Do you have that special piece(s) of furniture?

I have a table I picked up at a furniture store when married, we had bought a new bed and matching furniture. This table is made of intertwined metal holders supporting a small canoe, made from native wood covered with leather, even has miniature paddles. Thick glass top. Of course, my narcissistic "other half", "hated" it, she openly said so around friends and family.

She grew up in a poor family, that couldn't afford "trinkets, nick nacks", whatever you call them. So anything I found that I liked, was just yuck. Her friends enjoyed this. Openly...

Her close thread of friends openly hated on everything I had/liked/did. I hope they're enjoying themselves now. I sure am!
 
I have an old rocking chair that belonged to a friend of my mothers in the 1970ā€™s. Afton had had polio, and walked using a cane and leg braces. As a kid I would go to her house several times a season to clean up the mulberry leavesā€¦her little silky terrier drug them into the house and Afton could not keep them picked up. When she died my mother inherited the rocker. After my mother passed it became mine. I would love to pass it onā€¦but what makes it extra special is itā€™s story. Without the story it is an old wooden rocker.
 
Mom bought this in the 1960s when we were still in the house in which I grew up. I think that furniture store went OOB a long time ago, I have memories of all the knickknacks on the shelves, many I kept out of sentimentality. After mom passed, I was cleaning it out and found a whole set of crystal drinkware in the bottom. That was a tough sell and I probably didn't get anywhere a fair market value for it, but then, I was anxious to clear things out. It's in my new house (the photo was taken at the old house)

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My parents started housekeeping in 1951 and this was a bureau in their bedroom. Google Lens shows other similar ones calling them mid-century modern blond oak. Sadly the smaller night stand next to it (you can just see it on the left) was lost in the cellar flood last August (this photo was taken at my old house). I managed to save this since I could get to it and move it to a dryer area, but the smaller stand has so many things piled in front of it, by the time my cleanup crew could get to it, it was damaged beyond repair. They pulled out the drawers and saved those, but the outside is gone. There was also a matching dresser with mirror, but my mom sold that after dad passed.

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I have a rustic chair that was made by an inmate in a Florida prison (no relation ... that I know of)
He fashioned it out of tree branches and wove the back and seat in the 1930's/40's.
I use it as a bedside table on that side of the bed.

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My mother converted a "pie safe" that belonged to my grandmother by removing the screened in front and replacing it with glass doors, making it into a hutch to store special glassware. By doing that, the piece probably lost it's value as an antique, but it's still meaningful to me since it belonged to my grandmother, and restored by my mother.

I would not have chosen the fabric she used at the bottom (yellowish gold with the 2 fabric X X's) I could change that part easily enough, but that was her choice, so I've left it the same.

I was unable to get a picture without glare from the lights in the room; sorry.


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@Naturally I love your furniture story but I love you dog morešŸ„°šŸ„°

@PeppermintPatty your recliner reminds me of the Lazy Boy mom gave me back in the 80ā€™s and I kept until five or so years ago. Like yours, everyone loved that chair.

I still have the stuffed rocker my dad and stepmom gave me when I was 17. The wood is cherry and the handles are carved geese - I think geese. I had it recovered 30 or so years ago, but it needs recovered again. I told my younger brother that he has to take it home with him, when the time comes to clean my house out as my step mom was his mom.
 
Another 1970s auction purchase by my parents. It's a Bassett 3-drawer dresser. When I moved I tried to sell it, but the only person that responded to my ads offered me $20. I felt it was worth at least 10 times that.The mirror is in surprisingly good condition. I learned later that old "brown" furniture is not in vogue now and probably why there was little interest and the low-ball offer.

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