Remnant

Remnant is a husband and wife team that has been sourcing and restoring mid century modern furniture in Portland since 2012.  Our offerings are available locally at Vintage Pink , 2500 SE Hawtho...

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We have finally back in full swing with our upholstery service.  Since our last post we have completed several projects and several of them have already been sold. This oak frame sofa needed...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/08/before-after.html

Lately we have been finding some great project pieces!  It has been a few months since we have been able to do much upholstery.  We are finally starting to settle into a routine since the birt...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/07/project-time.html

Summer is always the most exciting time of the year to go hunting for furniture.  The weather is nice and there are more estate sales and garage sales than any other time of the year.  The sea...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/06/sweet-summer.html

Over the past 7 years we have upholstered and refinished hundreds of pieces of furniture but we had never attempted to replace a Danish paper cord seat.  I had heard from a few other dealers th...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/06/lesson-learned.html

The two weeks since our last post have been a whirlwind of activity.  In addition to caring for our new baby daughter, Lucy Rose, we found some incredible furniture.  Pricing on the pieces tha...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/05/spring-time-finds.html

Hello, this is our first post since February.  We have been distracted from our usual routine due to the birth of our second daughter, Lucy Rose!  Here she is, just a few days old, pictured wi...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/05/a-new-addition.html

The month of February in Portland has been cold, wet, and frozen but that hasn't slowed us down.  We have acquired and finish several great projects.  Here are a few of our favorites from the ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/02/frozen-february.html

We've been working hard on one project after another.  Here are before and after pictures of each piece.   This was our favorite project of the lot.  We took a survey on Instagram to help...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/02/projects-projects-projects.html

We have gotten off to a great start in 2019!  On January 1st we picked up an amazing Danish dining room set including a 104" long dining table, 8 chairs, a tambour door credenza, and a solid te...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/01/so-much-teak.html

We have started off 2019 with a bang!  Over the past 7 years we have used a Toyota T-100, Chevy Astro Van, Toyota Highlander, and Honda Odyssey to move furniture.  Each one was helpful in its ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2019/01/new-year-new-van.html

It is always a thrill to find a rare piece of furniture in need of restoration but the amount of work involved can be intimidating.  When I found this Adrian Pearsall 2315-C sofa it had been si...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/12/major-restoration.html

Time has flown by for us this fall and it has been two months since our last post.  We have completed  two cool projects this week.  The first is a gondola sofa that we upholstered in a deep ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/11/time-flies.html

We finished out the summer by finding several van loads of furniture.  We haven't even gotten around to photographing all of it but here is a sneak peek of what we have photographed so far. ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/09/more-in-store.html

On monday I posted about several of the refinishing projects that we had completed recently.  Well that was just the tip of the iceberg.  We have found and restored many other pieces during th...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/08/the-iceberg.html

Lately we have been putting more of a focus on wood refinishing.  The more I do the more confident I get in taking on difficult projects.  Recently the result of each project has exceeded our ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/08/restored.html

This weekend I went on a 300 mile picking trip and found a whole van load of furniture. This Poali rocking chair is one of our favorite chairs to find.  It was exciting to find this one.  I...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/08/super-pick.html

Recently we found an incredible bedroom set.  It is the Symmetry line by Drexel and was created in 1957.  One of the unique aspects of this set is that it is made of teak, oak and rosewood.  ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/07/super-set.html

Each year the summer is the time when we find and sell the most furniture.  The beginning of this summer has been no exception.  We have found some wonderful pieces and sold many was well.  H...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/07/the-best-of-times.html

In the past two weeks since our last post we have taken a bit of a slower approach.  We completed a couple custom projects and hosted our daughter's 1st birthday party.  Here are a few of our ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/06/in-past-two-weeks-since-our-last-post.html

This week we found some amazing pieces of furniture.  Three of them are already for sale and the last piece is awaiting upholstery. Amazing Danish teak trimmed sofa.  This sofa has amazing ...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/06/danish-more.html

Our primary project this week was reupholstering the gondola sofa that we found recently.  We picked out some modern teal fabric that compliments the sofa // Sold Refinished and reuphols...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/05/the-latest-and-greatest.html

This week we finished a few projects that are now up for sale.   We were excited to find this Drexel Declaration Centennial dining set.  It is a beautiful fusion of modern and shaker desig...

http://www.remnantpdx.com/2018/05/chairs-tables.html

It's been nearly a month since our last post.  Don't worry nothing  has changed.  We've been working away on various mid century furniture projects.  Here are few highlights from the last 4 ...

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Here are 3 pieces that we found and developed over the last week.   Rare walnut mid century modern executive desk from the Parallel line by Drexel.  This desk is very interesting example o...

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