My neighborhood must be filled with crazy people. Why else would they toss out gorgeous stuff like this? It's a Queen Anne-style chair:
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It has all the right stuff. Ball-and-claw feet:
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Pretty shell detail:
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Pierced-work splat. Seriously, that's what it's called. A splat:
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Speaking of
"splat," the seat is upholstered in a traditional damask, and then covered in heavy-duty plastic.
Splat-proof!
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Here's why somebody thought the chair needed to be tossed out next to a dumpster in the alley. The back of the splat has split. Yup, that's a split splat:
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(Hee hee! Sorry; I couldn't help that.)
The underside reveals that this isn't a super-high-quality chair. If it were, there would probably be a different system of fastening the various wood parts together, and the entire underside would be covered up with a thin, black fabric upholsterers use to keep out dust and dirt:
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Also, a well-made chair would have small metal buttons on the underside of each foot. For some reason, the former owner added these overly large slides with sticky backings:
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But all that (including my battered cuticles) doesn't matter. After tearing off those gunky slides, putting on proper sliding buttons, and repairing the splat, I'm going to grab a little bit of cute fabric and paint the wood a fun, kicky color, like one of these:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsSlVjSMeAt52PEogojtaJEGZeYiAAdf4ydtq2cLFdztxHtGkyr-Fxn6Ty0ZjA_-cI1l84LE6xl-njaHEMmeIzJhlV1dUaeGnDTu8z092fQh_2mCVivC67ociQGjGIZyRtsaLm8onITc/s400/colorful-chairs-rushartist_thumb.jpg)
Thanks for the dining-room chair, Crazy People!
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Won Ton: "Did somebody mention
dining?"
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