I've told the story about the ceiling in my newly fitted kitchen collapsing on to my new table and chairs. It happened back in 2000 and was caused by the bathroom fitters causing a flood. The ceiling was thick Victorian plaster, and the weight broke the new pedestal pine dining table and badly scratched the chairs. They all had to be replaced, even though they were only a few months old.
I've never been particularly happy with the chairs - they are lightweight and unstable when a large cat stands his front feet on the back of one... They aren't very comfortable, either.
So there I was yesterday mooching around Greenwich Market, and I found some solid oak chairs rather like this. They were so comfortable, I bought some. I bartered! I might even get an oak table to go with them. (You can't have a pine table displaying its beautiful top with 7 cats in the house, or it becomes a mass of digs and scratches, so mine is alway covered up, and it's as good as new. But I'd like to be able to have it bare).
Anyone know someone who could use a table and four chairs, going cheap?
8 comments:
That's alot of cats. If I ever want to get rid of any furniture etc., I always contact either Salvation Army or charity shop. I really like the style of the chair.
Can you get a tax writeoff for donating them to charity? We do over here. How about an ad in the paper on on the internet? Do you have "craigslist"?
Or, you could paint them pretty colours and/or with designs and use them out in your garden and/or patio to hold potted plants.
well as holly says, charity shops are usually happy to take them... or you could sell them on ebay I guess
I wish you many happy hours seated on your new oak chairs; good for you.
A nice chair.
I'm sure your cats will let you know just how comfortable your new chairs are...can't sit on anything in this house without moving a cat first :-)
Apart from advertising in your local paper,no idea what you could do with your old ones...
I saw the picture of the chair before the text (naturally) and for a minute there, thought you'd managed to acquire something the D'evine D'Onofrio had sat on! ;0)
julie....
oooh, JoJo's idea about painting them and putting them in the yard is a great one.
Hey Val - do you ship to the states? I would love to have the table and chairs!
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