[1QuirkyKiwi]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

i love your butchelor pad Honey and at least you have the love seat and we've managed to get some snuggling in there...you've been here and know i too am without couch.

When i moved last summer i donated my nearly new recliner sofa to the Knight of Columbus (the chapter my Dad belongs to provides housing for single mothers and always needs furniture) because Dad was going to give me the couch he & Mom had (stepmother doesn't like it). Alas it has yet to find its way to my apartment...so i've got a pair of rather large chairs. Not much good for cuddling but better than sitting on the floor...

Nearly everything in my apartment is either "hand me down" or "hand me sideways"...or as i call it the "early relative" look...LOL

I have a thing for 'hand me downs/sideways', especially when they are going to get thrown out and there's nothing wrong with them, other than a little loving TLC and restoration. A neighbour was throwing out a hand made wooden round table that separates into a long oval one. The varnish has dulled over time and there was one fairly long scratch on one side. I said I'd have it and offered her money; she gave it to me for nothing.

My cousin sanded it down, French polished the scratch and revarnished it. It looks like new! My neighbour wished she'd known my cousin could do that before she spent £600 on a new dining table and chairs that wasn't solid wood like the handmade one.

She gave me her old solid wooden Coffee table a few months later, which was restored by my cousin.