Unveiling The Mystery Of The Edwardian Purdonium: A Furniture Restoration Adventure!
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- In this video I will be restoring an Edwardian Purdonium - a piece of furniture that I'd never heard of a week ago! A purdonium is a wooden box with a metal box inside, the idea being that the Edwardian upper and middle classes could get their servants to bring the coal into the house but without them having to see it!
Wow cool piece Tim! That quarter sawn oak is beautiful. Also great video, I enjoyed watching! - Jamie
@FurnitureFlippa Thanks Jamie, I'd never heard of a purdonium until I looked for other examples on the internet!
As you now know, I've started doing a voiceover so we'll see how things go - It seems to be going well so far!
@@RhooseRestorations I think the voiceovers are great. You must soon be at the monetization numbers? Great work!
@@FurnitureFlippa Yes, the initial requirements have been met and yesterday I signed up with AdSense so surely the RUclips millions will follow!!! 😇🤥
@@RhooseRestorations Hi Jamie and Tim, Voice overs are my preference when choosing what to watch. That way I can be doing something else whilst I watch without having to rewind to find what was written if I happen to glance away at the wrong moment. Personally I want to know what you are doing, why you are doing it and what are you using to do it? Listening to answers and commentary around that is better than listening to machines and trying to read. Adding a suggestion, just before the reveal, throw back to a couple of the before shots. An overall photo and one or two of the most noticeable defects. It reminds people what you started with before you refinished, thus making the refinished work pop.
@@laineymcd4074 Will do!
I had never heard of such a thing, but what a little beauty. And another view of your lovely garden. Thanks.
I'd not heard of one before this week either!!
What a little gem. Thank you for sharing your meticulous restoration
My pleasure!
Handsome and useful piece now. I could also see using it as a magazine cabinet by a sofa or comfortable chair.
Great idea!
@@RhooseRestorations Let your wife get used to it being used to store lumps of wood and then make dividers for the drawer so you can store whisky bottles in it!
@@fatroberto3012 Do I hear the voice of experience there? 😇😇😇
Sixty years ago, as a child, I lived in a wooden house made of larch logs, about 75 m2. This is the border of the Southern Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia. This house is still intact, but now it is heated with gas, but in my childhood it was heated with coal, which was used to heat a huge Russian-style stove. If in winter the temperature was below -40C, two large iron buckets of coal were consumed per day. A truckload of coal was needed for the whole year and it was stored in a special coal shed. This box of coal would probably not be enough for a day. But in your warm country, coal was probably consumed much more slowly.
I think your Edwardian period is modern? Interesting artifact and excellent restoration.
1890s, I think
Thank you for your story, it makes me cold just thinking about it!!
I refinished a very old black walnut bonnet top pre civil war chest of drawers that was in many pieces when I found it in my grandparents chicken coop. It had 4 decades of dirt on it to include chicken poop and pigeon poop. This specific chest of drawers has been in my family since before the civil war and it was made entirely of 3/4 inch black walnut with all hand cut dovetails and raised panel backing and rounded feet. It is a real survivor of my family pioneering praire farming days when they lived in a very small log cabin with one bedroom loft. If only old furniture could talk.
Indeed, there's many a tale to be told!
Great restoration , nice piece of furniture to store wood in.
Thank you, just need to make sure I don't set it on fire!!
I love the way you navigate us through your process and restoration. I like the difference tone on the draped wood detail. Absolutely Gorgeous Restoration!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
Wow!! What cool piece of furniture!! Did you even know that you would find that wood grain under all that dirt? The love you used on this really shows!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for watching! Dark varnish was often used to cover up ugly wood, in this case it was covering up some beautiful grain.
They probably did it to hide the grain, so that it would look like more fashionable mahogany. In those days oak was regarded the way pine is now. The well off preferred expensive imported eastern hard woods.
@@fatroberto3012 You may well be right!!
The wood grain you revealed is gorgeous.
Thank you - it's amazing what gets hidden under dark varnish!
My Grandfather (as well as several of his sons) were also Coal Miners - In Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. Grandad eventually succumbed to Black Lung.... in 1936. His sons mostly joined the Military in WW2, and stayed out of the mines afterwards.
Very interesting and cool piece of Furniture!
Both my wife and I had grandfathers in the coal mines but the mines are now a thing of the past in the UK.
Beautiful restoration. Good idea to put wood in it.
Thank you very much!
I would take it for potatos and onions.
The front detail is outstanding, no pun intended 😊
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That was a good idea to use the purdonium to hold firewood! It turned out nice!
Yes, it's turned out very useful 😊
Like everyone else, I had never heard of a purdonium until today.
The most attractive coal scuttle in South Wales😂
Surely a man with so many books would know of such things!😜
@@RhooseRestorations
Clearly I need more!
The ray-flecking in the medullary rays of that quarter-sawn oak is spectacular, All of the grain detail is superb.
I had never even heard of a Purdonium, and now you have shown me an impressive example. And £5.00!
Excellent work, and attention to detail.
It certainly was, thanks 👍
Beautiful wood grain! I wonder if it was a color like that originally but just darkened from being beside a coal fire for so many years.
It may have done, but it would have been a shame to cover it up again!
My mother had bins like this built into a cabinet with a top for sorting laundry. Very cool piece.
Sounds great!
What a lovely job and useful addition to your fireplace area. Well done.
Thank you very much!
Restored one of these last year for my husband and now I know what it’s called! Beautiful work
Thank you! 😊
Nice piece of furniture. Nice job restoring it. I understand it's purpose. Must have been a Godsend before there was central heat. Every room having a fireplace and cooking with coal. Nice period piece. 👍
You are right!
My grandmother had a very similarly made cabinet that she used to store potatoes in her kitchen.
It wasn't made of nice wood, but it had the same pull out drawer and interior metal bin.
I wouldn't be surprised if it had been used for coal once, originally, and she just found another use for it when their house got gas.
I always thought it was really cool.
This little cabinet was absolutely gorgeous, just beautiful oak and the lovely scrolled carving.
What a treasure, and I think you're putting it to good use.
Thank you, as you said, the oak is beautiful.
Your narration is lovely, pure poetry @ 11:03, for example!
Thank you for your kind comments!
Great restoration. In keeping with the folded linen theme I'd of probably used it as storage for soiled laundry. Narragansett Bay
Great idea!
Love the grain in that oak, gorgeoud.
Thanks, it was hidden under that dark varnish for decades - I was qlad to uncover it!
Never heard of it but it looks great!!
Neither had I a fortnight ago!
Loved the Video. Your Pace is Perfect and Your History is Fun! What a Sweet Beautiful Piece! The Grain is Amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful work ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
What a clever design. The bucket could be filled in the cellar and then be popped into the cabinet, so no pouring of the coal to make dust rise in the house. Coal dust made so much work for our grandmas! Great job, interesting and will be handy for many things.❤ i will remember your trick with the water color masking fluid, thanks for that.
Thanks, I made the water colour thing up as I went along! Just needed to test it before I messed up 😁
What an interesting box.
It's strange what you come across now and again!
Looks great! and I learned something today!
I'd never heard of a purdonium last week - you learn something every day!
Well done!
Thank you!
Beautiful work, ❤
Thank you
My grandparents had one in the sitting room so I actually knew what this was. When their house was actually fitted with central heating in the late 1970’s they just kept it as an interesting objet d’histoire.
I knew what it was for, but never imagined that it would have such an exotic name!!
Nice job. I like your projects.
Glad you like them!
That linenfold! Gorgeous gorgeous!
It really is!
Wonderful job ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
You can get latex masking fluid for Airfix type kits as well, the main difference to the watercolour version seems to be it’s often purple so you can see where you’ve painted it on. It works with acrylic, enamel and lacquer paints, so would also work with your finishes should anyone have trouble getting the watercolour version.
Thanks for the information 😃
what ever your previous experience with wood staining was, I can match it…with food colouring. Took me a fortnight to get it to fade even with so much washing that my skin was suffering. But I accidentally came across a fix (though wearing gloves is the best) After a couple of good washes, cover the areas of the stain on the skin with a cheap water based PVA glue. Let it dry and the rub hands together to start lifting the glue. As the glue peels off it takes the deep stain with it. A warm soapy wash to remove the last of the glue and job done.
Thanks for the tip! There is nothing worse than finding that you had a hole in your glove and your fingers are stained too - like smokers back in the day before filter tips!!
Cover when stripping with clear wrap, it works faster
Thanks
Looks great! great video!
Thanks for watching
Beautiful restoration of a nice piece of fire side furniture. Great video.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful
Thanks
Now I know what a purdonium is!
You and me both!!
TIL a purdonium is a fancy way to spell "coal scuttle"
It's a coal scuttle for the working classes, but a purdonium if you have aspirations 😀
You would think that the seller would have cleaned it out before selling it. 😢😢 Nice job restoring it.😊😊
I think so too!
Boxes like that were also used for storing flour.
Thanks for letting me know
They should start making those again for Narrowboaters.
Great idea!!
Nice piece and a skillful job bringing it back to life. Thank you for the video. You are in Wales? Someday I'll make it there. My grampa told me we came from Wales in the very early 1600's. Something to do with being at odds with the church, Greetings from Seattle Wa USA. Thanks again
Yes I'm in Rhoose, the southernmost point in mainland Wales!
A handy invention to keep the mess of coal in the cellars where it belongs. Filling scuttles was a dirty job.
Judging by the contents of my car, plenty of coal dust made it to the fireplace!!
Its for storing coal beside the fireplace.
That's lovely!
Can you give a list of the products you used. Thanks.
I'll pop them in description later
would make a unique trash binfor ur office
I guess it would!
It's a pretty and useful piece Art Deco era?
I'd have said Edwardian rather than Art Deco but as the two eras were so close who knows? 😀
I can’t help but think it would be great for storing socks…or potatoes
As my daughter would say - "Whatever floats your boat"!
I thought it was a place men pissed in when dining or gambling and not wanting to leave the room. Although they are usually in a grand sideboard!
I think that this specimen belonged in a less 'elevated' home that one with a grand sideboard, besides, it would make the coal very difficult to light!
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Thanks
I see you're using steel wool together with the paint stripper. I once did this with a German stripper gel. The outcome was horrible as the abrasion particles of the wool reacted chemically with the stripper and left loads of unremovable black dots on the ash veneer. My question is how you avoid that? Maybe your stripper is of different recipe in the UK? Which one? Thanks
@kerstin4516 I don't know what was the problem on ash. Yes, on oak it can be a real problem if fragments of steel wool get embedded into the pores and it gets damp, the steel rusts and you are in trouble.
What is the brand name of the water color masking you used. Thanks. New subscriber.
Thanks for the question. It's Windsor & Newton Watercolour Medium - Art Masking Fluid
I thought it was for potatoes!
.........so long as you don't mind a bit of coal dust with them!!
Nice job but why didn’t you do the bottom, the back and the inside??
Thanks, if you look at most vintage furniture this will be the case, even in the good old days if you couldn't see it it wasn't done.
Great result, what shade of toner did you use please.
Thanks for watching.
It was Mohawk - Ultra Classic Toner - Dark Walnut M100-7020
@@RhooseRestorations Cheers