{"id":1307,"date":"2011-07-17T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salvagesisters.co.uk\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2011-07-17T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T17:47:50","slug":"a-mismatch-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"A mismatch made in heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing we salvage sisters love, its a good old chair. There has been no shortage of recent posts on chairs (lucy<\/a>, gemma<\/a>), but why stop there…especially when i have another chair project up my sleeve, together with a need for some joinery advice for those so inclined. I bought this for a few quid from Drum Farm Antiques, fast becoming one of my favourite edinburgh salvage venues. It obviously needs the dowel replaced, and a lick of paint, but the basic structure is sturdy enough.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0My vision is for a fine and varied collection of cunningly sourced (ie cutting out the middle-design-man) mid-century, personally restored chairs for our kitchen table. In a perfect world, that would include a selection of these beauties.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1. Wishbone chair by Hans Wegner<\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/a>2. Bentwood bistro chair<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>3. Industrial stacking chairs\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Vintage Ercol<\/p>\n

There are a few different approaches to mismatching dining table chairs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1. Different colours to accentuate variety<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2. Keeping a theme on colour and mixing up the styles<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>3. A wide variety of styles (era, texture, shape…)<\/p>\n

The best thing about mix and match chairs is that you can constantly replace and re-arrange as you gradually build up your collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing we salvage sisters love, its a good old chair. There has been no shortage of recent posts on chairs (lucy, gemma), but why stop there…especially when i have another chair project up my sleeve, together with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}