Old Furniture: To Throw it Away or Not?!

in We Are Alive Tribe3 years ago

My husband inherited this furniture from his parents. When they passed away, he wanted to throw it, or at best, sell it. I wasn't fond of any of those two solutions. In question weren't only those two armchairs that you can see on the photo below but, in fact, the whole living room in that old style.

Art Deco Armchairs before renovation

Tables, cabinets, and commodes were more or less OK, while the couches, chairs, and armchairs were pure disasters that were falling apart. There were some cheaper renovation options, but I was very skeptical about them. Proper restoration costs money that we didn't have at the time. In the end, my husband agreed to keep them for a while until we would make a final decision.

Years passed by, and this furniture was still on hold. A couple of times, my husband tried to convince me we should throw it away or at least sell it, but it still didn't feel like the right thing to do to me.

In the meantime, I did some research on my own, in the end, to bring some experts to tell us what we actually have there. It turned out it was furniture made in Art déco style by some well-known domestic craftsman at the beginning of the 20th century (approximately around 1930s).

Last spring, by some special "gymnastics" in our financial calculations, I finally came up with the "formula" according to which we would be able to do something with that furniture, so I started to search for the right craftsman for the job.

When I found it, at last, another obstacle occurred. The thing was that I wanted the restoration to be made the old school way, but I wanted to use more modern fabrics that would be stain-resistant and waterproof. My chosen craftsman was a bit skeptical about my ability to find suitable material.

The search lasted almost the whole month until I finally found an excellent German producer. When the fabrics arrived, my craftsman was still skeptical about my final choice of material but agreed to try their best with it.

Sometime in the middle of summer (about the end of July) our furniture was finished at last. When bringing it back to us, our restoration craftsman couldn't stop talking about how delighted he was with the picked fabric. He also told us how they tested it for different things to conclude by saying, "Now, this is going to last for at least another hundred years!"

And here it is, how they look now!

Art Deco Armchairs after renovation

When our children saw it (who, btw, were all the way through on my husband's side cheering for the furniture to be thrown away or sold, as I am allegedly just an old collector of old useless things) almost couldn't recognize it.

And when I told them that just one armchair is worth now in between $1,000 and $2,500 they were speechless.

Besides all of that, due to the color of the fabric and the whole restoration, the whole room suddenly appeared bigger and brighter.

Art Deco Armchair & Couch after renovation

What do you think? Was it a good decision or not? Would you throw away or sell your old furniture or try to renovate it?

For me, it was absolutely worthy, and one of those projects that definitively keep me alive! 😊

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I think it was a great decision you did a great job they look much more modern than before.
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Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Besides the better appearance, they are unbelievably comfortable now.

That is awesome my friend
They look great
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Wow! I love how the restoration was done. It looked like new furniture. I think old furniture are really more durable. They simply don't make them like they used to. You did a fantastic job of choosing to restore. It's a gem!

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Thank you very much, @iamraincrystal! I'm glad you like it! 😃
I would agree with you that today's quality of the furniture is not even close to some old pieces. It appears to me like it's made in a consumerism style of living (throw it and buy new), and not at all to last.

Even the painter that we hired to refresh the room and the whole apartment with new paint, told us he wouldn't move it to paint the walls behind (especially not the cabinets) if they were some newly bought IKEA type of furniture. When I asked him why he told us that one of his former customers had the whole wall of closets that completely fell apart when they moved them to paint the wall behind. As he was asked to compensate for the damage, what he did, he told us, it was the experience that thought him the lesson about that modern, good looking, but low-quality furniture.

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I think it's awesome that you've kept them. They are looking great now and I promise you if the furniture industry in your country is anything like ours, you've done the best thing.

They just don't make furniture to the same standards anymore. The old furniture was made to last which cannot say about the furniture of today!

More or less, it's the same here. Due respect to a couple of rare exceptions of domestic producers, while the rest mainly imported (like IKEA or similar), definitively, are not made to last.

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