12.15.2010

my recent chair finds

I found these set of chairs about a month ago and I know they won't go with the rest of my room decor on the main floor or in the basement but I bought them anyway.  If you must know I am a chair fiend; modern, industrial, early american, retro or just plain weirdo (interesting), I really don't care I love all old chairs equally.  So I found these olive green chairs at the auction and was amazed at their condition for being old and all,  the original upholstery are all intact, free from tears or any stains and the wood is just gorgeous, I had hubby stained them in dark mahogany and they turned out beautiful.  They are also very comfortable to sit on and so well made.
Anyhow, as with furniture and in this case chairs, it always takes longer to list them for the fact that they're big and a challenge to photograph and also the notion of letting them go is enough good reason to procrastinate listing.  I wish I have a big house to accomodate all the pretty chairs I come accross with on my many auction trips (sigh).

I was able to get some decent shots of them yesterday and they are now listed in the shop!




9 comments:

  1. Wow! Beautiful photos, I bet they'll be snapped up quickly!

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  2. wow those are awesome - so royal. I love the way they are shaped :)

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  3. Those are wonderful. A great price and beautiful photos - I'll be someone will snap them up.

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  4. wow! gorgeous! i pass up chairs all the time now. i had a bit of an addiction there for a while .... but there is simply no where to put a chair! and i think it's great that you can ship them! i haven't braved shipping items that large ... yet :)

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  5. That is a great pair of chairs! I made a similar find last month of a beautiful tufted velvet vintage chair too but I am keeping mine! You can check it out at http://sixballoons.blogspot.com/2010/11/royal-blue-victorian-velvet-chair.html

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  6. alex - I mostly used Fedex with smaller chairs or footstools, with bigger ones I used Greyhound and it's very easy.

    Sixballoons - you made a great decision to get the blue chair, it's beautiful!

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  7. What a lovely article I really enjoyed it, please keep posting more stuff like this, thanks again, keep posting x

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  8. oh my goodness! my grandparents had that EXACT same chair!!! seeing those pictures took me down memory lane as a child...thank you for sharing!

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