Fine furniture diverts attention from a house's flaws, such as drafty floorboards or ceilings that leak maple syrup. Siphon stares away from the stickiness with today's Groupon to Furniture in the Raw. Choose between the following options:
- For $50, you get $100 toward furniture.
- For $50, you get $200 worth of furniture finishing.
Since 1977, Furniture in the Raw's craftsmen have manufactured and curated wooden furniture and lacquered bare timber in custom paints, varnishes, and stains, with some furniture made in the U.S. Like a designer's arboretum, the showroom displays untreated and factory-finished oak, maple, alder, birch, and cherry furnishings to grace homes and offices or fill the larders of beavers. Woodworkers specialize in oak, maple, and pine bookcases ($184.99+) that arrive fully assembled and can elevate literature to heights of 72 inches. A solid-pine slat headboard ($119.99) from Archbold Furniture Co. endures nightly suffocation by pillows without warping or crying to mom, and a sturdy Whitewood desk ($189) enables families to pass on their work ethic for generations.
In the custom shop, nimble hands layer durable conversion varnish on nude kitchen chairs ($40), dipping into one of 18 General Finishes stains. Alternately, a federal-blue Milk Paint can cover a dining table ($80–$200) and its leaves ($25 each). Request a specialty crackle finish for a desk ($90+) to make it look as shabby-chic as Oliver Twist in a ruffled velvet doublet.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Speed-Reading
If you're reading this sentence, chances are good that you're literate, but if you're still reading it, you're one of the disproportionate number of Americans who are not speed-literate. Crank your reading rate to superhuman levels with these tips:
- If you encounter a thick chunk of text, skip every other word. If a character is giving a long speech, skip the whole thing and make up your own.
- Train your eyes to move more quickly by watching recorded tennis matches on fast-forward.
- Learn Braille so your hands can read one book while your eyes read another.
- If you're reading a mystery, just read the last chapter where it's revealed who did it to save yourself from the anxiety of the investigation parts.
- Count a book as "read" if you thought about looking it up on Wikipedia.
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