Yes. People are going nuts that you painted a Haywood Wakefield piece. Though it looks nice, maybe you could have used that technique on a more mundane piece.
Heywood Wakefield furniture is always made from solid northern yellow birch, they never use veneer or particleboard. I would never paint this furniture, but it does look nice.
Painting a Heywood Wakefield dresser.... It will be tough for anyone to completely remove that color later. All for less than $200 profit. 😢 You could have sold it as is for $1000 or more!
I am horrified at this woman's arrogance, ignorance, and disrespect for historical pieces of furniture. Apparently, she did not grow up watching Antique Roadshow. Imagine the "real" skill required to restore this piece to its original beauty. She would have tons in profit. Please save your paint jobs for the junk pieces. Those transformations are fabulous.
While it looks lovely in blue, restoring it would have brought 3 times what you sold it for. That said, most of these collectible dressers are not sold through Facebook so it may have sat a while.
Oh, plz don't paint! Too late. It sounds like you've pulled put primer. It's likely that your customers are younger, not sure they care if pieces are wood or not. Genuine hardwood furniture, especially fine quality is becoming more difficult to buy.
Lmao these comments. I’m 60. If you like wood furniture but it if you don’t like painted furniture don’t buy it. I do not like unpainted furniture. It’s my preference. But to say you won’t watch her again because she painted a piece is stupid 😂😂. That piece of furniture was ugly I don’t care what brand name it is
I think the finished piece is lovely. It saddens me that people come onto your channel & are so mean. You deserve better than that. If people dont like it, they should just move on to the next video. Plus, there IS such a thing as constructive criticism & so many posts just chose to be unkind & rude. You did great & keep doing your thing the way YOU choose to. Oh and P.S. covid is still out there - I have it now - hope you & your guy are both well.
Just because it’s a classic piece of furniture doesn’t mean it can’t be tastefully modernised. Love the colour and the quality of the piece remains. I do think you underpriced it, it’s beautiful and I think you could have sold it for nearer $800-900. The buyer got a great bargain! 🙂
$250 profit for how many hours of work? When you could’ve made closer to $800+ profit is sad. Considering part of your channel is showing people how to have successful side hustles/businesses flipping furniture, this project didn’t hit the spot for me. I think part of being successful is knowing which pieces to paint, and which to restore. This piece would’ve been a perfect example to teach others that.
I love the deep blue!!!! Sure you could have stained it but its so lovely the way you've done it!!! I hate the yellow color ! Its the design that is beautiful not the original stain!
I’m really upset that you painted a Heywood Wakefield piece. It one thing to paint something that has plastic laminate on it, but solid wood?!? If you have something like this again perhaps you could do a little research to see how much the piece is worth first. This would have been an easy restoration.
This was a flip, which is what Lauren does. She doesn't do a restoration. She sells on marketplaces, which require lower pricing. A restorer would have stayed true to the original and sold at a much higher price.
I absolutely love this!!!! I understand that people are very protective of nice furniture and love having it restored but this really brought it into the current times and will look amazing in a boys/baby room!!!
The look of it came out sharp but maybe on a another piece. This is just one piece I couldn't have painted. Probably devalued it too. You could have gotten more than a $250 profit had you stained it and kept the wood look. I love your pieces though and enjoy learning from your videos.
No! I'm so sad that you painted a Haywood Wakefield! Restoring or restaining with a light colored stain would have netted you so much more money from a collector. We would have loved it "as is," even. 😢
You're work is always top notch. I'm glad you painted it, keeping it true to you and your style. This isn't about the others and good riddance to the one who hit the road. Keep being you Lauren, it's what we all fell in love with you for.
I really appreciate that you took the time to go through everything and be so transparent. You truly are an amazing teacher… I know I’m a broken record… taking time to explain everything… it really makes a difference. Love the success you are enjoying. It is an amazing Christmas! Oh I love the blue! B~}
While it is just a piece of furniture, there was no reason to have to paint it. Removing the yellow finish and spraying it with a semigloss laquer would have been lovely and on-trend for many.
I love your videos and I love y’all! I have a request for the flipmas videos. Can you do Christmas music in the background 🫶🏼 lol. Other than that y’all are incredible! You’ve inspired me to start flipping furniture!
My dear FFT, You are a master! Thank you for your channel! I know you use an extractor but I'd love to see you wearing a mask when removing decades old finish! We love you so, and don't want to see you sick.❤❤❤
You should sell this for way more than $500.... I'd say more like $1000-$1200? I googled Heywood Wakefield and they are super expensive! It's gorgeous!
Yeah, problem is she painted it instead of restoring it. Takes the value down A LOT. Honestly, not a smart decision on her part from a profit perspective.
Just dreadful what you did to that fine piece of furniture. You might have made your profit, but what a shame you wouldn't take some extra time to give it a proper refinishing.
I have some of these dressers. From what I've seen it's hard to restore the finish and get it looking as it should. Most people who varnish it again find that the the wood grain pops out too much and it ends up looking really weird. So it's very understandable she didn't want the aggravation and frustrating of restoring the original finish.
It looks nice, but not every piece could or should be painted. There's another channel that tents to do more restorations for quality, historic pieces. Some furniture is better painted, and some better to be restored.
never heard of this maker so to me its absolutely fantastic. it would have been hard not to buy more pieces from this collection at that sale. Its such a simple design to sand down.
She said it was cheaper than the other furniture. Wonder if it wasn't just HW style and not an actual piece. Either way her choice not ours. I think it looks nice. I've tried stripping and staining my cabinets that are that color and they look awful. Going back to paint.
Actually the colours you chose and the more matte finish really emphasizes the cool chunky round lines. It flatters the shape of the piece much more than the yellowy stain.
I looked it up and it had a lacquer finish and under that the wood is yellow birch, yes very resinous, a good birch log will smolder all night in your fireplace. I never heard of birch furniture before.
😡I have loved everything previously done but when I saw you were going to do a vintage MCM Haywood-Wakefield piece, a panicked “NOooooooo!” came out of me. My reaction was that you’ll ruin it. And you did. But it’s only paint; hopefully someday it can be restored back to its original wonderful design. Some designs are so classic that they should be considered off limits to makeovers, this piece being a good example.
Well stated. With such great skills, it's a shame that she does not understand the responsibility she has to historical pieces of furniture. This is not about Good Housekeeping decorating 101.
Very sorry to hear Neiman has been so ill. There is a nasty cold going around...I hope he's feeling well now, best wishes to him! And you take care you don't get sick, too! I'm curious to know what happened with FB Marketplace. To borrow the perfect term that precious baby on FB uses: FB is a stinkerbutt!. Hope it gets resolved in your favor soon. Also, I LOVE this piece. I, too, think it could have sold for more. Your buyer got a deal in my opinion, good for her...as she was apparently kind and understanding it is a good thing that it went to her! Blessings all round!
Oh my gosh. I have the same dresser with a mirror and the bed frame!!! It was my parents. I refinished it about 10 years ago. I don’t have the heart to paint it. I’m anxious to try the wax to help the drawers slide better. Thank you!
Love your channel! I'm a teacher too and started flipping on the side after watching nearly every video you have. I recently purchased the Surfprep sander and seeing how much you use it. If you ever take video requests, would you please do one on which foam pads you use the most and for which jobs? They have so many to choose from and they are expensive so I'd like to get the ones you think you need most. Much appreciated if you consider doing it.
Admittedly, I cringed when you said you would paint it. But I have to say I WAS WRONG. Your color choice is on point. The piece looks so much better with the navy and stained handles. Well done. You continue to inspire me in my flips. Merry Christmas!
Beautiful! I would have never considered buying it, even for the price you bought it for, simply because of the color of the wood. You did a great job.
This looks great! And I can't wait to hear more about you being banned on FB Marketplace! I keep seeing others say they are banned and no one ever knows why!
It’s really pretty. I felt a little different about you painting it and I don’t usually care when you paint but that’s so MCM that I imagined you were going to get a lot of blow back at least. It came out looking pretty and you like it and the people who bought it like that so everybody’s happy. I am not going to fret about it and it is pretty. I do think the wood itself was beautiful, but it was all very one note and I can see why painting seemed like a good idea.
Hello! So blue is NOT my fav color? But I’m thinking it’s perf for this piece. Came out great! So I too want to say I’m super proud of you for teaching us the struggles you had. I wonder how many would even had the knowledge to fix the bleed through. Forget show us. Again great job! Hugs and Merry Christmas!
I am so enjoying Flipmas! Thank you so much, for all of this great information. By the way, I think if you buy it then you should do whatever you want to furniture. Happy Holidays!
I'm so sorry this lovely piece gave you such problems. it looks so nice painted blue. Since it took a week for the streaks to appear I would have told the customer that you need to hold the dresser another week (after your final coat) in the off chance that the problem isn't solved.
Yes. People are going nuts that you painted a Haywood Wakefield piece. Though it looks nice, maybe you could have used that technique on a more mundane piece.
Heywood Wakefield furniture is always made from solid northern yellow birch, they never use veneer or particleboard. I would never paint this furniture, but it does look nice.
Painting a Heywood Wakefield dresser.... It will be tough for anyone to completely remove that color later. All for less than $200 profit. 😢
You could have sold it as is for $1000 or more!
Ads I saw were $1500 and $1750!
Agreed. Super painful to see this on a beautiful, classic piece of furniture.
Heywood, not Haywood. This particular piece sells for about $850 on Etsy.
I am horrified at this woman's arrogance, ignorance, and disrespect for historical pieces of furniture. Apparently, she did not grow up watching Antique Roadshow. Imagine the "real" skill required to restore this piece to its original beauty. She would have tons in profit. Please save your paint jobs for the junk pieces. Those transformations are fabulous.
While it looks lovely in blue, restoring it would have brought 3 times what you sold it for. That said, most of these collectible dressers are not sold through Facebook so it may have sat a while.
I really like your videos, but this one broke my heart. The piece was a great piece of furniture. Not nearly as valuable now.
I would have loved the whole thing with the same stain as the pulls and feet. The wood was in such good shape, just too yellow.
Hopefully Someone will buy it and restore it. Very disappointing.
Would have been worth at around $2,000.00 if you had restored the original finish. You probably could have sold it for close to $1,000.00 as was.
Painting unremarkable mid century furniture is fine, but HW sells high. Made no sense to not turn around and sell as is.
I know! Makes me sick that she painted this beautiful antique Wood dresser. I won’t be subbing or watching her anymore..😮😮😮
And the person who bought it will likely be stripping this ugly ass paint off. Ugg! Leave it alone amateur!
Oh, plz don't paint!
Too late. It sounds like you've pulled put primer.
It's likely that your customers are younger, not sure they care if pieces are wood or not.
Genuine hardwood furniture, especially fine quality is becoming more difficult to buy.
Lmao these comments. I’m 60. If you like wood furniture but it if you don’t like painted furniture don’t buy it. I do not like unpainted furniture. It’s my preference. But to say you won’t watch her again because she painted a piece is stupid 😂😂. That piece of furniture was ugly I don’t care what brand name it is
wah... I am sad to see this piece be desecrated with paint.
Why would you do that?!! BAD decision!!!
I think the finished piece is lovely. It saddens me that people come onto your channel & are so mean. You deserve better than that. If people dont like it, they should just move on to the next video. Plus, there IS such a thing as constructive criticism & so many posts just chose to be unkind & rude. You did great & keep doing your thing the way YOU choose to. Oh and P.S. covid is still out there - I have it now - hope you & your guy are both well.
Love the color... thanks for stepping away from green and into the blue!
Not a fan of painting a piece of beautiful solid wood iconic furniture. Ugh
Beautiful job. Haywood Wakefield is prized by collectors. It’s all American Lumber
Really think this is a miss. The before was so much better.
The before was hideous 😅 like yellow orange
I did a reverse look up on this dresser. Looks like about 1943 and they sell for $2,000+. Wowza.
Love the blue!
She really underpriced this piece
No kidding, I saw a similar one for more than $3,000
Just because it’s a classic piece of furniture doesn’t mean it can’t be tastefully modernised. Love the colour and the quality of the piece remains. I do think you underpriced it, it’s beautiful and I think you could have sold it for nearer $800-900. The buyer got a great bargain! 🙂
The piece was devalued.
$250 profit for how many hours of work? When you could’ve made closer to $800+ profit is sad. Considering part of your channel is showing people how to have successful side hustles/businesses flipping furniture, this project didn’t hit the spot for me. I think part of being successful is knowing which pieces to paint, and which to restore. This piece would’ve been a perfect example to teach others that.
I love the deep blue!!!! Sure you could have stained it but its so lovely the way you've done it!!! I hate the yellow color ! Its the design that is beautiful not the original stain!
I’m really upset that you painted a Heywood Wakefield piece. It one thing to paint something that has plastic laminate on it, but solid wood?!? If you have something like this again perhaps you could do a little research to see how much the piece is worth first. This would have been an easy restoration.
This was a flip, which is what Lauren does. She doesn't do a restoration. She sells on marketplaces, which require lower pricing. A restorer would have stayed true to the original and sold at a much higher price.
I absolutely love this!!!! I understand that people are very protective of nice furniture and love having it restored but this really brought it into the current times and will look amazing in a boys/baby room!!!
The look of it came out sharp but maybe on a another piece. This is just one piece I couldn't have painted. Probably devalued it too. You could have gotten more than a $250 profit had you stained it and kept the wood look. I love your pieces though and enjoy learning from your videos.
No! I'm so sad that you painted a Haywood Wakefield! Restoring or restaining with a light colored stain would have netted you so much more money from a collector. We would have loved it "as is," even. 😢
I like how it looks, but it would have been better stained after you took the old funish off. I was disappointed you painted this one. 😔
Girl, no.
Scored it for $200, put 10 hours into it, sell it for $300. $10 hr.
Thanks for watching, thanks for commenting 🤗
Possibly Haywood-Wakefield Revenge?
It's gorgeous, however I wish you would not have painted it.
You're work is always top notch. I'm glad you painted it, keeping it true to you and your style. This isn't about the others and good riddance to the one who hit the road. Keep being you Lauren, it's what we all fell in love with you for.
Amen ❤
Her work is top notch, but she is ignorant about furniture. Imagine her skills applied to restoration instead of desecration. It's a shame.
Sad you ruined the piece. Never paint HW.
I really appreciate that you took the time to go through everything and be so transparent. You truly are an amazing teacher… I know I’m a broken record… taking time to explain everything… it really makes a difference. Love the success you are enjoying. It is an amazing Christmas! Oh I love the blue! B~}
While it is just a piece of furniture, there was no reason to have to paint it. Removing the yellow finish and spraying it with a semigloss laquer would have been lovely and on-trend for many.
a lot less work and more profit too
I love your videos and I love y’all! I have a request for the flipmas videos. Can you do Christmas music in the background 🫶🏼 lol. Other than that y’all are incredible! You’ve inspired me to start flipping furniture!
My dear FFT, You are a master! Thank you for your channel! I know you use an extractor but I'd love to see you wearing a mask when removing decades old finish! We love you so, and don't want to see you sick.❤❤❤
What happened with FB marketplace? How does someone get banned from that?
I think it looks great! Looks better than the original stained piece(to me). Ignore all the haters. They can't even spell HEYWOOD.
You should sell this for way more than $500.... I'd say more like $1000-$1200? I googled Heywood Wakefield and they are super expensive! It's gorgeous!
Yeah, problem is she painted it instead of restoring it. Takes the value down A LOT. Honestly, not a smart decision on her part from a profit perspective.
Just dreadful what you did to that fine piece of furniture. You might have made your profit, but what a shame you wouldn't take some extra time to give it a proper refinishing.
I would have reveersed the paint job---lots of natural wood, and contrasting black handles.
I would recommend zinsser cover stain primer before painting raw wood, quick dry time and recoat / topcoat time in most cases.
she doesn't sell that tho ...
I love how that piece came out. It looks great.😊
I have some of these dressers. From what I've seen it's hard to restore the finish and get it looking as it should. Most people who varnish it again find that the the wood grain pops out too much and it ends up looking really weird. So it's very understandable she didn't want the aggravation and frustrating of restoring the original finish.
It looks nice, but not every piece could or should be painted. There's another channel that tents to do more restorations for quality, historic pieces. Some furniture is better painted, and some better to be restored.
never heard of this maker so to me its absolutely fantastic. it would have been hard not to buy more pieces from this collection at that sale. Its such a simple design to sand down.
Beautiful item. Unfortunately living in the UK 🇬🇧 the shipping would be astronomical 😂. Xx
I think your redo ain't the first on this piece. Maybe there was something else stuck to the drawers something like a golden trim.
No. You should never paint wood furniture. It should be stained an appropriate color for the type of wood it is made of.
🙏🏾🥰💖💯💫🎄
I hated the orange tones of the original. You've done a good deed in my opinion. I'm just a regular person though.
A baby’s room, a teenage boy’s room, a bachelor’s room? Perfect for any of them.
As someone who dislikes orange-stained wood furniture, I appreciate the painted look!
I couldn’t watch the paint going on. I love your channel but this hurt.
I can't believe you painted this I would have left alone the color is not a good choice
A boys room !!!
Awesome as usual ❤
I should learn to trust you! I was worried about painting this one but it turned out so beautifully ❤
She said it was cheaper than the other furniture. Wonder if it wasn't just HW style and not an actual piece. Either way her choice not ours. I think it looks nice. I've tried stripping and staining my cabinets that are that color and they look awful. Going back to paint.
it had the logo in the drawers so it was authentic! the rest were just in much better condition
I loved it before you took the hardware off! I did a similar one like that, except with the top natural finish as well.
Actually the colours you chose and the more matte finish really emphasizes the cool chunky round lines. It flatters the shape of the piece much more than the yellowy stain.
Love it!!
What a nice combination with the color and stain. You're on a roll with the selling! Kudos to you!
I love it painted.
I looked it up and it had a lacquer finish and under that the wood is yellow birch, yes very resinous, a good birch log will smolder all night in your fireplace. I never heard of birch furniture before.
Birch veneer is common. They have it that semi opaque wheat finish because it was stylish at the time, and birch doesn't stain easily.
😡I have loved everything previously done but when I saw you were going to do a vintage MCM Haywood-Wakefield piece, a panicked “NOooooooo!” came out of me. My reaction was that you’ll ruin it. And you did. But it’s only paint; hopefully someday it can be restored back to its original wonderful design. Some designs are so classic that they should be considered off limits to makeovers, this piece being a good example.
Well stated. With such great skills, it's a shame that she does not understand the responsibility she has to historical pieces of furniture. This is not about Good Housekeeping decorating 101.
I have a matching chest of drawers, but not from Haywood Wakefield. From a local Midwest furniture company. This is giving me ideas.
Yes please paint it and try the Fanfani Italian style
I need to know where you got this light!!! 19:23
Way better than original 💕💕💕💕
Wow. I often think you underprice your work, but in this case, i just googled similar dressers, and they're listed at over $1500!!
Very sorry to hear Neiman has been so ill. There is a nasty cold going around...I hope he's feeling well now, best wishes to him! And you take care you don't get sick, too! I'm curious to know what happened with FB Marketplace. To borrow the perfect term that precious baby on FB uses: FB is a stinkerbutt!. Hope it gets resolved in your favor soon. Also, I LOVE this piece. I, too, think it could have sold for more. Your buyer got a deal in my opinion, good for her...as she was apparently kind and understanding it is a good thing that it went to her! Blessings all round!
Oh my gosh. I have the same dresser with a mirror and the bed frame!!! It was my parents. I refinished it about 10 years ago. I don’t have the heart to paint it. I’m anxious to try the wax to help the drawers slide better. Thank you!
Love your channel! I'm a teacher too and started flipping on the side after watching nearly every video you have. I recently purchased the Surfprep sander and seeing how much you use it. If you ever take video requests, would you please do one on which foam pads you use the most and for which jobs? They have so many to choose from and they are expensive so I'd like to get the ones you think you need most. Much appreciated if you consider doing it.
Wow! ❤
I’ve been banned on marketplace too….back on now though…it’s crazy
Admittedly, I cringed when you said you would paint it. But I have to say I WAS WRONG. Your color choice is on point. The piece looks so much better with the navy and stained handles. Well done. You continue to inspire me in my flips. Merry Christmas!
Beautiful! I would have never considered buying it, even for the price you bought it for, simply because of the color of the wood. You did a great job.
This looks great! And I can't wait to hear more about you being banned on FB Marketplace! I keep seeing others say they are banned and no one ever knows why!
So sorry this happened! Lots of work! Glad you were able to seal it and repaint! Hope the customer loved it, I did!
Yip that looks like the wood glue has absorbed into the carcass of the drawers. Break out the Bin or Bulls eye 123 and that should cover it.
I think it looks good people want to complain just buy it yourself and you resand it and stain it. 🙄
You are so wrong for this. Rot.
It’s really pretty. I felt a little different about you painting it and I don’t usually care when you paint but that’s so MCM that I imagined you were going to get a lot of blow back at least. It came out looking pretty and you like it and the people who bought it like that so everybody’s happy. I am not going to fret about it and it is pretty. I do think the wood itself was beautiful, but it was all very one note and I can see why painting seemed like a good idea.
VERY PRETTY
I don’t know why everybody is against painting furniture, your painted furniture looks lovely!
No stain. I think it will look nice it's a Wakefield I. It's day was expensive.
still is... quality construction never goes out of style.
I still say stain in white wash look. I'm 74 and my day I couldn't afford this furniture, so I say please don't paint stain it will look fabulous.
Priced way to low
Hello! So blue is NOT my fav color? But I’m thinking it’s perf for this piece. Came out great! So I too want to say I’m super proud of you for teaching us the struggles you had. I wonder how many would even had the knowledge to fix the bleed through. Forget show us. Again great job! Hugs and Merry Christmas!
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I am so enjoying Flipmas! Thank you so much, for all of this great information. By the way, I think if you buy it then you should do whatever you want to furniture. Happy Holidays!
I'm so sorry this lovely piece gave you such problems. it looks so nice painted blue. Since it took a week for the streaks to appear I would have told the customer that you need to hold the dresser another week (after your final coat) in the off chance that the problem isn't solved.
Wow... Turned out gorgeous as usual 😉.. Thanks for sharing love you both ❤
It is bad
💥🛋❤️ Always amazing! TYFS! Don't ever stop. You guys make my day! ❌️⭕️
Thanks for keeping it real Lauren. Nice to see you trying a new colour. Love your head band ❤🇨🇦
I love the colour you chose and the care you take to uphold your brand name, great finish Lauren. I am really enjoying this flip fest..
If it were mine I would have loved a light taupish color wash.
It's Beautiful! I love the dark blue color also!!
Awesome price. I have a Heywood Wakefield dining table that needs restoring. Local company quoted $450 just for the top! Extra to include the legs.
That finish is really hard to get off. You may want to clean it and put a few coats of shellac on to revive it.
Whatever to all the non-painters…I love it!
It's ready for display at Michaels!
So interesting to see the weird things that can happen and how you solved it, Lauren. Great job!