Thanks TRL
It is definitely a mindset thing. I actually value things more if I've rescued or 'resussetated' them - makes them more mine and more precious. The thought of saving valuable resources is an added bonus.

...and Gunther, think about it: this chair was thrown out of a pub in Houslow for being not suitable...ergo, it must have had some good points!! [it's a lovely chair, with Queen Anne style wings to keep you cosy in a draft; it has real brass castors and mahogany feet. Lovingly upholstered and with a new cushion it will last another 20 years at least.]

I spent half of Saturday morning out in the garden, stripping down on old upright chair - must be 1950s, possibly 1960s - while listening to Jonathan Ross on Radio 2 - ah me, I must be getting middle-aged.






Nice, isn't it.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:27, 1 reply)

I understand.
My favourite chair was rescued from a friends house after they had an overhaul of its contents. It had belonged to the grandmother of one of them, is probably older than I am, and is, in my reckoning, the best chair ever to have been... it even has a foot rest that springs up from beneath when you push the back back.

Everyone else hates it. I loves it.




and I seriously have acquired furniture from worse places than the outside of a pub in Hounslow... a street in Woolwich being one!
( Moey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:43, closed)