A Wedding Gift Arrived Today!

[electrolux137]

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One of our wedding gifts was a new sofa that we ordered back in May. After a couple of delays it finally arrived today.

It was kinda sad saying good-bye to our old sofa, as it nearly always is when replacing old things with new ones. We've had this sofa for a while and have really enjoyed it, but it was getting kinda tired looking and wasn't very comfortable any longer. So a new sofa was an ideal wedding gift.

Here are some photos of "out with the old, in with the new."

 

[electrolux137]

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<span data-offset-key="9qbfe-0-0"><span data-text="true">... And it's gone. Sometime this evening. We hope it went to a good home.</span></span>

 

[tolivac]

I hope the old couch went to a new caring home.Sort of sad seeing them getting crunched in the RL trash truck.The new couch is VERY nice-like the color.I don't have a couch-for me they take up too much space-want that for vacuums!!!

 

[electrolux137]

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I'm glad to report that the couch wasn't picked up by the City trash collectors. Whenever you have large/heavy throw-out stuff, y0u have to call ahead for a "bulky item pickup." I didn't call because I figured someone would come along and get the couch. I've occasionally done the same thing with things that neighbors had put out at the curb.


 


A while back, I saw that a neighbor had thrown out a small, square dining table. My scavenger nature overcoming me, I went over to take a look at it.

Disappointed, I saw that it was pretty scratched and scarred; there was a fairly large area of lightened moisture discoloration on the top; the legs were pretty beat up; and one of the legs had broken off of the table, ripping away the wooden piece that the leg was bolted to. Figuring that it was broken and not reparable was probably why the people threw it out, I walked away from it.

But I kept thinking about it during the day, that it was a nice size for our apartment and it really might not be too much work to spruce it up. When I got home later on, it was still there so I hauled it upstairs.

After an afternoon of rubbing the top with brown paste shoe polish and liquid wood wax, then buffing it several times with my big, heavy Electrolux polisher, it came out beautifully! I surely wish I had taken some "Before" photos. You wouldn't believe the difference! There is still some slight water discoloration and marring on the top, but as Arlee says, that's just "patina."

And luckily, wood glue put the broken leg right again. It was a very easy repair job.


 


The next day, I saw the neighbor who had thrown out the table and told her I had rescued it. I let her come up and take a look at it. You should have seen the expression of pure amazement on her face! She could hardly believe it was the same table.

 

[tolivac]

It is nice that discarded peices of furniture can find new homes-that table is nice-hard to beleive someone threw that out.Looks like its made from REAL WOOD and not plastic or particleboard!