Some more gems on the sun porch

debodun said:
Second day cleaning the sun porch. It was so warm and muggy today, I didn't get very far. There was probably dust in there from when my dad was alive! I don't know what wood the chairs out there are made from, but they are HEAVY! I could barely move one - I don't know how I am going to move the couch...

Also, a lot of crud behind the radiator I don't know how I can get to it. That old radiator is only an inch from the wall and an inch from the floor. It looks similar to the one in this stock photo:
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Any ideas how to clean behind this????
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An old broom handle sheathed in a cleaning towel I would think would work as well.
 

Hooray! Success! With a combination of a yardstick and mechanical grabbers I managed to work things to near the side of the radiator where could grab them and wiggle them out. Mostly clothespins, a few pens & pencils, a wooden spool of thread, a package of white shoelaces, some kind of weird scissors, and two vintage Avon bottles. Also recovered buttons and countless pins and needles embedded in the rug.
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Aunt Bea said:
IMO it would be a shame to use such a pleasant room for storage.

If I lived there I would make it my headquarters.
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Maybe if you replaced the carpet. It has seen better days. Cat stains all over. I tried yesterday to squirt some odor neutralizer on them. I think it made it worse. I didn't notice the odor until I started vacuuming.
 
debodun said:
Maybe if you replaced the carpet. It has seen better days. Cat stains all over. I tried yesterday to squirt some odor neutralizer on them. I think it made it worse. I didn't notice the odor until I started vacuuming.
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IMO it would be worth the elbow grease involved to give everything a good scrubbing and polishing.

If the floor is concrete you could take up the carpet paint the floor and use an area rug or remnant to warm things up.

I think that a heated room with all of those windows would make a great place for you and your plants to hang out year-round.
 
My mom bought that sun porch suite of furniture from the people that had the house before us. It cost $300 in 1975, that would be over $1400 in today's money. I don'y know what kind of wood it is, but it's HEAVY. All I could do to lift a chair. Dragging the couch to clean behined it was a monumental effort.
 
debodun said:
My mom bought that sun porch suite of furniture from the people that had the house before us. It cost $300 in 1975, that would be over $1400 in today's money. I don'y know what kind of wood it is, but it's HEAVY. All I could do to lift a chair. Dragging the couch to clean behined it was a monumental effort.
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You just don't see furniture like that anymore. So gorgeous! Just my style!
 
I think it is oak also. Maybe just some lemon oil rubbed into the wood would bring it back to life and also leave a nice scent. To bad about the rug. You did a great job cleaning out. Do you really need all the holiday decorations? I got rid of a lot of mine and just put out a few items that had great sentimental value. So nice not to have all that post holiday clean up.
 
Holiday decorations are one of the most difficult things to sell. In the summer when garage sales are happening, people aren't thinking about Christmas. After early September, people stop going to sales. One woman I talked with at the senior club last year about them said she wouldn't buy decorations at a garage sale. I asked why not. She replied that if she needed any, she would buy them new and not somebody else's castoffs. I though vintage decorations would be very collectible. Two years ago I thought I'd have a "JUST XMAS" sale. I advertised all over the place, sat there all day, and not one person stopped.
 
Deb,

I would bundle up the Christmas ornaments and sell them for any small offer that comes along on the condition that they take everything.

Maybe the garage sale people next door or across the street would be interested if the price is right.

Some Christmas items are collectible but the amount of work involved to photograph and list each one on a site like Etsy or eBay is often more work than it is worth.

The bright clean sun porch would be more valuable to me than the boxes of old Christmas decorations.

Good luck!

“Stack them high, sell them cheap” - Jack Cohen founder of Tesco
 
That is interesting , the info and the link, Deb.
Making so many things from molds, became very common, for sure.
 
I can't remember, Deb.
Were many/most of these interesting items, owned by your parents before buying the house, and additionally collected by your own parents,
OR, did they come with the house, when they bought it?
 
She must have enjoyed doing it, very much.
Do you have memories of going along with her, when you were young, to look at items?

She had lots of wall spaces, in that house, that she could decorate.
 

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