Thursday, November 10, 2011

Thrift Store Finds! Chairs, Chairs, Chairs!

Usually when I'm shopping for used furniture upholstery can be tough to find. It seems like upholstery is usually in pretty bad shape. I was determined to find a few chairs for our new house though!  Accent chairs from a typical store are at least $100 each (or way more) and usually they do not have that much character--which is fine, but I love to add as much character to my house as possible, some might find it funky ;)  

First, for my living room I needed one little chair. I found this cute little lady chair for $29! The upholstery was in perfect condition! At first I thought, grandma chair? and then I thought, no--with one of my orange elephant pillows it would be perfect! Joe got suckered into buying the orange pillows outside of a movie theater in India by a good salesman--at the time I thought I wouldn't use them, but now i'm happy he got them! (why did we go to a movie in India you ask? it was so hot we had to get some a/c!)
Here is my little lady chair in her thrift store waiting for me to take her home:

Orange "Boudoir" Chair

This one is awesome and totally funky--and perfect for our front sitting room. I saw this one fun day when I was out "antiquing" in Ottawa, KS with my mom, Rudy, Larry, Alexis & Lilli. They probably thought I was crazy but I thought I just have to have that chair! So, my mom got it for me for my birthday! I think it was like $50, but later when we got it home we found a price tag on the bottom for way more
so it must have been marked down :)

Last, but not least, my Blue Tufted Wingback Chair. I love tufting and the classic style of a Wingback chair. This one was the perfect color so I had to have it.
Here is the front room with the Wingback and Boudoir chairs. 
I love how they are different but still complement each other well.



Here is the living room with my little lady chair

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