Where it all began…
The Broken Masterpiece was founded in 2016; painting and flipping furniture became my therapy. After moving cross country, planting a church with my husband; I was in need of a quiet creative space and I found FURNITURE! Our garage became my She-Shed and my safe haven. Each piece of furniture that comes through my work space is given new life; like the Lord does with each one of us! Some pieces need chemical stripping, some just need a few layers pruned back….some need a new coat of paint and a diamond in the rough is discovered each and every time. God’s love restores our souls, and restoring furniture is a very similar process! Each piece comes in broken, abused or just in need of a shine and we turn each one into a masterpiece!
I started the broken Masterpiece after a need to create a space for my own creative outlet. In 2015 We had moved across country 2400 miles from California to North Carolina. My life had revolved around raising small children, planting a church and being the best pastor’s wife I could be. But my inner business entrepreneur was lacking big time. In 2016 my amazing mother-in-law took my babies for 5 days, it was the first break I had had like that in years! I vowed to do something for myself during those days instead of deep cleaning and organizing my house. One day I went into a store in waxhaw North Carolina called funky monkey where I saw my first painted furniture piece. I fell in love with every piece in that shop, and I thought… “I could probably learn how to do that!” So I went home and went straight to Pinterest and Google and started looking at making my own chalk paint and flipping furniture, I didn’t even know it was a thing! That weekend I bought my first dresser at a garage sale for $30, I made my own furniture paint, hand painted my own handles and sold my first piece for $130. I was hooked. With that money I bought supplies to do my next few pieces and from there on my business grew…
The time in my garage became my therapy, my safe Haven where I could process all the ins and outs of raising young children, being a pastor’s wife and being in a new town navigating friendships in my thirties. That space to work became the place I talked to God. For every piece that I worked on, I prayed over it. I prayed over the people in my life around me and every piece I got to take from broken and battered to beautiful and gorgeous.. When I needed to come up with a business name, I felt like the Lord spoke to me about the poem that He talks about in the Bible, that we are God’s workmanship created in His image, His beautiful masterpiece. What God does with every one of us is what I get to do with every piece of furniture.. some of us need chemical stripping, Some of us just need a good cleaning. Others need a full overhaul. Refined. Reflecting the creator. It’s a JOY to be able to do something I love!