A vintage chair, just reupholstered, for $125. What am I missing here?
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A vintage chair, just reupholstered, for $125. What am I missing here?
Not missing a thing. That chair is in great shape, and anything for $ 125 that has all its legs on and no holes in the cover is a square deal.
Thank you, Duane. I'm going to look at it on Friday. The woman who is selling it is an upholsterer and she reupholstered the chair. I had just never seen this style (Chippendale?) with those small wooden pegs where the front arms attach to the seat, and wondered whether that particular design feature represented a lower quality.
For the price, its great. Those wooden pegs are actually button blinds covering the screws that attach the arms to the frame. There's two ways to attach an arm like that, the gold standard is to peg them on or use a sliding dovetail. When you do that however, if the chair arm gets a sharp blow the arm explodes at the joint and the chair is ruined. With screws, a sharp blow means the screw blows out and the frame is left intact, so its not all bad.
I was just thinking, "At that price for a newly upholstered chair, the seller must have recovered it..."It seems like a sensible thing to do if you have the time and skills - pick up structurally sound but pathetically sad chairs at garage sales, etc., reupholster them and sell them for a modest profit.Quote:
Originally Posted by organic_smallhome
I know it's not available, but I would love to see the "before" picture on the chair.