Lupe Navarro

I have been bringing home other people’s furniture for most of my life. A chair at the side of the road, a dresser from a yard sale, a table with a split top. I paint and mend them in my carport, on a pair of sawhorses, with the door open and a pot of coffee going, and then they live in my house or somebody else’s.

The pieces I make are mostly for friends and neighbours. What I sell is the part that is useful to you: the guides I wrote down as I learned, the colour recipes I keep in a notebook, the templates for new drawer pulls, and two video courses for people who want to paint a first piece and have it come out well.