All the junk you are looking for from Retro to Rusty... all in one place... Click any picture to start shopping Old Balusters and spindles can be found at flea markets, antique stores, and even garage sales. great Trash to Treasure projects out there for these items. Their shapes are infinite, and the more chippy the paint the better, I hope you Enjoy this idea page. You'll need to be able to cut the spindles to various lengths for this project. After that it's pretty strait forward. Spindle Wire Christmas Tree Rosemary uses this old porch railing to accent her fireplace screen when not in use. This is a lamp project based on one of Ki's projects. It's basically 4 spindles, attached to scrap wood on top and below. Then It needs to be wired as a lamp. You can get lamp making information from my lamps page including a link to a youtube tutorial on lamp wiring. The angel on the left was made from an old Table Leg, the arms are old spindles.
The shape of the Table leg just lent itself to become an angel. I turned it upside down and the bottom of the leg became her head. the one on the right was made from an old spindle, I added iron brackets for the wings, and a round finial for her head. I used Copper wire for her halo and aura. Here's an out of the ordinary window valance. Made by gluing old chair spindles etc onto a piece of trim. I used another old table leg, cut in half, to embelish this cabinet These Old Table legs were cut in half and painted and then just hung on the wall Old Spindles were used by artist Mark Orr, to become legs for his one of a kind tables. click the picture to view his web site, with more great ideas and pieces to purchase. Thank you Mark for permission to link to your wonderful art. sewigardnut from The Garden Web, posted this idea for a plant hanger click here for more information I used spindles to accent the roof line. On the right is another I made using
Toots made these 2 angels from old spindles. "one to hold sayings and one to hold favorite xmas ornament....one with wire ribbon wings and one with scroll-saw wings" Various Candlesticks made from old Spindles. Tea Tray with cut spindles as legs Spindles embelish this picture frame I have similar items currently for sale, please go here for information Spindles turned into finialsUnique New Finds For Spring When you open and use a my pier 1 rewards cobalt credit card Pier 1 ♥sYou Month We're showing you the love all February.The page you requested cannot be found.American BeautyClassic furnishings from four generations of Pennsylvania woodworkersBeautiful Windsor Chairs for SaleDuckloe carries a full line of Windsor chairs, with a vast selection of styles and designs that are sure to please even the most particular Windsor chair afficionados. Hand crafted since 1859, a remarkable level of skill and care is put into every chair that we create.
A Winsdsor chair from Duckloe can add a touch of class to any room, with a comfort level and compactness of design that make them both user and decorator friendly.Custom built using time honored eighteenth century techniques, each of our Windsor chairs for sale is hand crafted, built with a level of craftsmanship that is reflected in their being commissioned for display by the Smithsonian Museum and also featured in many leading furniture publications. All of our Windsor chairs have their respective legs, spindle holes and arm posts drilled completely through their seats and arms, with glue placed in the holes, legs and posts. The spindles are secured in the holes, and these joinery techniques prevent looseness in the Windsor chair legs as the years go by. The superior tight fit is ensured by splitting the Windsor chair parts with a chisel and then a glue coated wooden wedge is driven down into the split. As a result the parts are widened within the bored holes, resulting in an extremely tight fit and lasting durability.
With 84 different styles of Windsor chairs for sale, Duckloe offers both a variety of selection and an unsurpassed level of quality. Contact us today and our staff will help you select the Windsor chairs that are perfect for you and your home or if you already know of your selections, you can simply order online at your convenience.I’ve been hankering for a change in the dining room lately. I’m going to paint the wood trim white (it’s on my 30 Before Thirty list), and I’d like to paint the ceiling too. The wallpaper is staying (I’m going to have to be very careful when painting the trim), and so is the rug. Now, while I do love my vintage dining set, I have been pining for new chairs. I like Eames shell chairs (especially with the dowel legs), but doesn’t everyone? And I already have two Eames chairs elsewhere in the house. I still have eight stackable plywood chairs in the basement, though we should probably just go ahead and sell them on Craigslist. And I could just change out the pink fabric on the chair seats for something else (faux-leather?).
Or there are always the cute oval back dining chairs that I’ve long admired. But do you know what I’m really into lately? Black spindle back chairs. Family Chairs (available as a mixed set of four, or individually), MOMA Thatcher Side Chair, Room & Board I can sell my current dining room set on Craigslist, and then use the money toward new furniture. I know the OLLE chairs are affordable, but the other chairs all have more graceful lines. OK, or I could just see how my vintage set (which I do not want to alter other than seat fabric) looks in the room once the trim has gone white.Annual Dining Sale From now until February 28, 2017, we're offering a 15% savings on all dining room furniture, including Dining Tables, Dining Seating, and Dining Sideboards/Cases.To purchase, visit any of our showrooms, call 800.862.1973, or click to select an item at the right and then click the "Add to Shopping Cart" button and use promotion code FEB17 at checkout. /sale for sale details.Sale pricing applies to new orders only, and cannot be combined with other promotional offers or discounts.
Sale price of 15% will be shown at checkout when using promotion code FEB17. Sale ends February 28, 2017. CLICK HERE for additional details.Since Tom Moser first introduced the Continuous Arm Chair some four decades ago, it has become our signature piece and has consistently remained on our Top 10 best seller list. Taking roughly two years to perfect, this classic chair embodies our enduring commitment to functionally driven quality objects, formal simplicity, the elimination of ornamentation and the celebration of traditional materials through craftsmanship. To form the arms eleven knife-cut slices of the same board just one-tenth of an inch thick, called flitch, are laminated together. Then each continuous arm is painstakingly rasped, filed and sanded to a perfect smoothness. Learn more about this iconic design below... The continuous arm chair is a Windsor chair, a design that originated in England in the 1700s for use as garden furniture. Some people think the name Windsor came from the castle of the same name.
One thing for certain, the original Windsor chairs were large, heavy (thus, hard to move around) but offered a good deal of comfort, which is the chief reason the style endured. In about 1750, Rhode Island cabinetmakers came up with the idea of making the arm and the back of the chair from a single piece of hickory or ash, two types of wood that lend themselves to being steam bent and curved. While undoubtedly beautiful and comfortable, the Continuous Arm Chair took tremendous skill and patience to make, because of the need to form a compound curve with right angle bends. In the early 1970s, Tom Moser set out to create a new generation of Continuous Arm Chair. It took him many years to perfect the design. He made the first prototypes for the back of the chair out of copper plumbing pipes, because they were easily bent and held their shape. Once he got the form just right, he created a wooden prototype and began experimenting with lamination and bending techniques. As Tom recalls, �Originally I used wedges, then I used a cams and straps to create the right pressure to form the bend.
It still wasn�t right, so I employed a stainless steel strap with a couple of arms that came off a logging truck and some ratchets. Finally, I graduated to using air pressure. The whole process took years, a little piece at a time.� By the late 1970s, the Thos. Moser Continuous Arm Chair was ready to make its debut. Judging from the reception the chair received from our customers, it was well worth the effort. The continuous arm in our signature chair is created using flitch-cut cherry. The process involves quartering and steaming sections of logs, then slicing them into tenth-inch thick strips. Because the strips are cut with a knife, not a saw, no saw dust is created and the strength of the board is preserved. Hence, when you glue the pieces back together, they are just as they grew in the tree. The beauty is that while it retains the appearance of a solid wood, the continuous arm is actually comprised of eleven different layers. It takes a tremendous amount of hand work to shape each continuous arm, because it�s shape is oval in at the top, becomes round, then U-shaped with a flat surface where it meets the arms.
Each arm is trimmed, then filed by hand using a course file called a horse rasp, then a finer rasp, and finished with a hand sander. Even the holes are drilled by eye. The Continuous Arm Chair also includes other refinements, such as a highlight (raised section) that runs around the back of the chair, where the spindles join the seat. The spindles extend all the way through the seat and are wedged top and bottom, making them not only aesthetically pleasing, but easily repaired, should the need ever arise. The spindles are so finely tuned, you can pluck them the way you would with a string on a harp and they should resonate at the same frequency. One more well considered detail of the Continuous Arm Chair are its legs. Most Windsor chairs have stretchers that connect the legs to one another. Often times, the stretchers get creaky and tend to loosen. In addition, they are dust collectors and prevent the sitter you from crossing their legs underneath. So, Tom Moser replaced the stretchers with a curved brace called a ship�s knee.