Sunshine Flock
Crowing
I'm just super duper awesome at starting discussions that get people so dang excited to post comments, they beg me to create even more!!
Hahaha!!!
There's a growing graveyard of these discussions around here somewhere. RIP dear ones. And so here we go again.
Old lonesome chairs tug on my heart strings, especially hand crafted, all wood, no fabric chairs. But they're all lovely, and every time we go to a yard sale, thrift store or an antiques mall, I turn on my chair radar and seek them out.
Windsor chairs are my absolute favorites. I love the history and am fond of both the ones made in England, where they hail from, and American Windows, but American in particular. The Windsor chair is perhaps the one piece of furniture that can be considered an American icon.
Earlier this year, I found a dainty women's Windsor at a thrift shop for $9. That's actually more than I'm usually able to pay, but I was thrilled when I found her under a pile of hockey gear and old birdhouses. She's wobbly, and her spindles need to be reset, and the black paint seems to have been spray painted on at some point. But she's still such a dear.
I'm guessing early to mid-20th century. My parents have an old family heirloom Windsor I'm certain dates to no later than the second half of the 1800s. My mom's family hails from Pennsylvania, where the first Windsor was believed to have been made in America. So that has me feeling rather excited to research this chair.
And a few days ago on the way to taking my husband to work (he has vertigo and can't drive), I saw a red Windsor with a free sign on the side of the road. We drove by at a decent speed, and when I hit the brakes my husband lurched forward as I screamed, "Wiiinnnnnsssddddooorrrrrr!!!!!!"
The chair is almost identical to the lady chair, but heavier. I'm guessing 1950s or later.
I'll post photos some day. I'm bad about taking photos. But I wanted to see if anyone else loves old chairs as much as I do. Do you have any photos to share? Here's one from the archives of my beloved cat Kuma, who was taken by the coyote who attacked my rooster Henry. The chair was a roadside freebie I kept out in the garden.
I love you, Kuma, and miss you so much!! He's the one with the crooked tail on top of the chair.
Merry Christmas, folks!!
Hahaha!!!
There's a growing graveyard of these discussions around here somewhere. RIP dear ones. And so here we go again.
Old lonesome chairs tug on my heart strings, especially hand crafted, all wood, no fabric chairs. But they're all lovely, and every time we go to a yard sale, thrift store or an antiques mall, I turn on my chair radar and seek them out.
Windsor chairs are my absolute favorites. I love the history and am fond of both the ones made in England, where they hail from, and American Windows, but American in particular. The Windsor chair is perhaps the one piece of furniture that can be considered an American icon.
Earlier this year, I found a dainty women's Windsor at a thrift shop for $9. That's actually more than I'm usually able to pay, but I was thrilled when I found her under a pile of hockey gear and old birdhouses. She's wobbly, and her spindles need to be reset, and the black paint seems to have been spray painted on at some point. But she's still such a dear.
I'm guessing early to mid-20th century. My parents have an old family heirloom Windsor I'm certain dates to no later than the second half of the 1800s. My mom's family hails from Pennsylvania, where the first Windsor was believed to have been made in America. So that has me feeling rather excited to research this chair.
And a few days ago on the way to taking my husband to work (he has vertigo and can't drive), I saw a red Windsor with a free sign on the side of the road. We drove by at a decent speed, and when I hit the brakes my husband lurched forward as I screamed, "Wiiinnnnnsssddddooorrrrrr!!!!!!"
The chair is almost identical to the lady chair, but heavier. I'm guessing 1950s or later.
I'll post photos some day. I'm bad about taking photos. But I wanted to see if anyone else loves old chairs as much as I do. Do you have any photos to share? Here's one from the archives of my beloved cat Kuma, who was taken by the coyote who attacked my rooster Henry. The chair was a roadside freebie I kept out in the garden.
I love you, Kuma, and miss you so much!! He's the one with the crooked tail on top of the chair.
Merry Christmas, folks!!
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