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Vintage Chromcraft Loveseat

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Hepcats Haven

Mel and I picked this up in Paradise, California last week. We had been thinking about it for a while and decided to go ahead and get it. We hope it will team well with our other Chromcraft pieces once they are done getting upholstered.

This piece is really clean considering its age.

Usually the upholstery on these pieces have cuts and tears and a few missing buttons.

This piece only needs a good deep cleaning to make the upholstery look like new.

We would like to see if we can find the matching armchairs.

We are really impressed how little work this needs.

Still has the makers tag!!

The legs need some tightening but appear to be in great shape.

We hope to be able to use it, but if for some reason we can’t fit it in, you will see it in our shop at Midway Antique Mall.

Amazing Mid Century Couch and Chair Set

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Hepcats Haven

Mel and I were driving home from a visit to our shop inside Midway Antique Mall. On the way home we glanced over on a side street and saw a mid century couch and chair set. We rapidly swung a U turn and drove back to the house that had them out front. We jumped out and could not believe how large the couch was. The colors were still vibrant on all the pieces and the upholstery had the really cool design, as you can see.

While we were drooling over them the owner came out and said they were his mothers. She was the original owner and they were purchased while her husband was in the Air Force stationed at Travis AFB. When he died she moved into a trailer park and had it with her till her passing. You could see they were triggers for his memories of her and the years they were with her.

Usually, when we place something in our shop, we like to stage it but the couch is so large we had to just place them in the room.

Unfortunately, there are only material tags on these pieces. We could not find a designers/makers name.

If you are in the market for an ultra cool living room set, you can check it this out in our showroom Midway Antique Mall.

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Here Are Some Quick Picks

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Hepcats Haven

These chairs belonged to the grandfather of the guy I purchased them from. He had them in his man cave. The upholstery job leaves something to be desired. I plan to remove the back rests (they are not original) and redo the seat bottoms in a different color. I tried to find info on the manufacturer but was unsuccessful.

I came across these on Craigslist and knew I wanted them. I love the style of the metal backrests.

There is a lot of surface rust, but a little sand paper and paint will fix that.

I need to figure out where to get new feet for a couple of the stools.

I have seen this style in a table and chair form, but this is the first time I have seen the style in barstool form! I think we will replace the stools that we are currently using with our…..

We purchased this bar a while back and love it. I think I may have blogged about it before, but cant find the post!

Here the bar is in its upright form

Here is the back of it. It has holders for glasses and bottles that lay down when the bar is folded into a coffee table!

Here is what the bar looks like when folded into a coffee table. Such a cool design by the ABCO company!

Here it is all the way folded down. This could slide under a bed for quick and easy storage. This is going under a covered patio of our next place for entertaining.

We picked this up for a quick $40 off of Craigslist as well. It needs some restoring but that will be easy. We have 2 of the pink and 1 brown versions of this lamp, so we thought aqua would be a nice contrast.

I picked this lamp up at one of our local haunts. The lampshade is one we had sitting around. This will go into our booth for resale.

These lamps are our friend Stephen’s. They require repair so we traded for the magazine holder below.

These lamps have damage around the switch but that shouldn’t be too hard to fix. The lampshades for these lamps are in fantastic shape. Stephen is going to throw them on eBay once the repairs are done. These have no maker listed.

Here is a nice jadite set that will be goin’ in the booth.

Thinking I would like to be more proactive in the repair of our radios. I picked up this working Conar model 224 tube tester for $15. In a later post I plan to recover this unit with new stag material.

It appears you can test radio and television tubes. I have never used one of these units, so I hope its self explanatory.

Here is a mauve frieze couch we recently picked up. It is in surprisingly great shape for its age.

I can imagine this in our home with a couple of Heywood Wakefield end tables on each side and a cool looking Carlo above it. We are torn if we will keep it or put it in our booth.