Personalized Furniture Refinishing Kit

We personalized this custom furniture refinishing kit with actual honey. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

We personalized this custom furniture refinishing kit with actual honey. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Personalized Furniture Refinishing Kit

Over the years, our customers have given our personalized furniture refinishing kits for a variety of occasions birthdays and Christmas gifts to housewarming, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts. I may be wrong but this order was our first for a retirement gift and I thought as I was wrapping it to ship, what a perfect gift for someone about to start a new chapter in their life.

When I think of all of the things I had on my to do list prior to retiring from my former full time job, refinishing furniture was on the top 20 of that list. It’s not so much that it is hard to do, it just takes time and patience to get it done correctly. When one is working full time, it is easy to rationalize putting a project like that off because it’s hard to carve out a length of time one can devote to working with wood.

In addition to personalizing the kind of Howard RestorAFinish added to this gift set, I added another special treat that the recipient can enjoy separate of the furniture refinishing kit. Imagining how the gift recipient would feel getting this furniture refinishing kit as a retirement gift and what it represents, I added a little jar of Bluebird Gardens honey to enjoy with her cup of tea as she sits back and admires the finished furniture project. Or contemplates what she wants to do with the project before she starts but realizes she doesn’t have to rush getting into it.

Either way, that’s what I like to do!

Charlotte

Personalized Furniture Refinishing Gift

Our red and blue quilted bags are lined in plastic and come with a free gift tag.

Our red and blue quilted bags are lined in plastic and come with a free gift tag.

Personalized Furniture Refinishing Gift

There are several ways customers can personalize our furniture refinishing gift kits:

1. They can choose from a quilted, plastic lined gift bag or a vintage lunch box.

2. They can choose what color of Howard Furniture Refinishing color is included.

3. They can write their own special message on the enclosed gift tag.

The inside of one of our personalized furniture refinishing gifts, do you see the extra item?

The inside of one of our personalized furniture refinishing gifts, do you see the extra item?

This last order included another little surprise. We added a little 2 oz. container of Bluebird Gardens honey with a small wood honey dipper. Seemed only appropriate since Howard furniture care and refinishing products are made with bees wax and carnauba oil.

Our little surprise in this furniture refinishing gift, a little honey and honey dipper!

Our little surprise in this furniture refinishing gift, a little honey and honey dipper!

If you want to add something personal to your furniture refinishing gift, there's room for a little something. In the past we've added a little wooden toy set, a small tin of fresh catnip and even a box of homemade chocolates.

This particular furniture refinishing gift was ordered as a housewarming gift. What other special occasions would you think of giving a furniture refinishing gift?

Charlotte