Mrs._d wrote:Above is a well worn Easlake style table. Jon recently cleaned it up and re-glued it. I've just discovered though, one leg is shorter than the others and needs a little felt pad to even it out. Aren't antiques fun? They have their own little problems--just like human beings--just like me and my unreliable knee.
Are you sure it's the table and not the floor?
I have a coat tree of my grandparents' with four feet. Whenever I move (to another old apartment or house), I have to just swivel it around in the place I want to put it until it sits without wobbling. I don't know what it would do if I put it on a flat surface. I'll probably never find out!
I dig your REAL sleigh bed (the kind with flat panels between curved end pieces are frauds!) and the trim on the bureau. No, make that everything about the bureau, including the story.
MKD
The Thaddeus W. Bayless House
Built between July 1863 and January 1865, major add/reno between 1890 and 1902
Style = Mutt
We haven't moved into our house yet because we're not quite done (are you ever in an old house??) but here are two before and after pictures that I don have available to post:
My son's room before
After
The room itself was painted yellow, light purple, dark purple and blue and also had wallpaper. decals and a painted floor. Someone broke in when it was closed up and abandoned so that's the splash of white paint you see on the wall in the 1st picture. It was all over the floor too and it was so thick that even though it had happened 6 years ago, the paint underneath the surface was STILL WET!
~If you look closely you can hear the souls of those who came before you
Owning an old home requires good stewardship, so that we can not only honor the original
craftsman who labored to build a home of enduring quality, but allow the next generations the opportunity to live in history.
, but Scout's honor, you're just wasting your time here.
