Tag Archive | "Craigslist"
Moroccan Seasoning
I’ve heard it said that the good we do comes back to us but I never imagined that included coffee tables. Many months ago I helped a friend pull together a new apartment. Now, circumstance is taking her in a new direction and she offered me the table back, one of my all-time favorite finds. And it just so happens that I recently purchased a vintage Moroccan berber carpet on Craiglist for the absurdly low price of $150 (the rug is 7’ x 11’ in amazing condition!). I know the rug is not to everyone’s taste. My friend Doreen came to dinner last night and thought it was one step up from hideous.
Musical Chairs
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Did you ever imagine that my $20 mid-century side chairs could end up looking like this? Neither did I, which is why I sold a pair of them last week for $100, which represented an excellent return on my investment but a supremely stupid move in retrospect now that I've seen the pictures of these James Mont chairs, kindly provided by Troy Seidman of Caviar 20.
Dear styleNorth . . .
Saturday, July 3, 2010
I got an email today from styleNorth reader Elizabeth who wrote to say that "the beautiful Milo Baughman chairs on Craigslist that you wrote about last year . . . well, I lucked out and got them! The evolving nature of our decroating is leaning much more heavily to the Arts and Crafts side and we are re-selling our Baughman chairs on Craigslist. My original prediction that the chairs would probably wind up "in a Leslieville shop window next week for two or three times the price" still holds.
Not Quite Wormely
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Ed Wormley is one of my favorite mid-century furniture designers and when I saw the Craigslist ad above, I was struck by how similar the chairs are to Wormley's famous Captain Chair (below left) and also to his Petite Armchair (below centre), albeit with a soupçon of Scandinavian flair. I immediately emailed the seller who informed me that she actually had three of the chairs, although the third had a different fabric. I arranged to go see them.
Smells Like a Makeover
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
StyleNorth reader Debbie wrote to me with her latest project, the dining chair makeover above. "I found the chairs on Craigslist for $15 (for all 4!!)," writes Debbie. "The beige fabric seat cover was grungy and stinky, so I got rid of it right away. A little bit of steel wool and elbow grease revived the chrome, a few coats of white paint on the cane backs and new Ikea fabric for the seats, and they look pretty good to me."
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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