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The weekend I visited my parents for Father’s Day, my sister and nephews and I took a let’s-get-out-of-the-house sashay down to downtown Saltillo (I will NOT admit to accidentally leaving my brother’s giant diesel truck’s emergency brake on during the entire trip, and wondering why accelerating was such a pain in the ass), which included a trip into the Saltillo Landing Cafe\/Grocery as well as a peek inside the Robertson family’s antiques store, which I had not been in before. Last time I went into the building, it was a gameroom-slash-knickknacks store being run by Clifton, an enterprising young man I had graduated high school with. I’m told he has run off to California \u2014 smart boy \u2014 and now his parents run the space and keep it stocked with some actually freaking awesome wares for reasonable prices<\/a> (check out that link for a glimpse of an amazing baby blue vintage fridge; also just out of the frame is a $125 functional? floor radio from EONS AGO). My sister, always the one in our family to sniff out a deal, asked if we could sneak into the back room and see what wasn’t yet on the showroom floor. We’re sweet-talkin’ Southern gals, so naturally we got our way. And lo and behold, we stumbled upon that dresser (which I will henceforth refer to as a sideboard) above, as well as this chest of drawers<\/a>. They were marked down from $40 apiece to $25. That’s right, math-heads, $50 for the set. I cleaned up the joy piss that ran down my leg an after some obligatory DO-I-REALLY-NEED-THIS-HOW-WILL-I-GET-IT-HOME hemming and hawing, I was leaving my number with the fill-in clerk (the proprietor’s mother-in-law, adorably) and a few days later I got the call that I could indeed have the pieces. <\/p>\n

My brother delivered them to the house Saturday on the honor system; I haven’t paid a dime for these beauties yet, and the seller even sent along a can of paint for touch-ups, as she had planned to paint the pieces before selling them. While they could use some work \u2014 there are cigarette burns and some water damage and they both smell musty \u2014 I just kind of adore the color that they are, even if it clashes with my wall. There’s something sunbursty about that color, the way it darkens at the edges. And don’t even get me started on the hardware. <\/p>\n

I originally had it in my head after the first viewing that I had some art deco on my hands but I don’t think that’s the case. I’m terrible at identifying furniture and architecture styles, and the internet has been surprisingly unhelpful in my sleuthing efforts. If you can look at this and tell me the style (other than mid-century modern, which is my closest guess, which probably means it’s anything but), I’d be mighty grateful. I feel like I really lucked out here, and I want to reiterate that it was my sister who pushed me to go for it. She could taste the bargain victory whereas I was merely smelling whiffs of it (I have never been good at thrifting, and I will never be a Dave<\/a> or Amy<\/a> and I mostly accept that). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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