Does anyone have any idea about the style of this chair?
It appears to be oak. It was repaired long ago with metal rods under the arms and under the seat. As a result, it is very sturdy. It was painted at some point. We love it. That's Frederick hamming it up as well.
Here's a close-up of the arm
And a close-up of the chair back:
We continue to strip this kitchen-cabinet-to-be that may not be original to this house but has been here a long, long time. It is solid maple and must weigh in excess of 500 pounds. It has four colors of paint, with at least six coats altogether. Two of those coats are my mom’s from the early 1980s who never considered stripping it. She didn’t think it could get moved out of the room and even once claimed that she thought it was built in the room. (It is pretty massive at 7 feet high.)
When my parents moved here in 1982 a cabinet was left by the previous owners. We assumed that it was in the house when they purchased it as well. It is seven feet tall, five feet wide and very heavy. We have speculated about whether it is original to the house and survived the unfortunate people in which the house’s fixtures and furnishings were a community free-for-all. The cabinet is certainly heavy enough that it may not have been attractive for the taking. It is also located in the room that had probably been used as the kitchen cold room, so it is possible it just sat there all these years.
June 4, 2005
My mom and I worked outside with Frederick for most of the day, focusing our efforts on the area between the big house and little house. There were three mismatched chairs that had over-wintered in the courtyard and were in need of a plan. Two in particular would go very well with the arts and crafts look we are creating inside. I moved the chairs to the shed so that we can attend to them this summer. I also pulled the five ladder back chairs out of the tank house and set them out for summer work. They are in very good condition considering they had spent some years in the tank house, most of those years the tank house had no roof to speak of. We will need to have them reglued in a place or two but for the most part, we can clean them and paint them. Of the five chairs, we are missing three pieces that sit on the top of the chairs. I am wondering if we can get some made or get some replacements (and perhaps replace them on all of the chairs). All of the chairs also need to be caned, a technique my mom has promised to teach me for naptime projects.
June 1, 2005
Today I had a busy day picking up surveys at one of my school sites, getting a tooth filled in Bakersfield, and then hitting the antique stores after a cup of coffee at Borders with my father. (I had to drink the coffee out of the little stirrer straw because my mouth was so numb on one side.)
I visited some of my favorite antique stores in Bakersfield and found two new stores I had not visited before. I had my eye on a patchwork leather chair in one store. It has wide armrests and a book or magazine rack built in below the arms. It reminds me of a chair in my Grandma and Grandpa’s house years ago except that this chair was covered in a patchwork of leather whereas my Grandma and Grandpa’s chair was covered in a red nogahide.
