Need new hardware for a thrift store dresser...help!
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Comments (19)Good find! I agree with Lindac on the oven cleaner, plastic bag, set it outside in the sun. Do this over a day or two until you are able to get down to the bare metal which will be a slightly lighter gray color when you remove all the crusties and rust. I strongly advise you not to use vegetable oil. Crisco or other vegetable shortening or lard is better IMHO. Bake long, low and slow - about 325 for an hour or more. Let cool, wipe out any excess grease with a paper towel and repeat the process as many times as needed to seal the pores of the iron. Yes, the pot will become dark black, smooth, and somewhat shiny after the process. Teresa ~ in one of the MANY camps on the care and feeding of old cast iron! Ha!...See MoreNeed quick help choosing thrift store console!
Comments (15)I'm back--thanks for all the advice! I decided to skip the dresser (DH just didn't want to mess with something that wasn't well made to begin with) and only brought home the burl/chrome console. Tradewind, I didn't get a chance to read your posts until I got home, but you have me really excited now! This piece is really gorgeous in a room with decent lighting. Very, very heavy and solid. Really well made. Thanks for clueing me in on who the designer may be--if/when I deide to resell it that will be a huge help. I do agree with everyone that something with cabinets/doors would be preferable and I do intend to now take my time looking. The right thing will come along, I know it. But for now, I'm LOVING the look of this. The good thing is that television and console are on a wall that backs up to unfinished basement, so all the wires are fed behind the wall thus minimizing the ugly wire mess. Oh yeah, while I was picking up the console at Salvation, they had just put out a pair of similar vintage rust velvet swivel bucket chairs. These things don't look like they've ever been sat in. They were $20 each! They're going in the room as well, and I love the way they look with the console. I promise to post pics as soon as I can--I'm finishing up staining/painting the dresser that is headed to Boston tomorrow for DDs apartment--that's coming out great and I'll post pics of that as well. Again, thanks for all the advice and encouragement!...See MoreThrift Stores, Goodwill, Salvation Army etc
Comments (24)When I hear about taking truckloads of new stuff to the landfill ... I cry a bit. I live within a couple of miles of a "landfill" (double four-letter word for a "dump" - also a four-letter word, as you may notice). A couple of years ago the local owner of a "landfill" had its capacity licence increased from 9 million to 17 million tons ... and I figured at the time that I knew what'd be coming next, as the City of Toronto, 2.5 million or so, has been taking flack for years for shipping their garbage to a site near Detroit. A year or so ago Toronto bought this dump ... for $220 million. They've been shipping something like 140 semi-s a day over the border, and will soon ship them next door. The site is right beside the freeway from Toronto to Detroit, so I expect them to build a new exit ramp ... right into the dump! Could you spare a tear or two for my predicament? ole joyfilled (usually) P.S. Being frugal (having helped folks who'd left their former lives in just the clothes that they wore, get their lives back together in an area recently visited by war), I hate seeing useful things scrapped. And did so long before the recent furore over the expansion of the local dump. o j...See MoreThrift store plates
Comments (11)Our town used to have an arts & crafts co-op that also had a small lunch room, serving 'home cooked' type meals. Lunch only, of course, it was very popular with people that had jobs downtown, also became 'the place' to go to meet your friends for lunch, or maybe just dessert, whatever. Anyhow, when it first opened, the dinnerware, etc., was all donated by members of the co-op. Not new things, but dishes they no longer wanted or had use for at home, but were still in good condition, no chips or cracks. Everyone seemed to donate fairly complete place settings, but mostly only a few place settings from each donor, so there was a great variety of styles and patterns. It made some very attractive table settings! In fact, the look became quite popular, and we kept it for quite a number of years, even after we could afford to get 'real' restaurant ware. It was such a cozy, homey look. Sounds like an ideal answer for your informal log home! And all the fun of a real excuse to go to garage sales, thrift stores, resale shops, estate sales, etc. I agree with sunnyca, the field is wide open! Have fun, and I hope you will come back & show us pictures of some of he treasures you find! Rusty...See Moremadtown_2006_gw
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