Stoney, Higginsville is 35 miles east of KC on I-70 and Hwy 13. Not to far from you.

That's pretty cool. I'd buy it, if I were there. However, I am not short on cabinets/cupboards. They just happen to be my favorite thing, and I think at last count, I have 15 of them. I have two like this one. The picture was made in the junk shop where I bought them and I couldn't get back far enough to take a picture of the whole thing. You can hardly see the bottom through the ship wheel. I would use them in the kitchen, instead of building cabinets, and just build an island for a work surface.

Anyway, haven't heard anything on the house. Jody is going to call on Monday. The guy who owns the company hadn't been able to get ahold of the sister of the guy who is in prison. Jody has also called her a couple of times with no luck. If need be, we will find out where she lives and go to Louisiana and try to find her and talk to her in person.

Jody will be home until Monday and has been taking care of a lot of things...had to go to the dentist, getting our taxes ready, and I wrecked my truck and that has to go to the body shop.

Not giving up on the house tho. Just no news yet. Thanks for asking.

That does look like it'd go with Marilyn's new house.

I went to one of those auctions a couple years ago - I couldn't believe the prices things went for. Too many bidders get caught up in the moment. They could have got the same things on eBay for a lot less.

I have a hard time finding old cupboards, like the one above, that are in good condition. When I go to the flea market, I see a lot of them, but on closer examination, they are often new or cobbled together. Or badly painted and in poor condition.

However, one of my favorite ones, my husband found sitting out in someone's trash. It needs a new glass in the door, but it is way cool with lots of stacked/crown molding and original hardware on the door. I'd take a picture of it, but it is in the Rust Palace...which is what I call the storage building because I have so much old iron stuff in there, and I can't get close enough to it to take a picture.

Another one I have, I went to an estate auction in Galveston years ago. There was so much cool stuff in that house...but out in the garage was a couple cupboards. One, hanging on the wall, that had an old window for a door. The other one was huge....and extra wide and deep....and very heavy. The owner had stored paint and all kinds of stuff in them.

I waited all day to bid on them and passed up a lot of nice things that I would have liked to have. When they finally came up...I got the hanging one for about $35, and I was pleased. But the big one....a dealer was there to buy it and she was determined. I had waited on it all day so I wasn't going to let it go. She kept uping the bids by $50 trying to scare me away. I just stayed with her, and I don't remember how much it cost...maybe $600. She left...mad. I left...happy.

I didnt realize you have so many of them, Marilyn. I bet your house will be marvelous (thinking positively, here) when you have them placed throughout.

LOL! at your auction story! Obviously that dealer had no clue who she was coming up against. I love it!

Well, I waited all day to get it, and I wasn't going to go home without it. I figure having the cupboards will not only go well in the old house, but also we won't to have to have any built, because, as you know, cabinetry is very expensive.

I have them in every size from a child's cupboard, two medical
cabinets that are metal with glass doors on up to the big one that I posted the picture of.

I am always looking for junk. I cut through a neighborhood a year or so ago, and saw a huge antique bookcase out by the curb. I asked if they were throwing it away...they said yes. The guy helped me load it into my little truck, and it was sticking out with the tailgate down.

I got home, and no one to unload it because Jody was away at school or some place, and I started to slide it out. It was so heavy, I was about to drop it...trying to pull it towards me. I tried to balance it on my upper chest to get a better hold on it, and when I did, it cracked my ribs. Oh, man, it hurt. I had to step out from under it and let it fall to the ground. Didn't hurt it at all tho. And when Jody came home, we got a dolly under it and got it in the house. He said it weighs about 300 lb. A lot of my stuff is like that...things I find thrown out...need work.
But,it's very, very cool, has reeded columns on it and will be very nice when I have a place to put it.