Congrats on your great finds for your new home!! Great shopping!! I like both pieces a lot.

No way! You got Organic's sofa but didn't get to meet her?? Bummer.
Nice, nice, CL finds. When it's good, it's good.

Red

Oh my gosh, how lucky for you! Too bad you weren't feeling up to meeting OSH, maybe another opportunity will arise? I take it you're in a different CL list area now, or is it generally the same?

That chest looks like it would go well with your nightstands that I still secretly pine away for. (If you ever decide you want someone to take those off your hands...:D )

Wow, love that chair! Seems perfect for the era of your home. Dresser is great too!

I love it when people post their Craig's List finds. Being a bargain hunter myself, I get a vicarious high when someone else scores!

Love all three, but especially that dresser. That is my favorite style. Just Gorgeous!

Congratulations on your great finds. You're so right about the things people post on Craig's. I was so frustrated one time from looking at people's dirty, cluttered things, I finally posted a message telling people to clean their stuff before they posted a photo and that I and others weren't interested in their clutter or dirt!! I also told people to get their pets off the furniture before stanpping the camer, that not everyone loved animals and a lot were allergic or would be worried about fleas (I would) and wouldn't even consider buying a piece they see an animal sitting on. Unfortunately I could never post a photo on Craig's because there is always a cat on all my furniture pieces. HA!

Nice chair! We have almost the same one. I bought it at auction 18 years ago for $60 and our third child was born in it at home a few months later---not exactly planned [cough] but it turned out that it was a perfect birthing chair so it all worked out well.

I had to make new cushions (that was before the birth---we just put plastic over the seat for the delivery and the cushion was fine!) but I had the old ones to use as thickness guides. I think my seat cushion was nearly twice as thick as the one on your chair and the back was about one and a half times thicker, if that helps.

Unika Vaev has some gorgeous Arts & Crafts fabrics by Josef Hoffman, or at least in his style. They're pricey but the quality is excellent and you can find yardage on ebay from time to time at dirt cheap prices. Fortunately you won't need much for just two cushions.

p.s. Our chair is in storage since it doesn't really fit in with the MCM stuff we have now, and there's no room for it either. But we can't possibly get rid of it. Someday our son will have it in his house---that is, if he isn't an MCM person too. So far, that's what he thinks is cool. But he's only 17.

Congratulations on your great finds - love the dresser especially!

Beautiful finds! I'm especially drooling over that fab chair! I'm so sorry you didn't get to meet OSH ... as has been stated above, hopefully you'll get another opportunity to do so.

Enjoy your lovely new goodies!

Wow!! Looking good!

Excellent finds and prices -- and I really do understand the frustration of not having a truck available at the-drop-of-a-hat for these times! LOL! I keep hoping that our friend next door MIGHT be persuaded to get a pickup truck ..............I keep dropping hints! :)

Ladies, I just read on line that a young woman in MN had been murdered after answering an ad for a nanny position on craigslist. I would suggest if you answer an ad and make a purchase,you not go alone.

Congratulations, johnmari! I have been looking for a long time on our local CL too. I feel your past pain. Looks like you scored big time. That chair is too cool. I like the mission twist.

Scary about the murder. Yikes!

moonshadow, I found the dresser on the NH CL after going to look at about half a dozen overpriced pieces of junk, while the chair came from the Boston one which I don't watch as often unless someone's going to be going in that direction anyway. We're another 1/2 hour further away from Boston now so the PITA factor is higher.

spanky, now I am gonna think of that every time I look at my chair! ;-) ;-) ;-) The Austrians are a little bit aggressively-modern for me; DH has requested a paisley (seriously!) while I'd prefer a Morris-type print, but it pretty much depends on what I come across first that I like and can afford. I'm not up to making the cushions myself though. Gotta find a new sew-er, I can't get hold of the lady I used to use. (I found a seriously-over-the-top Raymond Waites fabric I quite liked for the couch, but don't have the spare cash to pick it up right now.)

patty_cakes, people who are going to kill someone are going to use any way possible to get victims, doing so via craigslist is just the newest version. People were telling women "don't go alone to answer newspaper ads" for jobs, stuff for sale, etc. when I was a teenager 20+ years ago. :-(

Yes, that murder happened here in MN. Not too far from where I live. It was front page in the newspapers and all over the news here. Very scary. Good advice, patty cakes.

Back to the post....johnmari...score!!!

Johnmari, about 2 months(maybe longer)ago, a young woman from the Orange County area answered an ad, and disappeared also~she still hasn't been found.

So if you think it's the 'newest version', why would you want to play with fire? There's nothing wrong with being somewhat skeptical of a stranger, and certainly not a thing wrong with being 'safe rather than sorry'.

I was always taught not to talk/take rides/candy or anything from a stranger. Some things never change, especially where safety is an issue.

Be careful!

I think johmari was saying that just like you wouldn't answer a newspaper ad alone, you shouldn't do that with craigslist. Its a different version of an advertisement, but the same "safety" rules apply. Where I live, a serial killer was finding woman to kill by placing ads for jobs in newspapers. Pretty sick.

Newspaper, craigslist, ebay, I always take someone else with me and meet in a public place. Now, for some furniture I did have to pick up, but made sure to take my husband with me.

I think we all agree...safety first.

Patty, great reminder. Also, people should not go into homes of strangers. If they have a piece of furniture let them bring it to the door so you can see it or bring it outside.

I have a few things I'd like to sell to raise money for my animal welfare organization, but am afraid to run the ad fearing who might show up. Not that they would be allowed in my house, but still it is frightening. It's a shame the way we have to fear everything these days. It's a horrible way to have to live.

johnmari, I really admire the chair you found. I know you were excited. As far as being careful when using craigslist, that a certainty. A few weeks ago, I found a Kubota garden tractor with a front end loader on the site. I showed it to my DH and then e-mailed asking questions about it. A person replied telling me he/she had a very special account with e-bay and wanted to complete the tranaction there. A link was provided, which I did not use. The person told me "she" was getting a divoce and the tractor was crated up three states away. When I pressed for more information, I was told little. Anyway, when I checked into it, e-bay doesn't even have the type of account she referred to. I should have known something was wrong because the price was so low. To make a long story short, I looked at another town bordering our state. Guess what--another Kubota tractor like the other one, but this time posed at a different place. I e-mailed this one, too, and got the same run-around, same e-bay story. I knew they were both scams, so I forwarded the info to e-bay.

On the other hand, last week I bought three 16-foot trailer loads of custom kitchen cabinets off craigslist. The cabinet maker was stuck with them when a builder went bankrupt. Talk about a bargain. We're going to build a new home, so I'll jus thave to work all these cabinets in. Though they are not the wood I would have chosen, I'll just paint them. Moral--craigslist can be friend or foe depending on who's on the other end of the computer.

Fantastic finds, Mari! I can SO sympathize with you about not having a truck...so many goodies I've passed up at garage sales etc...

It's so fun to see your new house coming together. Keep the pictures coming!
Amy

Yes, Patches is 100% correct about what I was saying, sorry I wasn't as clear as I could have been. I give away a lot of stuff on Freecycle - when I have a "taker", I put the item on the porch for them and keep the door locked. If it's raining I put it in one of those clear trash bags. Far large items I'll schedule it for when DH and maybe a friend (our best friends are now literally 2 minutes away) are here so THEY can move it out and the other people can just wait outside. If I put anything on Craigslist (or eBay for local pickup) I'll probably use the same routine, and send DH outside for the payment. It's not that I'm paranoid, it's that I don't trust anyone as far as I can throw them. ;-) Plus with the neuro stuff the CFS is kicking up lately, I wouldn't be too great at fighting someone off if they jumped me, although I think the trend lately is for scoping out houses for later robberies more than home invasions.

I was pleasantly surprised, though, at how comparatively little it cost to rent the cargo van from Enterprise - about $75 after all the taxes, with unlimited mileage. That's way less than even the smallest U-Haul (which we nickname U-Dragit because every time I've rented one the darn thing's broken down on the side of the road and needed towing to the nearest U-Haul branch!) would have been, since he put around 150 miles on it and they're soaking a buck a mile these days! I'm hoping, though, that when DH's car finally dies there'll be a compact pickup with really good gas mileage on the market, that would be a very practical replacement.