After buying the lovely table online at Michaan’s, I started visiting in person during their preview hours and, thanks to a friend, also discovered their “annex” auction, with items too scruffy or inexpensive to feature in their gallery auctions. I managed to snag a super-cute deco side table from the annex. It was in great condition and also round–important, as it was becoming the theme for the great room–but more on that in the next post.
Anyway, I also found a gorgeous Stein Model 700 couch/daybed. It needed a bit of love, but when Agent Smith’s father visited, he not only drove up to Alameda with me in Barbie to pick it up from the auction house, but spent a couple of days making it better, as portions of the the wooden base had split and separated. I then spent a couple hours with the tiny Bissel carpet cleaner and pulled a half-century of dust out from the fabric, and the end result is gorgeous. Best of all, it does indeed sleep one, as the tiny bottom handle you can see in the pic below allows the back rest to drop down.
Two other lovely bits of furniture that I picked up last fall from Michaan’s auctions are the side table and a simply gorgeous wooden rocking chair.
Both now reside in the sunken area of the great room, but you’ll have to wait a bit to see how they fit into the space, as there’s a much longer story behind the now-just-about finished space.