Antique Icebox

We were asked to restore this circa 1900 Honey Oak Antique Icebox back to its original glory. Meanwhile, the owners are now using it as a coffee bar.

This unique antique icebox turned out gorgeous. Above all, we are honored to be a part of it! You can trust Urban Mill Woodworks with your family heirlooms.

Now is a perfect time to get your antique or near antique piece restored. Contact us today to get started.

Be sure to scroll through the photos to see the before and after images.

Description

We were asked to restore this circa 1900 Honey Oak Antique Icebox back to its original glory. Meanwhile, the owners are now using it as a coffee bar.

This restoration involved:

strip old paint
stain oak back to its original honey color
clean and polish original brass hardware
clean and polish original wire shelves
clean and paint interior
spray with a protective lacquer finish

This unique antique icebox turned out gorgeous. Above all, we are honored to be a part of it! You can trust Urban Mill Woodworks with your family heirlooms. Now is a perfect time to get your antique or near antique piece restored. Contact us today to get started.

Make sure you scroll through the photos to see the before and after images.

Here is some interesting history on iceboxes. Excerpt from Wikipedia – “An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as “refrigerators”. Only after the invention of the modern day electric refrigerator did early non-electric refrigerators become known as iceboxes.^[1] The terms ice box and refrigerator were used interchangeably in advertising as long ago as 1848.”