Something New From Something Old (1958)

★★★★★ · Educational for the Furniture Refinishing n00b · BondoFox · 2008-06-22

Okay, if you're going to refinish furniture, don't you have to restart? ... Good little flick. The only problems I had were details. Jack -- if that is his REAL name -- is using paint stripper without proper ventilation, with a closed window *right behind him*! Neither one of them were wearing goggles. And Jill was spraypainting an empty frame and later a wooden chair with an open back, with nothing to protect the carpeting or surrounding stuff from stray spraying paint. Now the REALLY funny/ironic part: I Googled the address given at the end for ordering the booklet -- that box is now…

★★★★ · This old film about this old apartment · Spuzz · 2005-06-11

Since we don't have many fix-up-around-the-house films in the archive, I found this film to be a bit of a delight, as we meet 'Jack and Jill' a lovely couple with not much money but a lot of varnish and paint remover (notice the sponsor?) to fix whatever furniture they have to make their rageed old house with descrepit into a stunning home of descrepit furniture!! :) They revarnish the old desk, make a bed into a couch (something my mom did in my old apartment) and made a perfectly good door into... something. Yaaa. Very fun to watch this chipper couple do their designs on their place…

★★★ · Cute but a little too idealistic · ERD · 2006-08-25

A cute 1958 film but a little too idealistic to be realistic. A few important safety features are disregarded. Well acted, filmed, and directed.