Reclaimed Commodities

Shop/Life Update:

This post is an emotional one for me!

The past two years spent starting and running Reclaimed Commodities have been a dream come true. It took so long for me to gather the courage and confidence to leave my stable life as a literacy specialist to follow my heart and start something new. The way that this business has morphed and grown is beyond anything I could’ve hoped for, and to be able to live out your passion is an experience I wish for everyone.

While this is not the exit from the shop I’d anticipated, my fiancé James, who many of you know, received a job offer that he could not refuse in Boulder, so we have relocated to Colorado.

I am so thankful for the many of you that have followed along and supported me at each leg of this journey! I brought all of my equipment and will have a workshop here where I will still be refinishing and creating, so if that’s why you’re here, please stay. Otherwise, I am so appreciative of all of you who’ve made my time doing business on the North Shore the wonderful experience that it was.

I hope more than anything, you will continue to try to reuse and reclaim before buying new, as there is so much beauty to be polished out from underneath a dated surface.

All my love and gratitude,

🤍Jennifer

CUSTOM

🤍Recently refinished this solid tiger oak dining table! The table top was sanded down to natural wood, conditioned, and sealed.

The bottom was sanded down, and painted with Alabaster shade of milk paint. I was pleasantly surprised by how bright and beautiful this one turned out to be.

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SOLD

🗃This campaign style chest is perfect for those in need of storage! This classic stackable set has not only one whole open unit, but also a functioning drawer to keep things organized.

This piece was sanded down, primed, and painted with coastal blue milk paint. It was sealed with their High Performance Topcoat (satin), so it has protection if it’s used as a coffee table or bench at the end of a bed. All of the original hardware was cleaned and polished to shine once again. The inside was in amazing condition, so all it needed was a little conditioning with ’s furniture salve.

It is available and on the floor at the shop. Stop by 12-5 today if you want to take a closer look!

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SOLD

🍒This solid cherry dresser was one of the most naturally beautiful, and highest quality pieces I have worked on. One of the things that is so great about cherry is that it is an impressively sturdy variation of wood, but still has has the mesmerizing grain and swirls of softer wood species.

The original bulky hardware left an imprint due to sun bleaching that I couldn’t get through with sanding, so the drawers had to be planed 1/2 inch to get to a uniform color. After that was done, everything was sanded down, conditioned, and sealed using Arm-R-Seal protective topcoat (satin)…my favorite product. If I didn’t have to sell these projects to support myself, I would’ve kept this one!😉

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