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What We Sell:
Kate Madison Furniture & Antiques, LLC. sells custom-made, handcrafted
furnishing for the home or office. A team of expert craftspeople build
armoires, tables, chairs, buffets, beds, and desks inspired by 1880s French
Country furniture. Each piece is finished by hand with quality milk paint
for a distressed, antiqued appearance. All our products are built by experienced
craftsmen in a 25 year-old woodworking workshop in Quebec, Canada. Each
item is made of 100% premium pine wood milled in Canada.
French Country style is one of the most popular decors today. It is regularly
featured in magazines, books, and television shows. It's a return to basics
— where people are looking for furniture that functions with "real
life" demands. It's a look that reflects simpler times, bringing
back farmhouse ambiance with a contemporary feel.
 About
the Craftsmanship
All of the furniture is made of solid-wood milled, and constructed
in Quebec, Canada. A group of 19 carpenters and cabinet makers build each
piece to your specifications. The craftspeople make furniture of new and
old pine wood then finish it to have an antiqued appearance. Our items
feature expertly crafted crown moulding, beveled and raised panels, turned
legs, wood pulls, and custom-joinery.
* None of our products contain plywood or pressboard. Each piece
is crafted like it's one of a kind!
About Milk Paint Finishes
At Kate Madison we finish each piece with the highest-quality Milk Paint.
Milk paint was used to color furniture and interiors of houses during
the colonial period — but, its origins date back to Ancient Egypt.
Colonist created the durable mixture out of milk protein, quicklime, and
earth pigments to create brilliant, and fade-resistant finishes. It's
a technique that's used today in fine furniture making. Each color is
rich in depth and authentically reflect an "antique" or "old
country" look.
Milk paint does not chip like regular paint. The texture and character
is also quite beautiful, it has a flat, course texture, and transparent
quality. Its shading gives it a custom quality that was common in furniture
of centuries past. Because of the lasting-color, many 100 year-old antiques
still have the same richness of color as when they were originally painted.
Some believe that milk paint gets richer the longer it ages. We take care
to finish your furniture because we believe that custom-made furniture
of today is an antique of tomorrow.
In The News!
Living with Chateau Chic, by
Stephen Henderson, Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006
Francophiles to the core, a design-minded couple
built their own New York château after years of traveling to 17th-
and 18th-century estates in France. Here, a look at their style and the
buys that can help anyone get that château look.
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Full Story »
Kate Madison Furniture Featured on TLC's Hit Show
Moving Up!, May 2005
From Bachelor Funk to Eclectic Spunk, a Philadelphia brownstone
gets remodeled.
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New England: What's What,
by Elements of Living Magazine (The Design Source), October
2005
Thanks to Kate Madison Furniture, there's no need to fly off to Lyon
to acquire custom-made Provencal furniture.
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Full Story »
Discovering Kennebunk's Lower Village, by
Danie Connolly, Port City Life Magazine, July-Aug. 2005
If you are looking for antiques and fine furnishings, start with Kate
Madison. This tastefully decorated store, complete with antiques and reproductions
is well worth a peek.
Kate Madison Furniture Thrives on Tradition,
by Carol Standish, Tourist News
"These handsomely constructed standing cupboards aren't just for
clothing anymore. Open the optional pocket doors and the space inside
neatly accomodates a TV, DVD and stereo equipment or your computer and
keyboard tray and storage."
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Kate Madison: Virtually Starting a Furniture Business, by Dan Mac Alpine, Melrose Free
Press
" ...Overall, the 50 pieces in currently in the Madison line,
convey a sense of permanence and heft. The 90-degree angles, raised panel
doors and drawers, turned wood pulls, and crown moldings on the larger
pieces such as the armoires and cupboards seem to say, "Move me,
I dare you." This is definitely not on-the-go furniture."
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Who We Are:
 Jamie
Meighan O'Brien, Founder / Owner
Jamie Meighan O'Brien, Owner of Kate Madison Furniture & Antiques,
LLC, has a red living room. This passion for color, design and home furnishing
has drawn her to build a business that focuses on quality, solid wood
furnishings. She grew up in retail -- gaining an eye for the unusual,
and compulsion for stopping at the local antique shop.
In the real world, she spent 10 years working in creative and marketing
for companies including; Time Inc., Sapient and AltaVista. Through her
experience, she designed, launched products, and helped develop brands.
Jamie plans on picking up a few pieces of Kate Madison furniture each
year, because a house is never "finished".
 Jeffrey
O'Brien, Owner
Jeffrey O'Brien, Co-Owner of Kate Madison Furniture & Antiques,
LLC, passion for details makes his life a visual pursuit. In a unique
balance between design and technology, he can gab and agree with both
analytical and creative minds.
He brings 10 years practical knowledge of the web from AltaVista, Cahners
and the Associated Press — and balances it with a love of design
from his collegiate illustration roots. Jeffrey has won awards from HOW
Magazine, and BestDesigns.com for his interactive work. Jeffrey finds
Kate Madison furniture clean-lined, and classic — without a catch.
What
Customers Are Saying:
Thank you for making my home so beautiful.
Having lived with the bookcases I ordered for a week now, I had to write to thank you all at Kate Madison for making my home so beautiful. My books look stunning in them and they are every detail that we spoke of. — Solace, New York, NY
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We're Thrilled!
We are delighted with our new dining room
furniture - the individual pieces are all perfect for their location in
the room, and for their use, but as a collection, they are breathtaking.
The quality of the furniture is excellent, the delivery times were even
better than expected, and your expert assistance in helping us decided
on the furniture pieces to combine was sincerely appreciated. I am sure
we will enjoy this furniture for many, many years to come. — Janet & Sean, Patten, ME
I wanted to take a minute to thank you for the OUTSTANDING service.
I really appreciate the extra mile you went
to get my beautiful table and cupboard to me in time for my family reunion,
which was a great success with your help! — Julie, Basking Ridge,
NJ
I just want to thank you for the beautiful French County Bookshelf!
I am so happy
with the color I decided to go with. The piece is a perfect size for our
kitchen and now I can put away all my nice china from my wedding! It was
a pleasure ordering from you all and thank you for my gorgeous new piece
of furniture! — Dana, Chagrin Falls, OH
Everything went great!
Thank you for all your help and great customer service. We received the
Metro armoire and love it! Delivery and everything went great. So happy
with the piece...We will keep you in mind if we need anything else...
—Meredith, Canton, MA
These pieces will look authentic in my antique colonial home.
I'm thrilled to be able to customize pieces to work into a remodeling
project. The cupboard and buffet, and island add a great custom look to
my kitchen. — Marilyn, Wolfeboro, NH
This piece is a keeper. It does a great job hidding
all my TV clutter.
I looked at a lot of furniture dealers for a TV armoire — but,
for the solid wood quality and price Kate Madison's TV Armoire was unlike
anything else I found. — Christopher, Hillcrest, San Diego, CA
Coffee never tasted so good!
Our coffee table was just what we were looking for. The antique
look and superior construction was a great value at the price. —
Jim, Hamburg, NY If I ever closed my desk, it would be perfect!
I use my computer armoire all the time. I'm working from home and
it's a perfect solution for all my equipment and paperwork. I also have
a two-year-old and it allows me to close it up and keep it away from the
kids. Now, if I could just get a vacation. — Joanna, Groton, MA |
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