An iconic Logan location became the perfect and right home. Edward’s Furniture was a Logan time capsule. A 1960’s neon sign lit up Logan’s main street for over six decades and before that it was a quintessential brick building with billboard windows on the main and upper story.  Castle looking crenellation details topped the front of the building. It was distinctive and had always been a furniture store, but it hadn’t been touched in years. It was in grave need of renovations and improvements. 

Kent negotiated the building purchase and while Edward’s completed their going out of business sale on the main level, he began working upstairs in the evenings. Green commercial carpet had been glued directly to the wood floors throughout the entire upstairs. Kent and his fifteen year old son Kimbal had to cut the carpet into 12” strips in order to have enough strength to rip it off, and even then- it took both of them to remove it. This was followed by two straight weeks of belt sanding. The residue of carpet fibers did an excellent job hiding small nails and thousands of staples which made the removal and sanding process extremely arduous. 

A false wall was built upstairs, hiding the seven upper story windows that had been covered on the front. Once the frame and pegboard wall was removed, we were able to partially open the north window. It provided a very limited sneak peak to the exterior covered brick and the drilled entry points that mounted the metal framework to the building. 

The main level of the store required so much more work. There was an office that had been built in the corner of the shop that was crudely constructed with 1970’s wood paneling, It covered portions of the brick and needed to be eliminated. 

Behind the staircases reaching to the back of the shop there was plaster material on the walls that had cracked and was failing and crumbling. As we began repairing the plaster we discovered that it was actually covering brick walls. Rather then repair the plaster, we sledge and jack hammered it off and exposed the original brick surface.  

Next was removing multiple layers of flooring. Two layers of carpet with linoleum pathways and and tar-like finishes that were extremely difficult to remove were the obstacles between us and the original wood floor. Belt sanding was next and then we were finally able to paint and move in.