A couple weekends ago,
we went to antique shops
up in Fowlerville,
with Bob & Peg...
and we found this amazing cow milking stool.
It was heavily coated in shellac,
and white paint spatters.
Terry has been sanding it forever.
More on that later...
Hmm.... what's all this?
They are the parts to this chair...
There are two of them,
a rocker and a stationery chair.
They're called "hotel chairs" by collectors
of these heavy-duty, last-forever gems.
I acquired these chairs from my mom,
who acquired them from her mom and dad.
This is a picture of the chairs
sitting on their porch on Burt Road
in Detroit, in the fifties.
The chairs have been painted many times,
in many colors...
and Terry has taken on the loving mission of restoring them.
He's been out in the garage for days.
He goes out there after work and sands, and scrapes, and
I don't even want to know...
He tells me they are almost ready for primer.
Can't wait to pick out a paint color for them.
Meanwhile...
Back to the milking stool.
We picked out a stain that was close to the original,
and a couple of coats of poly...
and there it is.
Love it, love it, love it.
It sits in our upstairs 1/2 bathroom,
which is exactly where I pictured it
when I found it at the antique shop.
Petey came by today for some peanuts
and he let me get a couple feet away to get this pic.
He's sooo cute.
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