May 29, 2012
This is a neat old piano stool / chair. The seat height is adjustable thanks to a big iron screw thread. The letters cast into the iron are too faint for me too read so I don’t know the manufacturer of this component.
The rest of the chair is wood and is generally simply styled except for some patterned veneer in the upper chair back and carved claw feet. Unfortunately one of the chair back uprights needs repair (see slide show below) but otherwise it is in good condition. The top of the back is about 37 1/2 inches tall.
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May 27, 2012
Tanker; rhymes with . . .?
To be honest every time I see a tanker desk I think how good a mooring point they’d make, but this one isn’t too heavy. In fact it is light enough that one scrawny used stuff slinger can move it (with a hand truck) across level ground without additional help.
Moving up or down stairs could be another matter.
The desk measures 50 inches wide 24 inches deep and 29 inches tall. Although there is one small crinkle in the front right corner of the left side drawer stack it is in good shape overall. The drawers and slide out writing shelf all work well too.
Although the paint is in fine shape as is it’s rather drab by modern standards. Maybe post-atomic apocalypse bunker is your decorating scheme (that’s OK) but if not this would be a great candidate for repainting .
Think candle apple red, mandarin orange or blue lagoon. Yowza!
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May 26, 2012
Mr. Chair is sitting at the Community Warehouse Estate Store West waiting for you. He is all alone, wondering if he is just too ’50s for this modern world. Mr. Chair was
Mr. Chair is almost 3 feet tall, likes to recline, swivel and provide much needed relaxation time. He is in good shape for his age and reclines with only slight groans. Are you the one to bring Mr. Chair home?
Come visit Mr. Chair and more at Community Warehouse’s new west side Estate Store on Friday through Sunday 10-4.
8380 SW Nyberg St
Tualatin OR 97062
503-612-0020
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May 24, 2012
This is a great piece. It’s especially interesting as it provides a diametric counterpart to our last Scandinavian modern styled bar cart and shows how good design can accomplish the same goals but end up in radically different places in the process.
At first glance this is just an unassuming, squarish wheeled stand. However it is finished in fine rosewood veneer with a black colored laminate top. Then, the front door opens and tucks back inside so you can access the revolving mufti-tiered carousel / lazy Susan. It is a compact yet elegant solution to a storage problem.
The cart is about 17 inches deep, just over 17 1/2 inches wide and stands 30 1/2 inches tall. It is in fabulous condition and there is a manufacturers label on the base that I didn’t decipher except to read that this item was made in Denmark.
$225
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May 23, 2012
This vintage table was made by the nationwide specialties company of Chicago and features a pseudo-Japanese/Chinese print under the glass.
This was a folding table but it has been modified top be in a continually fixed (open) position. I’m unsure of the original finish but someone spray painted it black at some distant point in the past. The print has some slight wrinkling from atmospheric moisture but overall it is in good condition.
It is 21 inches long, 15 inches deep and slightly over 16 inches tall.
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May 20, 2012
Arts & Crafts style rotating book case. Great display piece for a store or a good way to squeeze a lot of books into a small space (just don’t over water the plant on the top shelf!).
The book case is roughly 20 inches square and stands 35 inches tall.
It is in great condition and was probably made in the 1970′s.
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May 19, 2012
Breakfast sofas? What the . . . ?
One is dark chocolate-brown and the other is a lovely toffee or caramel color and we all know that caramel and chocolate are great breakfast foods. In fact toffee and chocolate are the regular breakfasts of business leaders, Olympic athletes and other highly trained professionals. And occasionally they suffice for blog authors too.
Regardless, the dark chocolate-colored leather sofa is about 70 inches long and we’re asking SOLD since it has minor flaws like a slight loss of color on the cushion edges (see slide show below).
The toffee colored sofa is somewhat larger, at about 84 inches wide. This sofa was once owned by a dog who kept a person on staff so the sofa does have claw marks. They are a little unsightly but I found it was comfortable to sit in never the less.
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May 18, 2012
It doesn’t have a lot of depth, but don’t call it shallow. Think low-profile, chill or incognito instead.
This vintage / antique piece is about 30 inches wide, all of one foot deep and 41 1/2 inches tall. It is in good condition too.
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May 17, 2012
This cabinet is a good functional cross between table and a display cabinet. The inside has two glass shelves which are lit from above, so you can show off ‘precious things’ while the top is still low enough that it can be used as a table stand for something else. As an added bonus it has two shallow lined drawers. It is in very good condition and measures 30 1/2 inches wide, 18 1/2 inches deep and 41 inches tall.
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May 13, 2012
Is this more fun than a barrel of monkeys? I don’t know because we’re fresh out of monkeys but it is a neat piece none the less. Some one took an old barrel and made a custom one of a kind bar out of it. The barrel bar features a built-in ice bucket accessible through a trap door in the top, lined receptacles for glasses and bottle, casters so you can move it around, and a hasp on the doors so you can lock it to keep honest people out.
It stands just under 32 inches tall and is about 24 inches in maximum diameter.
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May 12, 2012
This is a great old table which, if just a little care was given, could last another hundred years. It appears to be pine or a similar coniferous wood, has two drawers and two suspended flour bins. Unfortunately the original slide out cutting boards are gone, but someone made replacements from bamboo that are pretty nice. If you’d like a different look another set of cutting boards would be relatively easy to fabricate and it’d be a great chance to put your stamp on the table for future generations to admire.
It is in good condition with mostly age appropriate wear and some recent marker marks on the table surface due to exposure to children (see photo’s below).
The table measures 48 inches by 26 1/2 inches and stands 30 inches tall. The drawers work well, as do the bins.
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May 11, 2012
Linear geometry, robust construction, limited ornamentation and the use of natural woods and rustic finishes are some of the hall marks of Arts & Crafts period furniture.
For instance this sideboard. It is a medium-sized piece, spanning 44 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 38 inches tall to the top of the 3 1/4 inch back splash. It is in good condition and as you can see in the pictures there are two storage compartments on the far sides, two small central drawers and one large, full-width drawer below.
That particular piece was a commercial production item, possibly British, so they did take a few short-cuts. The top for instance is oak veneer over a cheaper substrate and the door panels are similarly made. As a result it is actually pretty light for its size, which you may appreciate if you need to carry it up stairs.
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May 10, 2012
My understanding is that these wonderful nesting tables, made by Vildbjerg Mobelfabrik of Denmark, were designed by Kai Kristiansen around 1960. All of them are in great condition with no major flaws and are made of solid teak.
They nestle together nicely as nice nesting tables necessarily do.
The biggest of the tables is about 2 4 1/2 inches wide, 15 1/4 inches deep and 17 1/4 inches tall. The smallest table is about 18 1/2 inches wide, 15 1/4 inches deep and stands 14 1/2 inches tall.
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May 6, 2012
Cool old reclining platform rocking chair, upholstered in deep red vinyl. It’s pretty comfortable and in good condition.
Something, but I’m not sure what, makes me think this would be an interesting barber’s chair, or at least a good place to recline for a hot towel shave.
It is about 27 inches wide and 36 inches tall to the top of the upright back.
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May 5, 2012
The [blasted] lights in the little room make everything look like it’s eaten far too many carrots, or squandered the rent check on a barrel of spray tan. In other words, things aren’t as orange as they seem.
Vintage serpentine front dresser made of oak; It has two full width drawers with two half width drawers above. The top, mirror frame and mirror harp are solid oak, the figurative serpentine drawer fronts are veneered. The dresser is in great condition although it was probably refinished at some point.
It measures 38 inches wide, 20 1/2 inches deep and 66 1/2 inches tall to the top of the mirror.
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May 4, 2012
Today is the day! We’re pleased to announce that we are formally opening our new west-side Estate Store in Tualatin. It’s located in the same facility as our donation center at 8380 SW Nyberg Rd. We’ve been taking donations for a few weeks but it’s time to get our lazy-bones up and working so the store will now be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm (Of course the donation section is still open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm as well).
The Heywood Wakefield model 710 lounge chair and ottoman you see above were pretty good incentive to get this started. It is in fair to good condition given that there are some flaws (one hole on each arm and some torn stitching in the seat).
Barring upholstery issues this chair and ottoman is pretty darn comfortable and the wood and metal bits are in good shape. The best part is that it still has the separate head rest piece. Since this is not attached to the rest of the chair it’s usually long gone.
As the store gets up and running we’ll be featuring more stuff from there here at Estatestore.org and eventually we plan to set up a separate page for it, much like the Garage Sale page (which you should take a look at!). Until then maybe we’ll see you there
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May 3, 2012
This antique secretary desk with storage drawers is an unusual find. It was made by the Grand Rapids Furniture Company (of Grand Rapids of course).
The fun question is which Grand Rapids Furniture Company?
Historically there are at least three companies with the name operating from 1877 to 1890, 1897 to 1906 and 1905 to about 1950. I’ve no way of telling, with the limited references at hand which one this was made by but my guess, based on the Art Nouveau inspired scroll work and the use of solid oak is that this dates to about 1900, plus or minus a few years of course.
Anyway it’s a great piece with an upper compartment containing a variety of pigeon holes and an ‘aftermarket’ added drawer within one of them. The door to this cabinet acts as a fold down writing shelf and can be secured by a lock, which came locked, but for which we didn’t get a key. Luckily we found one among our stash of ‘things that aren’t currently useful but might be someday’. Contrary to the often held belief that someday never comes, in fact someday did come, it was several days ago and not unexpectedly, the lottery tickets we didn’t buy didn’t win.
Below this cabinet are two full width drawers, they work well, are in good shape and seem to retain the original drawer pulls. These drawers don’t have locks so you never have to worry about being locked out of them.
This piece stands 53 1/2 inches tall, it is 32 inches wide and 15 inches deep. It is in good condition.
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May 1, 2012
Like curiously strong mints these tables are small, but potentially powerful. They are only 21 1/2 inches tall, 8 inches deep and about 13 inches wide. The shelves are pierced metal plates and they are in good condition.
I can imagine places they might be useful, like at either end of the sofa you bought without measuring to see if it would fit in the room with the rest of the furniture you already own (It’s OK I’ve been there too).
You could use it for storing the spare rolls of T.P. in the bathroom of the attic that your landlord jokingly called a cozy studio apartment. The very same apartment that you were desperate enough to take before realizing that you had to shower while sitting on a milk-crate (It’s OK I’ve been there too). Looking in the bright side, at least your jokes about ‘low overhead’ were no longer just metaphorical.
Of for one of a hundred other places where big things don’t fit but a little table with a shelf would be useful.
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April 29, 2012
This set of five ornately carved Chippendale style chairs probably date to the late 19th or early 20th century.
The chairs are unmarked except one bears a faint chalk number 236, which is probably the pattern number. They are made from solid straight grained mahogany and they are all in variable condition, but with a baseline of ‘good condition’. Two of them are absolutely perfect, the other three have minor flaws, most notably missing* trim pieces (You can see an example of what I mean in the slide show below). If you were an enterprising sort of person you might be able to take the five chairs and make four near perfect ones by switching parts around.
The seats were redone in vinyl at some later time. Given the use of a sort of burnt pumpkin orange color material my initial guess was the 1970′s. However upon looking at the seats closer I noticed that the support is canvas webbing and there is a thin veneer of rust on the nail heads, so perhaps the 1930′s would be a better fit.
The top of the back is about 40 inches tall.
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*Personally I like the story that missing parts tell about the history of an item. In the broadest sense it is tangible proof of the passing of time and possible witness to what happened. Things like the decline of empire at the turn of the century (both British and Ottoman), the rise of the automobile and the decline of the ice man, the end of the age of Morgan** and the rise (and fall) of the trust-busters.
On another level missing pieces tell of the time when great-uncle Albert and Aunt Grace loaded everything into a Model T and hit the road in the summer of ’35, like so many families did. It reminds us how they only made it as far as Jersey City on US Highway #1 before their will gave out and they decided to settle down in East Orange. Somewhere on that brief journey the car rattled and jumped so bad that they lost one chair and pieces of others too. They turned back when they realized it was gone but all that was left were splinters in the road. Albert always claimed he could have made something out of them, if nothing more than a ship in a bottle. Grace usually walked out at this point in the story, she’d heard it before, besides she knew that the sight of a ship, boat, or even a dingy in a bottle would make Albert seasick.
** The photo of J. P. Morgan in the slide show was taken by Edward Steichen in 1903. This is the first picture I remember seeing of him and it left an impression of Morgan that no other photo has dislodged. The story of this picture is interesting in itself and can be found by following the link here.
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April 28, 2012
For some reason I have a hard time conflating those two styles in my mind, but that seems the best way of describing this piece. It even makes a certain amount of sense; just because folks were broke in the 1930′s didn’t mean they didn’t want stuff in the popular style of the Art Deco era.
So they made things like this cabinet and bookshelf combination.
I’m not sure if it was home-built or factory-built on the cheap. They did a decent job either way and used good materials (unlike certain modern flat-pack retailers).
It is 42 inches wide, 12 inches deep and stands 36 inches tall. The cabinet and drawer pulls are wood and there is about 10 inches between the shelves, so you could put ‘real’ books in there, not just mass market paperbacks.
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April 27, 2012
This is in great shape much like that early 1970′s Chevy my grandmother only drove to church on Sundays and to visit the grand kids in the suburbs.
And maybe to the odd Saturday night drag race, but not so much that there was undo wear and tear.
But this is about the buffet: It is 66 inches wide, 21 3/4 inches deep and the top of the back splash is 40 3/4 inches tall. It is in great condition.
There are several nice features including two shallow half width storage drawers and three cabinets below that. Best of all there is a full width linens drawer which is a feature I’m especially fond of. I admit though that the closest I’ll probably ever come to needing a linens drawer is when I need a place to store that new blue tarp I got on sale.
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April 26, 2012
I wonder if furniture, were it sentient, would ever question what it was. Would it wake up in the morning and think “I am not a sideboard, I’m really a table?”
If so it might look like this.
At first glance this is a sideboard of buffet with two drop leaves. It is 42 1/2 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 30 1/2 inches tall with two 12 inch drop leaves. There is an open shelf and a drawer below that.
However if you pull out what appears to be the top drawer you discover that it converts into a massive table. Or at least converts into a table with the aid of six 15 inch leaves and some long table slides. In the largest configuration it can be as much as 122 inches long.
The table is unmarked, but it came with several Leg-O-Matic folding chairs with the same finish so I suspect it was made by the same folks.
The table is in fair condition, the biggest problem is that the folding leg which supports the middle is a bit wonky to use.
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April 26, 2012
Unusual hand painted round dining table with two leaves. This isn’t the sort of thing we give to families, so here it is in the store.
I have two questions: if He is omniscient why is there a pocket watch, and what happened to the pepper shaker?
This table is 42 inches in diameter/across and each leaf is 11 inches wide.
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April 25, 2012
Then maybe a vintage vanity is just what you need. Aside from my general loathing of the species* I think this is a pretty nice one that needs a good home.
So here it is.
It probably dates to the 1920′s and it is in good condition considering the usual state of vanities. They tend to show more wear than we see here due to accidental spills of perfumes, ointments and other concoctions that act act solvents and burns from mislaid cigarettes.
Personally I wonder how often in the past these two independently mildly annoying phenomena combined into a disastrous conflagration. Oddly enough the vanity that grandma lit on fire when her Chesterfield upset the bottle of Samurai perfume that she bought in New York at Lazell’s in 1922 tend not to be handed down as treasured heirlooms . . .
The vanity is 48 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 71 inches to the top of the mirror. There are a few flaws, notable some small rings that could possibly be covered with a scratch-cover product and two spots where the mirror is starting to lose its silver. Luckily they are both on the edges of the mirror (on the left side, one high and one low) so you won’t need to do your mascara around them.
*I feel I have to explain myself. Vanities are one of those things that everyone once had but few people really want now. It’s frustrating, as a fundraiser and retailer, to see great stuff that no one wants while people go buy [expletive] that will fall apart the next time they move (in the apartment, not even to a new place) for three times the price at a big box store.
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April 24, 2012
Short on kitchen space AND square footage? A small but useful vintage cabinet could be the answer. This one holds a surprising amount of stuff and there is a hidden compartment too, which is always handy.
The lower part is accessed by two doors, there is a small interior shelf and the inside of the doors are lined with pegboard so you can hang items off them. Above are four tilt-out metal bins for storing flour, sugar and other bulk items. Since these aren’t full depth the top slides forward* and you can access the ‘hidden’ breadbox compartment in the back.
Overall the cabinet is in fair to good condition. One of the doors was bent at some point and re-worked to almost as good as new. Most notably it could use a good sanding or bead blasting and a new coat of paint. The Formica top is in good shape and all the door/drawer pulls are still present.
The cabinet is 36 inches tall, 23 3/4 inches wide and 17 3/4 inches deep.
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*if you don’t want to tilt the bins out the top also slides backwards and you can get to the contents from above.
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