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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-14, Page 12•1 l?. Rage 12- .1[; Se thiel, .Wednesday,, March 14, 1979 Vacuum Cleaners by Eureka Clean 6 Ways Better...... a 6 Settings to Clean all types of Carpeting -,,'. LOW ., Cleans LOW -• Nap Carpeting NORMAL Cleans NORMAL - Nap Carpeting • HEADLIGHT ,EDGE 'KLEENER 6 SETTINGS HIGH Cleans HIGH Nap Carpeting i. SHAGS Cleans 'SHAG Rugs b Yr. Guarantee on Main Casting Greer: � E�ectcic Phone .528.3112_ LUCKNOW oe aII Dry Cleaning orders of $5.00orover - Ti�l Il�lgrch.31,1 Your Dry Cleaning may be left at the following outlets TEESWATER Cosy Restaurant Letteau's Clothing Store ; .. AMBERLEY Macflayr's General Stbre GREENOCK - oiaren's General it Alterations KINLq.SS Silver Lake Store LUCKNOW H & B. Discount PINE RIVER Cameron's .`General. Store RIPLEY ,...„,,1&att's Variety Store CLEANERS 640 -13th AVENUE DIAL •364-2380--NANOVER INQUIRE ABOUT OUR FULL LINE OF MAJOR REPAIRS NEW ZIPPER, CUFFS, pOCKkTS,HEMS SHORTENED AND LENGTHENED, FTC. We have Suede and Leather Cleaning Servicei Jr Refinish old furniture Fred and Barb Emberlin, Canning Street, Lucknow, refinish old furniture in their garage in the summer months. Fred, a retired interior decorator, says it . wouldn't have paid him to stop decora- ting to redo furniture, but he enjoys refinishing furniture as a hobby. Fred would never us a metal scraper to strip old finish, because it could nick or cut the wood. He uses an old wisk cut short or a curly katerHe has used a metal scraper on badly stained windowsills. He uses a varnish remover and polystrip, which is water washable.. "You can never clean them off too good," says Fred. "When it looks good, ao it once again." He strips all pieces he work's on two or three times. When he washes off the polystrip, he uses a sprayer and it's surprising to see the particles that come off. This is why he and Barb do their refinishing in the garage, because things get rather sloppy. Tfiey allow the furniture to dry for two . . days before applying the finish. Fred likes to use a sanding sealer, which dries in about two . hours, because varnishes and urethane don't finish down the same. . Barb says most of the refinishing 'tl<iey do is for their children, like the dining room suites for their daughter, Mary and their son, John, and the old high chair and the $11 chest they made into a desk for another daughter.. Barb remembers with fondness the sideboard in their son, John's dining room suite and also a china cabinet they did once for a friend, This past summer their daughter, Mary, brought home a cradle which belonged to a friend of hers, who is expecting her first child. The cradle is over 100 years old and four generations of the family have slept their babies in the cradle. Barb and'Fred.refinished the cradle and Fred made new rockers for it, from a pattern he got from John Wraith. The old rockers had been replaced by little wheels., which had since become worn and bent. , Fred ,found that the place on the cradle where the rockers were to fit was slanted and the pattern made the rockers slanted to fit perfectly. Barb collects salt and pepper shakers and goes to auctionsales to find salt and peppers and old furniture. At the time she was doing the cradle; she found an unfinished .cradle at an auction sale, which sold for $84. She finds that you can't buy at auctions the way you used to, "because stuff is so expensive". But the odd piece she brings home they refinish and it usually ends up in the home of one of their children. "We Bever get our own things done," she•says, looking at an, old high chair painted red .which they may .get +in p to refinish next summer. Fred Emberlin is especially proud of the dining room suite he and. his wife, Barb refinished for their son John and hter--law Deli The sideboard.is a favourite with Barb. Fred never uses a metal scraper to stripold finish but rather an old wisk or a curly kate. He says • you can never clean off furniture too well when -refinishing and when a piece looks good, he always does it once again. "[Sentinel Staff Photo]