the front of the chair at the bottom with the cord-stuff…” That would be a tack band with welt cord. Here…
Read MoreNugget of the Week: Popping up in the Neighborhood
Not to brag or anything, but our shop has been called a “beacon of light” in the neighborhood. Our little shop is nestled among lots of auto shops, a day labor center, a strip club, and a couple sketchy motels where they like to film horror flix. Don’t get me wrong, we LOVE our neighborhood. …
Read MoreBefore and After: Amanda’s Back Porch!
The “Before and After” feature is stepping out of the studio and taking a trip to Amanda’s house to see the late summer transformation happening under the eaves. Amanda, as long as I have known her, has always had nice plants around the house and her husband, Keith, is a master arborist, so you can…
Read MoreInspiration of the Week: Monster Plants
Besides being inspired by furniture and fabrics, I also really love the outdoors and the idea of growing plants. I say the “idea of growing plants” because, really, I have the black thumb of death instead of a green thumb. My sister Emily was in Houston this past weekend and saw “Lois” the Corpse Flower…
Read MoreNugget of the Week: Happy Birthday Meredith!
Yesterday we celebrated Meredith’s birthday! We had a yummy lunch from Threadgill’s followed by some super scrumptious cupcakes that Amanda made. Here’s what our little birthday luncheon looked like: Another exciting nugget: this week we enjoyed talking to Justin Bieber on the phone! No, not really. They were a series of prank calls, but we…
Read MoreBefore and Afters
With so much going on around the shop (like a new bus in the works, the 4th of July holiday, and general day-to-day busyness) it’s been a little while since we’ve posted some before and after photos of what we’ve been reinventing in the workshop. Here are some before and after shots of some recent…
Read MoreInspiration of the Week: Get out of Town!
I am dying to take a summer trip! My hubby and I have been talking about taking a road trip somewhere. As the summer days fly by, our aspirations have gotten less and less grand. It started as a road trip to the Grand Canyon (I’ve never been) and has become, “hmm….maybe we can squeeze…
Read MoreNugget of the Week: Dinner, Cupcakes, and Pimm’s Cups!
The lovely Keegan hosted a Sprucette dinner at her house Tuesday evening! We pooled our resources and had delicious chicken tacos for dinner, dessert from Hey Cupcake (BTW, the new Sweetberry flavor is total yums!), and Pimm’s Cups throughout the evening. Should you want a refreshing, great-for-billion-degree-heat drink, the Pimm’s Cup could be for you!…
Read MoreBefore and Afters: Recent and from the Vault
Quite possibly, the most satisfying aspect of our job is the transformation we see happen to each different piece of furniture every week. Sometimes we may lose sight of the scope of the transformation as we pass it through our assembly line. First the piece is stripped down to the frame by one person, then…
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