Vintage Furniture - The “In Love With Old Wood Things” Thread
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Mather
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Okay maybe it's not that mind blowing, but I'm drinking...
Splunders
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Nabbed this on CL about 10 years ago for $300 I think. Love the tambor doors. Used to serve as our bar, but it's now slumming it as the kids toy catch all. It's a Drexel piece of unknown vintage. Put it anywhere in the house and that room just got a lot cooler.
Likely the oldest piece of furniture in the house, and also the piece that will last the longest. Dovetailed drawers and nary a screw to be found. Wax it every so often and you're set.
Likely the oldest piece of furniture in the house, and also the piece that will last the longest. Dovetailed drawers and nary a screw to be found. Wax it every so often and you're set.
Mather
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That's under the double oven
Thackeraye
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Thackeraye
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bfly
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love those dimensional pyramid doors. guessing early 70s walnut, but can't place the exact style- reminds me of some of the United Furniture pieces.
my place is in moving shambles right now, some of my pieces don't have the drawers back in them yet, but here's a fun little wood + brass lamp I picked up from an estate sale for photo tax.
MikeH
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Went to Brimfield antiques fair this weekend (as is an annual tradition in my family). It’s a mile long of vendors selling all sorts of stuff. There’s tons of mid century stuff but most of it is priced way too high now. We did manage to get a womb chair though, which is possibly the comfiest chair ever.
That chair is heavenly.
bfly
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oh wow, and the fabric looks in good shape. is it a Knoll with the og boucle???
good grab either way.
MikeH
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Yea fabric is in surprisingly good shape. A little faded in one or two spots. But it does appear to be a Knoll boucle fabric. Hard to tell how old the chair is or if it’s a legit one. There’s no tag on it anymore but the dimensions seem to match which I know is typically an indication that it’s legit. A lot of the knockoffs have different heights and sizes. Either way it’s a real comfy chair that was cheaper than most newer arm chairs we had been looking at.
MikeH
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nice one! that place seems to have a lotta nice stuff. they have the rocking chair i really want one day...
kvetcha
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The rocking chair with the teal pillows? I wanted to buy it but we have no place for it.
PegLeg is great. The folks running it are just really enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and will talk your ear off. I recommend them unreservedly.
MikeH
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That’s the one. Sadly I’m in NY so probably not worth it even if they ship. I had my sights on a mid century rocker awhile ago and it was out of my price range at the time.The rocking chair with the teal pillows? I wanted to buy it but we have no place for it.
PegLeg is great. The folks running it are just really enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and will talk your ear off. I recommend them unreservedly.
I might drive down to Maryland to visit my bro at some point this summer though and if so I may swing by there on the way back!
mdmost
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This is not really vintage furniture but I just had to say we finally got new couches for the first time in 17 years, the length of time we've been in this house for the den where we watch TV and my wife works remotely. It's like we have an entirely new den. Got an L shaped sectional in blue and a new area rug to go under it. It really matches the art deco Chicago motif of our den. We have some old World's Fair and 1930s era prints on our walls. My wife did a great job coordinating it. The family is sitting/laying on the new couch right now. We've been slowly updating our house as it's really showing its age. It was built in 1955 and has a lot of late 90s renovations that we're slowing undoing and bring more modern. Things like new light fixtures. We're about to redo both bathrooms later this year.
MikeH
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I’m a huge fan of an L-shaped couch. When I moved in with my girlfriend (now wife), that was the first thing we bought together.
Our house is really old and we are slowly updating things as well. It was built in 1870 and we are somehow only the 4th people to own it. The kitchen is an extension that was built in the 1990s and it really shows on the inside. That’s probably our next huge project inside. But it’s been fun getting “new” old furniture since we moved from a 1 bedroom apartment into a 4 bedroom house. Hard not to want to buy everything at once until we look at our bank statements haha
Selaws
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Ooooh fantastic thread, thanks for making it @Joe Mac.
Early on in my career I was planning on becoming a cabinet maker until I switched to Architecture. I made a few bits of furniture very early on but haven't had the chance for years what with us living in a flat.
Heres a few bits of furniture that we have bought. Photos are old but it's still the same stuff. A 1960's Danish coffee table that we picked up at an antique store in Central London and a restored dressing table with a matching piano stool. Really liked the shape of these 2.
Early on in my career I was planning on becoming a cabinet maker until I switched to Architecture. I made a few bits of furniture very early on but haven't had the chance for years what with us living in a flat.
Heres a few bits of furniture that we have bought. Photos are old but it's still the same stuff. A 1960's Danish coffee table that we picked up at an antique store in Central London and a restored dressing table with a matching piano stool. Really liked the shape of these 2.
Joe Mac
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I love the lines of that coffee table!