This antique chair is a bargain!!!

[NigellasGuest]

Apparently it needs restoration but you could have fooled me! only £300!!

nice chair here don't all rush

Think that includes refurbishment doesn't it ?

If not then that's a bit steep - mind you have you seen the prices of Ercol daybeds on eBay.

or 'industrial' steel stuff? Just acid strip it and charge a fortune!

Can't stop laughing. Hilarious.

shabby chic taken to a new level .......

perhaps it should be marketed as Miss Havisham's Chair

Ah but for about 2-300 you could have it professionally re sprung and upholstered in hair and covered in a vintage silk and it would be worth about 1300-1500.

ok noddy put your money where your mouth is!

So why don't they do that then rather than sell it unrestored??

Alternatively you could just buy a new copy of an Eames chair for £489 and save yourself the bother.

Antique furniture has fallen in a price a lot bcause high quality modern furniture is now so much more available at lower prices.

I have a house full of bloody furniture no need! Some people esp in the states will pay. I used to work doing this when ds was little and in 1998 we were working on those figures so its a bargain! I stopped restoring chairs and started on houses much more £

voila

I love antique furniture which is why I happened upon this ebay chair in the first place. Surely you can buy done up stuff for less than that though, noddy? I'm particularly partial to bergere style chairs/sofas!

Though when it says said chair is "used", I did wonder used by what? A pack of antique-collecting hyenas?

It really depends. We had a lot of uber rich clients who only wanted completely traditional methods and certain fabrics.I live bergere did a fair bit of caning and nearly made my eyes pack up

love not live!

ANtique furniture is enjoying a bit of a resurgence atm though which is strange considering the economy but we had people who would literally pay anything to have a particular upholsterer do their piece.

I'm trying to use some antique (but not ££££) furniture inside my new-ish house. It's a challenge. Any tips Noddy? (pretty please )

OMG my dad is an upholsterer - think I might ask him to train me...

What sort of things? I always use old pieces in modern for sharp contrast iygwim. Really plain walls and floors with old chests and chairs. Also like old pieces recovered in modern prints

cece look at this site. I've been meaning to get round to having a go as we have some old chairs that need doing and I thought it might be a "nice little project" (ha. ha.)

Having a rethink in the light of what Noddy has said - perhaps I will flog them in the US of A for mega $$$$$$

how to restore a chair

noddy I have plain walls and floors so that's a start.
Furniture is kind of random unfortunately - sort of whatever we could afford at the time
I tend to focus more on colour than a style IYSWIM. (was an easier starting point with limited funds). So, big sitting room is mainly mid to pale blues & greens/aquas/goldy colours/ and with 2 large sofas from furniture village facing eachother (neutral, plain and boring style) with large oak reclaimed coffee table in between. Lampshade is a disaster - I don't like anything except things that are slightly candleabra-ish without being too bling. But that style could look awful, so I'm stuck with a silly coolie style thing (which is fine but doesn't look right in this situation).

A single piece in an otherwise modern room can be like a piece of art. More than that and it looks like an attempt at adding character with 'old stuff' which never works. Also individual pieces also look good in halls/landings etc kind of stand alone like a painting would.

noddy