As I revealed in last week’s She Cave project reveal, the only time that I buy things from my estate sales is when they don’t sell. This vintage glider was a popular set at a sale I had in Los Altos Hills earlier this year but at the end of the sale is was unsold. I think buyers struggled with the same thing that I did, how will find new cushions to fit it? I suggested that buyers made a pattern based on the existing cushions but they were so crusty I don’t think anyone wanted to bother taking them home.
Do you see what I mean? Crusty! In fact the whole set was pretty crusty! Can you believe the deer hide in the picture sold at the sale but the glider set didn’t? It’s crazy to see what sells and what doesn’t.
At the end of the sale my husband Chris actually talked me into buying the set. He really liked the chairs that matched it and promised to help me fix it up. I think he secretly likes helping me with my DIY projects, ha! We started by bringing the set home and cleaning it up. It was pretty rusty so we used a hard bristle brush (just like we did on our picnic table from last summer) to scrub it and get all of the rust and dirt flakes off.
