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| Tweet Topic Started: May 13 2010, 12:11 PM (812 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | May 13 2010, 06:04 PM Post #26 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Thanks - that's Janet's good taste, not my own. Mark and apple - I've seen pics of your homes - they ain't ghetto.. 'Hey, homie, c'mon in and chill.. but don' scratch the Estonia'
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| ilm | May 14 2010, 09:06 AM Post #27 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Mikhailoh - nice pictures! It looks like you have very high ceilings where your dining table is. Mark - I love Amish furniture. I was interested in a 46 in round with 2 leaves and 6 chairs, by Borkholder, but it would have put me back over $4,500.00 plus sales tax. I think back how I spent much more on a piano without reacting as much, but then again, I was employed. Our house does not have a diningroom, so what we are looking for is just a table to be in our kitchen area. ilm |
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| Mark | May 14 2010, 09:33 AM Post #28 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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We went to a store that sells Amish furniture. They wanted more than $5k for the table and chairs we specified. We wanted the table to be 120" x 54" with 2 leaves and 12 chairs. We ordered it and could not get anything less than a 6-12 month delivery which was a little upsetting as we wanted to have everyone over for Thanksgiving dinner the year we moved in to this house. We had a contractor over to paint the dining room and we told him about the table and chairs. He told us we should take a 3 hour drive to go see the Amish in person and pretty much guaranteed we would save a ton of money. We did just that. When we described the table we wanted to Rufus the Amish guy. He did a few calculations on a a piece of paper and quoted us $800 for the table and $80 per chair. He quoted an April delivery. I asked him if he would be able to speed that up and have it to us before Thanksgiving and if he could I would pay him a 10% bonus. He thought about it for about 10 seconds and said yes he could have it done before Thanksgiving for the extra 10%. We cancelled the table and chairs order from the store but we kept the Amish built hutch they had in stock which was a cancelled order from someone else that we got for a very good deal. We verified that with Rufus. He pretty much said that he could not build the hutch for what we paid for it so we kept it. We brought a door from the hutch to him so he could match the finish on it. That was 12 years ago. Amazing how time flies. |
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| big al | May 14 2010, 09:39 AM Post #29 |
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Worst table we ever owned was a glass top with a wood frame beneath and cane panels inset in the frame to match the chairs. The children were small and any liquid spill ran to the edge of the table and then wicked into the space between the glass and the frame by capillary action. Then the top had to be lifted or removed to wipe it up. A royal pain! Our kitchen table is a 35 year old wood-grain laminate with chrome frame. Chairs are chrome with wire backs and faux-leather vinyl seats. They've been recovered once. Dining room furniture is Queen Anne in cherry Table is rectangular with two leaves. Seats 10 very comfortably and 12 without crowding too much. The chairs are well worn and have some stains - they're about 32 years old and due to be reupholstered. I've had experience with round tables and generally don't like them. Everyone's knees and feet seem to encounter each other. My #1 and #2 criteria for furniture are comfort and durability. We have an eclectic variety of styles. For example, bedroom #1 is oriental styled bed, dresser, night stand and chest with some plain bookcases and a lacquered small chest for a second night stand, #2 is all Australian pine bed, dressers, night stand, and desk that I finished, #3 is an antique oak dresser and chestnut chest that I refinished, oak bookshelf I built, two brass twin beds, and a compact oak desk and chair, #4 is an old iron double bed that I refinished with a wall lined with white laminate built-ins with light birch drawer fronts. Home is what you make it. I like a place I can live in without too many worries. (By the way, Mik, i think that mermaid table is great.) Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 14 2010, 03:03 PM Post #30 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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oh yeah.. you don't want a glass table with a frame on the outside. We had a patio table like that. It was very good stuff - Brown Jordan - but EVERYTHING got caught in it and you had to take the glass out to clean it. Big pain. But the glass top table and chairs we have had in the solarium for 17 years is not like that. We bought it used the weekend we moved in here for $200. I'd say we got our money's worth. You can see the semi-polynesian style here. ![]() |
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| kluurs | May 14 2010, 04:14 PM Post #31 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Mik, Mark - love both your tables. Both of your dining rooms look inviting. |
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| RosemaryTwo | May 14 2010, 05:15 PM Post #32 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hey Mik -- that's the Cheetoh picture. I'd recognize it anywhere. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 14 2010, 06:45 PM Post #33 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I was young, and unconcerned about nutrition. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Lisa | May 16 2010, 08:15 AM Post #34 |
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Junior Carp
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If you live in an area with craigslist (www.craigslist.org) and you are not averse to secondhand furniture, I highly recommend taking a look there. (It's a free online classifieds site, if you are not familiar with it.) Kitchen tables and dining room sets are abundant -- you can often get something that is older, built in the USA, and 10X nicer and more sturdy and the new chinese-made stuff in teh stores today -- for about 1/10th of the price, if that. If you're on the hunt for oak, even better, because around here people are selling off their old oak sets left and right precisely because it's not "trendy" anymore -- so you'll have lots of choices and bargain basement prices. Most of my house is furnished from craigslist/ebay/antique and junk stores. I've got unique pieces built out of real wood and probably paid less than $8000 total for all the furniture in my house. I have been burned a few times with upholstered pieces that developed weird smells after I got them home, so I'm not sure I'd chance craigslist for upholstered pieces again, but for anything made from wood, it's the only way I shop! |
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| blondie | May 16 2010, 08:20 AM Post #35 |
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Bull-Carp
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Nowadays I have a Sauter. I need to practice more often.
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