For the past two weeks our living room has consisted of an Adirondack chair, a Lane desk and a sewing machine so when we finally brought up a truck load of furniture our cottage started to feel more like a home than a construction site. We filled the Captains Quarters (the master bedroom) with an old Lane bedroom set that we originally had in our bedroom in Chicago. We brought up a rattan chair that we have had on our back porch forever and a neat wood table we found at our neighbors yard sale. We have scoured garage sales, antique malls and thrift stores in search of rustic and kitschy items to make our cottage cute and have found some real gems along the way.
I think one of my favorite items was actually free! We found this great record stand on the side of the road and it fits perfectly with my Mid Century Modern design ideas for the living room. We are housing our Westinghouse H71 on top with everything from Black Flag to Guy Lombardo in the cabinet.
On Saturday we went couch shopping and unfortunately left with no sign of real furniture. We did manage to spend a couple hundred bucks on cool wall hangings, artwork and nautical items. I did however see a couple beautiful Haywood Wakefield twin bed frames and some neat couches.
So here we are, almost a week later and still no living room furniture. We decided to go back to our local antique mall and what do you know, the Paul Frankl couch is still there! I really liked the couch, but my 6’4 husband wasn’t so thrilled with the low to the ground appearance so we passed it up. The couch was staged with a Haywood Wakefield side table and we found another one to mix n match with it from another vendor. We ended up picking up the set for about $225 and it included the original pillows. Even my non-tiki loving husband doesn’t mind the floral print on them.
Upon delivering our Frankl pretzel couch the antique dealer thought that our record cabinet was Haywood Wakefield. It really does look like something HW would create, but alas it is by some company named Universal. Either way I think it is working out perfectly housing our tv while we wait to find the perfect Haywood Wakefield buffet piece.
The leather and wood chair we found at a resale shop called 6 Degrees in Benton harbor it was $13 and was stamped Johnson Furniture Company. Upon researching the brand we found out that the company was based in Michigan and the chair was built during the time that Paul Frankl(yep same one!) was their lead designer. It was too cool of a chair to pass up and once we find some matching chairs for the livng room we will probably move this piece to the bedroom.
The nautical lamp is made of copper, has a the rope around the base was purchased for $4 at Goodwill.
Living Room Furniture – Check!
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