We needed to drop some stuff off at D.I. this afternoon, so we figured we'd wander around the store to see if there was anything we just couldn't live without. Thrift stores are just awesome like that - you can go in with something specific in mind, or not looking for anything in particular, and you'll almost always come away with treasure of some sort! I picked up a towel to make some big cover-the-whole-front bibs for Thomas, and some lace to use for random sewing projects (nothing in mind yet, but I'm sure it will come in handy). Jeff got a couple little picture frames to display pics of the kids at work.
We wandered around the furniture section. I've been reading lots of decorating magazines, courtesy my mom. She has a whole shelf full of them and I love to flip through them! She even let me take some home with me last week. Anyway, it's got me all excited about redoing furniture - painting, reupholstering, making accent pillows, stuff like that. I just wanted to wander around and gleam ideas for things I would or wouldn't be willing to redo. And as we wandered, I saw it.
Sitting there between the rusty garden bench and the falling-apart table, there it was. It stared at me, begging to be brought home and loved. I couldn't resist, I just couldn't.
Isn't it beautiful? A sturdy, hardwood rocking chair. I have always loved wooden rocking chairs - there's something so timeless about them. Lazy boys and ottomans are well and good, and usually quite comfortable, but a good solid wooden rocker is just so beautiful. I think I've wanted one for a long time, so to find one at D.I. in this great condition was unexpected and wonderful!
It's unfinished, which means it's a blank canvas to be painted and prettied up. It will go in the baby's room when we move into the house. I'll make a cushion for the seat, and paint a little design on the top. At $40, it was a bit of a splurge for us - the second highest price we've ever spent on furniture the whole time we've been married (the highest price was the crib, used, at $50). But I can see this chair being a treasured piece of our household for years to come. And I looked up wooden rocking chairs online to check pricing - a comparable unfinished chair of almost this exact design would be about $150 on sale, plus shipping and having to assemble it yourself. So this really is a pretty good deal.
And now we get to be extra careful about our spending for the next while, because this was a bit of a large unplanned purchase....
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I dare say that this was not so unexpected...I mean, really...didn't you just say you saved a bundle on your house? Just consider that you only saved 13,960 now. :)
There. Justified.
Congrats on the great find! You will treasure it for years!!
Love the rocking chair! You're right, this is something that will be in your house for a long time. And you needed something to sit in and rock the baby at 3am anyway....
Cute crocheted hats and blanket, by the way!
Cute rocker! Our rocker died shortly after Lizzie was born, so I would love to find something like that. Gotta get out and look at the thrift shops!
I have a rocker almost identical to this one that we bought when we had Emily. I loved, loved, loved it. Now it's not in her room anymore, but I'm not ready to part with it yet....too many memories in it!
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