All my adult life, I've wanted a Victorian Armchair on Casters, with turned-wood feets and a shocking, modern upholstery

You're weird 🤪

AIEEEE!!!

All my life, I've wanted purple drapes!

AIEEEE!!!

Amazing what good stuff can do.

[quote] Are you bitches happy for me ?

There's more of a chance of my finding a husband on Grindr than my being happy for you.

isn't it R3 ? Only now do I realize just how much I needed it.

Op, I am happy for you. Put your feet up and smile.

The feets are the best part.

OP, I get a page of images of various and sundry pieces of furniture, so I have no idea what has restored you so? Quite frankly for me, if I ever came into ownership of an original Herter Brothers chair, I think those things would most likely happen to me as well. Those boys did some incredible design work, but by and far their chairs blow any others out the water from any time period in their beauty, form and elegance. Each is like it’s own sculpture and masterpiece work of art.

[quote] Put your feet up and smile.

His turned-wood feets.

Thanks R6, I always thought it would be forever too expensive for me. I feel that I'm arrived. yes R7 , and in my case, the wheels are made of white ceramic...I cum a little typing this

Victorian shit is ugly 😠

Carolyn Burnham : "Uh, whose car is that out front?"

Lester Burnham : "Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!"

Well R8, it's an adorable easy chair with a low back and a large frame, it's incredibly comfy, has slighly curved , outward pointing wings, and dainty feets on white ceramic wheels. I've chosen a bold red and white checked gingham cotton upholstery, and I'm on cloud 9.

Those Herter Bros chairs are beautiful. Almost look ceremonial or Masonic. I would want a matching table and a large crystal ball. It all goes with the turbin/caftan ensemble, too.

I forgot, I'd want a Ouija board also.

Those Herter Bros chairs look like Joan Fontaine's chairs in SUSPICION

Refreshing to see antiques getting some love.

R14 Those were dining room chairs, but this library table from the same Rockefeller house fits the aesthetic you’re going for exactly.

[quote] Those Herter Bros chairs look like Joan Fontaine's chairs in SUSPICION

Or at least inferior replicas much like my sister in relation to me.

All my adult life, I've wanted to be... 🤩

Watch out Op, it could be an imprisoned warlock.

R8 those chairs are very cool

Victorian furniture and interiors are fantastic, but I would go for a traditional upholstery like these ones

If you're happy, OP....then I'm happy. 😂 I like the settees.

R22 I've watched the shit out of every HOUSE AND GARDEN vid, and traditional upholstery like these ones are NOT in fashion

thank you R23, I heart you

R18 here, sorry that table and the chairs are Vanderbilt, not Rockefeller, I was looking something else up at the same time, thinking the Worsham-Rockefeller house was done by the Herters, but it was the other Aesthetic firm Schastey and Co.

But can you fuck on it?

R27 No no no, think of the ceramic casters, I won't ruin 20 years of waiting for one minute of Monkeypox ecstasy

I love furniture on casters, it’s such a look.

Here’s a Herter Brothers chair with casters. Are they always on just the front?

I was watching old episodes of Antiques Roadshow and the expert literally started crying when he laid eyes on this one rare antique chair! I was blown away!

MARY!!

R31 Is it one that’s on the Roadshow TikTok page? Was it one of those blond twins, they get teary eyed over furniture all the time.

LINK FAIL, OP

I've always wanted a 210-220cm long sleigh bed. With an equally long mattress. Never bothered to get one custom made. I don have one extra long mattress on a simple frame. A half measure.

I DO have

Get an antique, r35. You could find a great British Colonial piece, and just have the slats adjusted

^ and side rails. I know there are excellent craftsmen who do this in Vermont and N Carolina, probably Charleston as well

Well you would need entirely new 210 or 220 structure. Replacing the original wood and metal. We are talking LENGTH, not the slats which are width.

I'm scared!

Casted.

R24 I actually dont care that traditional upholstery is NOT in fashion, in fact that is part of the attraction for me

I want one of these little metal stools, but with casters, so you slide them around, but when you sit on them, they stay put. These used to be everywhere, now you can't find them.

I love this whole set-up as is—brick wall included:

R43, like a doctor’s rolling stool?

I have a bed like that, I use it as a sofa, with lots of oversized cushions. It's amazing how well something that's been made 100 + years ago holds up. I bought it for a whopping $ 65 at a flee market BTW

that was for R44

R45 - well, yes, I guess so. Maybe I should look at a doctors' supply company catalog.

Not a doctors stool. They were found in drafting room, for example. They tended to be tall stools. When you sat on them, they sunk the final cm to the floor and were very stable. I remember them and haven't seen them in decades.