He Ain’t Heavy…He’s Our Newest Dresser (Wait, He Is Heavy)
Greg and I picked up a third dresser for another project over the weekend (making it the 6th this summer). A bit rough, heavy and haggard with an unattractive wood grain made worse by the stain…but there is potential. This … Continue reading
We’re Back…
and we’ve been busy. Greg and I picked up these two dressers yesterday. Even over vacation we were taking orders, returning calls and emails, and monitoring the thrifty finds on craigslist and in stores between Minnesota and Indiana. We’re looking … Continue reading
Shipping furniture(gasp)… can be expensive (duh)
I spent quite a bit of time contacting shipping companies to accommodate the dresser fans over 200 miles away this week. We’ve had interest from people on etsy in Connecticut, California and one person I am not sure where but … Continue reading
Playing Catch-Up and Before/After Painted Antique Dressers
Revisiting the past month (basically bringing our posts from tumblr to this new blog): First dresser project before… (around mid-July 2011) Shaving the dresser top down for an improved look. That’s G, my husband Greg. The condition of the back … Continue reading
Etsy, Tumblr and the Dabble
Before starting this site, I was blogging on our old tumblr blog (also food blogging at the Dabble). I had several posts under my belt including the before, during and after part of our venture so check out that link … Continue reading
Who are the Wits?
Greg (my husband) and I (Annie) seek pieces with potential or quality furniture in modern, mid-century, vintage and antique styles/condition to lovingly and skillfully overhaul them for your buying pleasure. One with an eye for décor and the other a … Continue reading
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We're Annie and Greg Witkamp (aka the Wits, aka Em & Wit Design). We salvage, refurbish and design furniture and homes. We're taking a break from an online & social media presence (for the most part). Our time on the blog was memorable and fun, but we're off to other projects and opportunities. Most derived from our shenanigans here. We'll drop in once in a while, but just know we're off chasing our dreams, tackling goals and living a life we enjoy.
Our specialty is wood furniture in rough shape that we come across on craigslist, at estate sales, on the curb, in a barn, you get it. Those pieces are cleaned, repaired, refurbished and good to go for years to come. Sometimes we design our own pieces.
As of spring 2016, we decided to make this website, the Wits, about our remodeling homes and emandwit.com about the furniture. You can shop there, ask us questions, see our newly finished pieces and portfolio.
We sold our second remodeled home near Seattle in August 2018 and moved to Richmond, Virginia. Getting to Washington was a goal that took years to achieve, but we had an opportunity come up and we grabbed hold (again)!
You can watch our journey right here, there, and/or through Instagram.
-To see the projects we did to our first home, check out the home improvement page. To see our current home projects, scroll through the most recent posts. (I need to update that....)
