modern thrifter
I love beautiful things and thoughtful design. I also live in one of the most expensive cities in the country, and our family lives off a single income so that I can be at home with our kids. Patience and persistence have been the key to finding stylish things on a tight budget.
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![[ BRASILIA ]
As if Easter weekend wasn’t busy enough for our family, I decided to go ahead and buy, sand, and restore a vintage Danish table that I found at a consignment store. Saturday was a gorgeous day—one of the only ones we’ve had so far this spring—so I wanted to get a jump start on this project. The bonus is that it was on my summer to-do list, so now I’m ahead.
Now that I’ve go a new table, I need to sell our old set. It’s one that I picked up at a garage sale about three years ago, and I still really like it. It’s a mid century Broyhill Brasilia table with six chairs. The only problem is that even with two leaves inserted, it’s not big enough to seat as many people as we’d like.
After doing a little research online, it turns out that the Brasilia line is fairly sought after and the set is worth more than I thought. It needs a few touch-ups here and there in order to get the higher price, so that will be my project for this week. I’d really like to get it posted on Craigslist soon because having two tables in the dining room is driving me crazy.
Oh, and since I seem to feel the need to have extra projects to do, on Saturday I picked up a little mid century kid’s desk that I found for free on Craigslist. It needs about ten layers of yucky paint sanded off and some new drawer pulls, but the kids already love it. Every time I scoot it against the wall in the playroom, they drag it back out into the middle of the floor to play “teacher.”
Photo by Chris Diewald](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk8ynqag6W1qc7v1bo1_500.jpg)
[ BRASILIA ]
As if Easter weekend wasn’t busy enough for our family, I decided to go ahead and buy, sand, and restore a vintage Danish table that I found at a consignment store. Saturday was a gorgeous day—one of the only ones we’ve had so far this spring—so I wanted to get a jump start on this project. The bonus is that it was on my summer to-do list, so now I’m ahead.
Now that I’ve go a new table, I need to sell our old set. It’s one that I picked up at a garage sale about three years ago, and I still really like it. It’s a mid century Broyhill Brasilia table with six chairs. The only problem is that even with two leaves inserted, it’s not big enough to seat as many people as we’d like.
After doing a little research online, it turns out that the Brasilia line is fairly sought after and the set is worth more than I thought. It needs a few touch-ups here and there in order to get the higher price, so that will be my project for this week. I’d really like to get it posted on Craigslist soon because having two tables in the dining room is driving me crazy.
Oh, and since I seem to feel the need to have extra projects to do, on Saturday I picked up a little mid century kid’s desk that I found for free on Craigslist. It needs about ten layers of yucky paint sanded off and some new drawer pulls, but the kids already love it. Every time I scoot it against the wall in the playroom, they drag it back out into the middle of the floor to play “teacher.”
Photo by Chris Diewald
