I had little stroke of good luck yesterday afternoon. I was walking home from a meeting with a favorite client at Oly Studio, where we were both admiring these amazing doors.
Note to future self: you want doors like these! So cool.
Anyway, on the way home I popped into Housing Works thrift and saw a BRAND NEW (still on the leg stabilizers!) Bungalow 5 Harlow coffee table in all it’s lacquered charcoal gray glory. Price tag? $50.
I bought the table as fast as possible (don’t you do that at thrift stores when you find something good? also I practically threw my body across the table when I caught someone else giving it a side glance :)
There is a little knick on the edge of one side, but I think I can patch it without a problem. You know what was a HUGE problem though? I paid for the thing and as I was walking it out the door I realized
A) No wonder this coffee table retails for about $1k, it is really well built and it weighs a LOT more than you’d think, and
B) It was 4:30 pm, aka the witching hour when all the city is cabless while the taxi drivers switch shifts. NOOooooooooo.
So lucky me got to awkwardly waddle all the way home with a deceivingly heavy, but oh so pretty coffee table, soon to be united this summer with the stripey settee in my new big office. I decided I could skip the gym last night since my feet and arms were tingly/shaky for hours after the fact! So worth it.
Great find! I do the exact same thing at the thrift store, every time.
Great score!! *So* worth the pain and suffering! Maria
Wow – what an awesome score! Totally worth the effort to get it home!
I found a Jacqui at a junk shop (and I mean a JUNK shop) in High Point last month. It's been way beat up, but I'm going to have my lacquer shop respray for me (cost for full sand and spray–$100!) and replace the hardware with Anthro agate knobs. What a great find!
wow that is all kinds of awesome! and from what I can see in the reflection of the table, your shoes are pretty awesome, too!!
Off topic, but I love your sandals (reflected in the tabletop)! Where are they from?
you are funny! love the visual of you walking home with a coffee table through new york. hahahaha
Wow, what a find. Im so excited for you! Just when I think I don't want to go in another thrift store, I see what people have scored and reconsider. That is a beautiful table.
Have a great weekend.
Nancy
Powellbrowerhome.com
I'd of done the same thing. Your new office already sounds pretty fancy. Looking forward to that! Great score!
funny story :)
A few months ago I found a vintage version (exact lines but longer) of this table in a junk shop. I thought I might turn it into a bench for the end of my bed. It was on it's side behind all kinds of other furniture and junk. The woman said if I wanted to figure out how to get it out I could have it for $12. I figured it out. The things we do for a good deal.
Thrift store finds are always the best. My mom found an upright piano at one of ours and bought it near instantly. We had to rent a moving van to get it home. When it came time to take it out, I was the one inside holding the straps to keep it steady as we took it out, but the dang thing was dragging me out because it was so heavy!
Thrift stores make memories. Glad you found yourself a lovely treasure. You made it look fantastic. =D
It's beautiful… lucky you!
Only in NYC would you find a 1K table at a thrift store!
What a great find! I'm the same way…I once smacked another woman's hand out of the way when she was trying to read the tag on a huge vintage wicker trunk with leather straps, haha!
I bow down!!! Jenny the furniture gods are obviously in your favor !! :)
FAB FIND!!!!
so exciting great find!
A fabulous find – hope the weekend is lucky too!
What?! That's a crazy great deal. How exciting! I was absolutely sure that no such deals existed in Seattle until my thrift store finds late week – a vintage 6-drawer campaign dresser ($35) and a Frederick Cooper brass pharmacy floor lamp ($13). I may have thrown myself across them . . .
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Ahhhh to live in New York! That would never ever happen in Seattle. And your shoes are super cute!
What a score!!! I love Housing Works – found my Madeline Weinrib rug there for for $40!! The one in Brooklyn Heights, no less :)
hmmm, am i the only one sooo impressed that after all that you do, you also find time for gym?
Lucky duck! I just bought that table for a client in white with the hefty price tag. The client dinged it in a comical tragedy of clumsy errors the first week, and my furniture guy was able to patch the lacquer. The cost was less than $30 for the patch – you may want to go that route because patching lacquer is really tricky…
I can't believe nobody offered to help you carry that thing! Shame, shame on whoever walked on by!
It is a gorgeous, gorgeous table…mind blowing for $50!!
Oh, I'm smiling about your plight. I have been there so many times. The things I've done in the name of a great furniture find.
I laughed when someone said only in NYC would you find a thousand $ table in a thrift store. You would in LA but the thrift store would be charging $1300 for it. LOL. They are SO greedy here. I find stuff all the time prices for more than you could get the same thing new in a retail store.
What a find! You never cease to amaze us with your unearthed treasures. Looking forward to seeing the table and your stripey loveseat paired in the future!
You are wonder woman! I have no idea how you did that!
$50 + some sweat and hopefully no long-term muscle damage. you certainly earned this one!
so worth it, its the NY sidewalk workout, great find
Oh, you lucky bargain-hunter you! The table will be worth your troubles. Those doors are awesome!
Wow, what a find!!!!!
Haha wow what an incredible find! I love that feeling so much! And the little feet on it are so cute. :) Happy weekend!
amberly
http://ambsgoodlife.blogspot.com
I just want to jump through the screen and hug you and tell you to take care of your young self. You remind me of me (back when I was a young spry thing) hoisting heavy tables, carrying them blocks home….and now if I had to do it all over, I would be a bit smarter. The old body does take wear and tear.
Take care of your pretty self. No table is worth damaging a muscle, a tendon…well maybe that table was. Just take it easy Jenny.
pve
Great score, and I can't believe you hauled that beauty all the way home by your little self. I've tried some similar moving feats but nothing quite that daunting. Where there's a will, there's a way, right? Congrats on your find!
awesome find! i hope the good luck has carried you through this weekend. definitely a great way to start it off!
I am delighted at you for finding this and your earned it by carrying it all the way home. Bravo
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Helen xx
Oh my goodness! How far was your walk home? I had to walk home several blocks back in college with an antique side table that I could NOT do without. Still have that table – it was worth all the weird looks I got walking that mile home!
I did that once with a glass-topped coffee table from Housing Works. I was sure I was going to fall and ram a shard of glass through my heart.
Your sandals are super cute! Where did you find them?
The table is great but I was distracted by the reflection of your shoes. Mind telling me where you picked up that perfect pair of strappy lovliness?
Amazing find!!!