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mart

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2018, 03:55:17 pm »
Excellent Kathy43,,  you have learned a bit here !!  Don`t worry like Ghopper said.. another  will come along !!   $1700.. is  a laughable amount !!  Look at your local Craigslist !!  You may find one you like there,, and within driving distance !!

nother one will come along, I guarantee it.  Maybe the next person will be living in 2018 as well, and will accept a realistic offer.

We can always hope Ghopper !!  Age, style ect,, does not always equal money !!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2018, 09:55:57 pm »
Thanks guys. I see things I like all the time, but very few times in life do I see something I can't live without. So, yes, there will be others.

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2018, 08:07:53 pm »
I see things I like too but I think,,,,what am I going to move out to move this one in !!  So I just pass !!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2018, 08:34:16 pm »
So sad that it isn't worth more.

I still love brown furniture and know that it will regain in value one day - hopefully in my lifetime. 

By the time the shabby chic, chalk paint, enamel spray paint phase goes thru the "fixer upper" phase on brown furniture - the brown furniture left on the market will increase in value.

I'm from the South - but please don't mistake my Southern Manners/Accent/Charm as a weakness!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2018, 05:46:10 am »
Just did a local CL search and here is at least as good an example listed, asking $475. after 17 days no takers, just sayin...

https://charlotte.craigslist.org/atq/d/1800s-dresser/6630447463.html


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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2018, 10:40:43 am »
KC, if there is any brown furniture left by the time the chalk painting fad is gone.

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2018, 02:23:57 pm »
KC, if there is any brown furniture left by the time the chalk painting fad is gone.

Pleeezzz DON'T SAY THAT!!!!! :o
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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2018, 04:09:27 pm »
Ghopper,, its just the old geezers like me that like it !!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2018, 05:17:03 pm »
Ghopper,, its just the old geezers like me that like it !!

and me!!
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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2018, 06:37:36 pm »
Ok,, so we are two old geezers who love pretty woods made into furniture !!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #25 on: July 17, 2018, 01:20:24 am »
Guess that makes 3 of us! 
I'm from the South - but please don't mistake my Southern Manners/Accent/Charm as a weakness!

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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2018, 05:27:07 am »
Ok,, so we are two old geezers who love pretty woods made into furniture !!

Is it so very wrong? ;)
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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2018, 09:57:43 am »
If they had to strip as much paint as I have in ugly colors,, they would re-think using that paint brush !!,, Unless it was originally painted at the factory,, is fairly modern,, and doesn`t require artwork !!
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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2018, 10:12:23 am »
If they had to strip as much paint as I have in ugly colors,, they would re-think using that paint brush !!,, Unless it was originally painted at the factory,, is fairly modern,, and doesn`t require artwork !!

Amen.
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Re: Eastlake dresser
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2018, 09:47:16 am »
I once had a late 1940’s vintage booklet, issued by the US Dept. of Ag, which detailed the method of modernizing your old furniture. It showed how you could remove the apron off your dining table, and then paint the whole thing gray followed by adding flower decals to the top.  In the bedroom, cut the legs off the dresser, cut the bed foot board down and coat everything with paint to create the new “Hollywood” effect. Sounds like a typical government funded program. ???