Comments on: I Just Wanted A Chair With No Bottom http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/ Life in Ordinary Splendor Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kimmie http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-34340 kimmie Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:59:02 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-34340 I love your chairs...great buy...did you get a good deal? Kimmie mama to 6 one homemade and 5 adopted I love your chairs…great buy…did you get a good deal?

Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted

]]> By: Sharon http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-33232 Sharon Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:26:15 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-33232 I love your old chair also, but my heart is in preserving the never to return antiques, which will ruin out in the rain. A few years ago, I began trying to find and preserve those antique ladder back chairs. Before my time even, they were known as sitting chairs. They could be used at the dining table, then moved to the living room in the evening to accomodate the large families comfort, or when company came to visit. I have been able to acquire just a few of them, and have also rebottomed a few with a seagrass weave. When and if you should decide to preserve and use those old bottomless chairs, please let me know. I wish you would consider using them in a dry setting, rather than in the garden to be destroyed by the rain. My grandfather used to life with us, and he built chairs and baskets from white oak splits, such as your bottoms. The design in your bottom is called the twill weave pattern. When I was ill a few years ago, I also taught myself to make baskets, but I can't go the woods and cut the trees and make the splits as he did. Please just enjoy and appreciate the heritage of those OLD BOTTOMLESS CHAIRS. Keep up the good work. Sharon I love your old chair also, but my heart is in preserving the never to return antiques, which will ruin out in the rain. A few years ago, I began trying to find and preserve those antique ladder back chairs. Before my time even, they were known as sitting chairs. They could be used at the dining table, then moved to the living room in the evening to accomodate the large families comfort, or when company came to visit. I have been able to acquire just a few of them, and have also rebottomed a few with a seagrass weave. When and if you should decide to preserve and use those old bottomless chairs, please let me know. I wish you would consider using them in a dry setting, rather than in the garden to be destroyed by the rain. My grandfather used to life with us, and he built chairs and baskets from white oak splits, such as your bottoms. The design in your bottom is called the twill weave pattern. When I was ill a few years ago, I also taught myself to make baskets, but I can’t go the woods and cut the trees and make the splits as he did. Please just enjoy and appreciate the heritage of those OLD BOTTOMLESS CHAIRS. Keep up the good work.

Sharon

]]> By: Sandi http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-17380 Sandi Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:02:52 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-17380 Well.....duh! Some people just don't get it. Love the chairs.......the crappier the better!!! :fryingpan: I love your site! :flying: Well…..duh! Some people just don’t get it. Love the chairs…….the crappier the better!!! :fryingpan:
I love your site! :flying:

]]> By: Brandy http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13790 Brandy Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:06:07 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13790 Congratulations Desmond! The chairs look great for plant stands, are you going to keep them yellow? Have a good day! Congratulations Desmond!

The chairs look great for plant stands, are you going to keep them yellow?

Have a good day!

]]> By: Suzanne http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13789 Suzanne Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:34:15 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13789 Alice, yes, next spring when I have planters ready for them and put them on the porch, I'll definitely be posting pics!! Alice, yes, next spring when I have planters ready for them and put them on the porch, I’ll definitely be posting pics!!

]]> By: Suzanne http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13788 Suzanne Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:33:20 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13788 Becky, that garden sounds amazing!! It should be in a magazine. Those are some really good ideas, too. Thank you! :rockon: Becky, that garden sounds amazing!! It should be in a magazine. Those are some really good ideas, too. Thank you!
:rockon:

]]> By: Estella http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13786 Estella Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:38:20 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13786 The chairs are absolutely cool! The washtubs are great as planters. I have a tub full of pinks. The chairs are absolutely cool! The washtubs are great as planters. I have a tub full of pinks.

]]> By: Alice Audrey http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13785 Alice Audrey Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:31:06 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13785 Do we get to see them when you have them set up? Do we get to see them when you have them set up?

]]> By: Becky http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13784 Becky Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:53:58 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13784 Ooh, I love them! Shabby chic is the best. You can literally do anything with that look. I saw the cutest garden in Brooklyn. They took an old wrought-iron bed (a really pretty one!!!) and stuck it out in the garden. Then they planted different colored marigolds and other short flowers (cockscombs, batchelor buttons, etc...) in tight squares throughout the "bed" like a crazy quilt. Flower "bed," get it? But it was so cute in the setting. There were also some antique windows stuck into the ground on stakes (different kinds -- gothic, farmhouse, dutch...) to frame different views of the garden as you walked through. It was such a cool setting! And they had your chair planters. :) That's what made me think of it. :hellokitty: Ooh, I love them!

Shabby chic is the best. You can literally do anything with that look.

I saw the cutest garden in Brooklyn. They took an old wrought-iron bed (a really pretty one!!!) and stuck it out in the garden. Then they planted different colored marigolds and other short flowers (cockscombs, batchelor buttons, etc…) in tight squares throughout the “bed” like a crazy quilt. Flower “bed,” get it? But it was so cute in the setting. There were also some antique windows stuck into the ground on stakes (different kinds — gothic, farmhouse, dutch…) to frame different views of the garden as you walked through. It was such a cool setting!

And they had your chair planters. :) That’s what made me think of it.

:hellokitty:

]]> By: Suzanne http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13782 Suzanne Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:12:24 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/11/05/i-just-wanted-a-chair-with-no-bottom/#comment-13782 Too much, LOL! Except that I love them. :heart: Too much, LOL! Except that I love them. :heart:

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