Before & Afters by Eddie Ross

Chairs "After"

Eddie Ross is a Martha Stewart Living staffer (Senior Style Editor), a contestant on the current season of Top Design AND was on the Martha show last week because of his own blog. Our favorite posts that he puts together? The before and afters - he is one talented makeover artist! Go below see the "before" on these chairs & a few other fun furniture rehab projects...

Chairs "Before"

Secretary "Before"

Secretary "After"

Fluted Column Side Table "Before"

Fluted Column Side Table "After"

To read Eddie's posts on how he dreamed up and pulled off all of these fab projects:

Before and After: Greek Key Side Chairs

Before & After - A Stylish Secretary Makeover

Before and After: Fluted Column Side Table

And, check out the entire Eddie Ross blog here.

Photos: Eddie Ross

Comments (14)

i heart eddie.

posted by animalhouze on September 22nd 2008 at 4:31pm
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hmm common theme: paint everything white!

posted by nikki354 on September 22nd 2008 at 4:41pm
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Totally dig the whole adaptive re-use of thrift store stuff most people walk right by or dump in the alley thang. With that said, I think Eddie's aesthetic needs to be tweaked a bit to lose some of its Martha-ness.

posted by beddybee on September 22nd 2008 at 4:55pm
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Makes me wish I had nabbed my grandmother's secretary.

Hopefully the person lucky enough to snatch it up at the Goodwill did something equally cool with it.

posted by Seaside on September 22nd 2008 at 5:10pm
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What's important to note, though, is that all of this furniture was in crappy condition beforehand, or was of mediocre quality. Painting a good quality antique would be a travesty.

posted by Lisa (Montreal) on September 22nd 2008 at 5:45pm
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Oh I love the side table as bar! But sometimes I like a bit of natural wood...those chairs looked kind of nice to begin with. Lisa, you know that you can refinish wood with stain, not just paint!

posted by michpc on September 22nd 2008 at 6:03pm
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interesting. love the green detail in the last one.

posted by mrahhh on September 23rd 2008 at 5:43am
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We as humans have clearly mastered the art of making furniture look new and clean by painting it white. Now, I issue a challenge to future generations: make furniture look and new and clean by doing something, ANYTHING other than painting it white.

posted by ChristopherB on September 23rd 2008 at 6:44am
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love his blog.

posted by stlellen on September 23rd 2008 at 8:12am
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I love him on top design...thanks for the link to his blog!

posted by hanako66 on September 23rd 2008 at 8:31am
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wow, paint everything white. Sometimes painting things is good but seriously this tread has about 2 more years and then we are going to see posts about how to strip paint off of wood furniture.

posted by TheoJ on September 23rd 2008 at 10:03am
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the green inside of the side table/bar is a very cool touch

posted by himsl on September 28th 2008 at 9:42am
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The man can appreciate a Jadite reamer. Knowing that, I can forgive about anything... ~:o)

posted by quiltmaster on September 28th 2008 at 2:42pm
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Fabulous! the gray chairs are just amazing they look like a million bucks after

posted by Simply Sarah on October 22nd 2009 at 3:22pm
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