Chairs, Lamps, Cats.

This weekend my plan was to go to the PCC Flea Market but as is the norm when you make plans the fates laugh.

We had to take Bruce to the vet. I suspected he had a UTI. $200 later we're still not sure the cause just that it's not a UTI and he has crystals in his urine. Not the hippy, twirling, chakra kind; the expensive to medicate and diagnose kind. Bruce will be fine, he's on meds and hopefully this will never return.

So that put a wrench in my plan to troll the flea market on Sunday. Instead I trolled Craigslist, which is my favorite vegging out activity. I love my ipod for many reasons and the Craigslist app is just one of them.

Lately I've been on the hunt for the perfect hutch. In the fruitless search for that I found a really great chair. So naturally having just sold a lamp on CL I turned around and bought a chair. I already have too much of both (lamps and chairs) but this was a deal I couldn't pass up. I was able to get the chair for the same price I sold the lamp at and since it's less than a month until my birthday I was able to call it a birthday present.

I bought it from this really awesome lady in Silverlake named Molly. Her house was high up a winding hill and she was in the process of gutting it and rebuilding. You could tell the house was going to be gorgeous when she was done. It was a spanish-ranch style home probably from the late 30's. It had an amazing view and was set back from the road, nestled in the hills.

Here's the before and after:

 I don't think you can really tell from the pictures how much better the after looks. I cleaned it with a Magic Eraser, Barkeeper's Friend and some Method Spray Cleaner. It wasn't that dirty to being with but there was definitely a layer of grime on it and some spots of gunk. The Barkeeper's Friend really brought the whiteness of the chair back.

I'm not sure where it's going to live right now. It might be my sewing chair, maybe a dining chair, maybe a desk chair.