There's a funky little second hand furniture shop that we drive past on the way home from school, full of great retro stuff. I'm not actually in the market for any furniture (except a comfortable new couch, ie one that we can actually sit on for any length of time, and for that we need Ikea) but a few weeks ago a dining setting caught my eye. No prizes for guessing why: it was purple of course. As we flashed by in the car I thought
ooh, purple chairs!! but I kept driving. The next day they were still there and seeing as purple chairs are a rarity I decided to check them out. Six purple swivel chairs, lushly padded with a round laminate table, $180 the lot. But being an idiot I told the guy I'd check with the other half, I didn't want them to be an impulse buy. Fixit, bless his heart, heard my spiel (about how my Grandmother's gold chairs, whilst lovely, were like planks of wood to sit on and I could keep them to use for if and when I ever get my own tap studio and how a round table might go really nicely in the family room and how the chairs, after all, were PURPLE) and agreed we
ought to get them. He and my Dad went there the next morning to get them. And they were gone.
Of course I should have put $20 on them at the time, but I'm a retro furniture novice. So I tried to tell myself It Was A Want Not A Need, but deep down I was very disappointed and I truly believed I would never see another set of purple chairs ever.
Until last week!!
Complete with a larger than the old one laminate table, for only $200 the set.
