Wicker Furniture
Found On: Bay Area
“The rocking chair and settee are very very old.”
Very, very old. Like, Civil War old. In fact, I’m pretty sure this furniture fought in the Civil War. I don’t know where that hole could have come from other than the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jessica as-is Add new tag, broken, furniture, useless, wrecked
There comes a time, in all our lives, when our furniture must be laid to rest. It’s a sad time and a time when there is much grieving and crying. Cover yourself with sackcloth and ashes and do the decent thing… let your dead furniture rest in peace. Because keeping the corpses of dead furniture or trying to give it away is just creepy.
Gettysburg? I’d have said Waterloo.
Where the hole came from: Grandma was sitting in that chair on the front porch when she died. It was several months before anyone realized that she wasn’t just taking a “long nap”. By then, she had sufficiently decomposed so that they had to cut her out of the chair. If you want the rest of that chair, you’re going to have to dig Grandma up.
If it really was antique, it would probably be in better shape. By old, they probably mean last year’s junk from the department store that sat outside all winter. They don’t make wicker like they used to.
Aw, c’mon, Gulf War I, earliest. Wicker furniture is just about disposable. Breaks if you look at it hard, not repairable, sealant means it gives off toxic fumes in a bonfire. Just because it was the only stuff they could afford when they had their first place after moving out of mom’s, they think someone else is gonna want it? Sheesh.
They can be repaired. There are people who do re-weaving, usually on more expensive (and actual older) wicker.
Oh boy, can’t wait to bring this home in my 2-door sedan, set it on the set of steps I guess I can call a porch, take a load off on it, and feel the germs from years past and God knows what kind of summertime activity enacted by strangers make me sick as a dog and invade the rest of my home.
On second thought, maybe it’d be more fun to give it a Viking’s funeral.
You sure this stuff wasn’t once on a front porch which was the scene of a driveby?
I was thinking porch furniture for a bunch of cats.
What kind of cats- lions? I mean, look at the hole in the chair!
I need a set just like it, but in green.
This looks like it’s gone from wicker to wickee to just downright wicked.
I would be too embarrassed to put those chairs in front of my house, take a picture, and post it online.
If I had anything like that somewhere in my house I’d plant it on a neighbors yard with a sign saying “Free.”
That stuff is just crapola….they actually put it out for trash pick-up and thought ‘what the hell’…..let’s see if we can get any suckers to buy this here crapola!
That can be buffed out.