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Hand-me-down furniture is nice. A hand-me-down Viko swivel chair is even better. My grandmother bought this chair around 1964. While moving recently, my great aunt found it and passed it along to us, knowing how great it would be in our house. Thanks, Sis! It's the perfect addition to the office!
The side table was also from my grandmother's house. This table proves that my wife is much more forward-thinking than I am. I didn't immediately see its potential, but as it sits in our house, I must admit that I really like how it fits. Once we replace the old contact paper on top, it will really be a great piece.
We also found this footstool in the garage that was going to be sold. Turns out my dad made it in high school shop class in the 60's. It does seem to have some MCM characteristics. I guess there must be some Danish genes in our line somewhere.
It's always tempting to spend a lot of time and money on furniture. But by waiting for things to come to us, we've been very lucky in finding some furniture that not only fits our house and style well, but also has an interesting back-story.
-- Zach --
5.12.2010
it's new to us...
Labels: avriel shull, furniture, home, mid-century modern, retro-renovation, thornhurst, viko
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Very nice! Love the footstool. Love old stuff that has a story as opposed to new stuff that looks old.
Gotta tell you more about the foot stool. You have no idea how close we came to losing it. While sorting through all the stuff at the house for the sale I came across that stool buried in the basement under a bunch of stuff covered in cobwebs. Since I was going to sell anything I could get my hands on, I pulled it out, gave it a good brushing, stuck $5 on it and set it aside to sell. I described it to your father and asked numerous times if it had any history and he kept saying no, it wasn't anything that sounded familiar to him. Meanwhile I had been using a footstool in the house that had been made by your uncle Ron and I had planned to keep it if he didn't want it as I needed one in the den at home. The 2nd day of the sale I found out that Ron was keeping his stool. When I opened up for the sale the 2nd morning I looked at the $5 footstool and thought, hey, that's really a sturdy piece of work. A little elbow grease and I could use it in the den at home. So I put it in the "this pile not for sale" spot in the garage. Then guess what happened next? Zach & Courtney came to town and Dad was showing them some of the stuff left from the sale, the footstool was spied and Dad says "I made that footstool". So off it went to it's new home and happiness abounds! It's so amazing how things turn out sometimes. By the way, I still don't have a footstool in the den, but I can live with that! 8-) It warms my heart that you appreciate the sentimental value. Love ya,Mom.
Hi Courtney!
I've been lurking around your blog lately...perusing your posts with a most envious heart...for your sweet baby and your mcm house baby! my hubs and i are on the hunt for a place-maybe a fraction as cool as yours...we are moving there from South carolina in exactly 1 month. i thought it couldn't hurt to reach out to you in case you had any leads on any neighbors who are considering selling!? i'd be ever so grateful!!
Best to you and yours! I'd love to meet you guys one day! xo katie
katierunnels@yahoo.com
Hi Katie!
Thanks for the kind words about our baby & our blog! We enjoy both tremendously.
I'm also not sure whether you are looking to live specifically in Thornhurst, in Carmel, or just the Indy area.
First of all, there are rarely homes for sale in our neighborhood. We wrote letters to the original owners of our house & worked with them directly to buy our house in 2008. Word of mouth is often the method by which homes here are sold.
Secondly, there are a ton of MCM's in Carmel & the whole Indy area. Surprising I know! A great realtor who specializes in modern is Joe Shoemaker. His website is http://www.macduffrealty.com/.
Finally, we got to know Joe & about a million other MCM aficionados through Atomic Indy (www.atomicindy.com). Our comrad in modern is BAZ. He organizes a monthly get together where people like us open our homes to strangers who come and tell us all the things they like and all the things they would do better if only, this house was theirs.
It's sort of a strange amalgamation of people, but it's fun to be nosy and meet up with our friends. So if I were you, I would immediately contact both Joe & Baz and get on board.
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