Retro CoMO

Vintage Chest of Drawers.  Good price and the shape is really cool.

$60 (location isn’t specified).

Here’s the link: Vintage Chest of Drawers.

Heywood-Wakefield.  The seller says there are four pieces for the price, but does not list what pieces there are or what the price is for each.  They are also in rough shape.  But the price doesn’t seem unreasonable for four pieces and the seller is willing to negotiate.

$750 in Harrisburg, Missouri (about twenty miles northwest of Columbia).  Here’s the link: Heywood Wakefield.

Anchor-Hocking Vintage Kitchenware.  There’s something about the brown pyrex color of these that screams 1970s to me.  And I love it!

$5 in someplace near Boonville or Fayette (I’m guessing).  Here’s the link: Anchor Hocking.

White Star Gas Range.  Yellow and looks pretty cool!  I like the doors on the side.  Are they storage?

$250 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage yellow gas stove.

Desk and Chair.  1950s vintage chair and desk.  Looks like it has a nice small footprint.  I love the details like the hairpin legs and handles on the desk, and what looks like a mottled gray color to the vinyl on the chair.  Cute!

$50 in Jeff City.  Here’s the link: Retro desk and chair.

It might be bitterly cold through Saturday, but temperatures on Sunday should rise to a balmy high in the mid-20s.  What should you do with such a warm weekend day?  You should drive to St. Louis and pick up your new gold sofa!

Gold Sofa.  Okay, so $800.  But it’s gold.  And you have always wanted a gold sofa.

$800 in St. Louis.  Here’s the link: Retro Sofa.

Storage Unit/End Table.  They suggest that it could be used as a TV stand, but that would depend on the size and age of your current TV, I think.  Make sure it can support it, especially if you have other equipment too.  But it’s cute and I like the detail.

$50 in the Warrenton/O’Fallon/Wentzville area.  Here’s the link: 1950s Vintage Wood TV Stand.

Matching Loveseats.  Kidney shaped in orange velour.  What are you waiting for?  Honestly, these look pretty comfortable.  I’m not sure I understand the best way to arrange them, but it looks like the other piece is a corner piece.  The price seems high, but if the fabric is in good shape, it might be worth it.  It costs a lot to get a couch reupholstered (and I speak from experience).

$300 in O’Fallon.  Here’s the link: Mid century modern love seats.

Dresser.  This looks smaller in the picture than I think it is in real life (the seller lists the height at 42″) and I love the detail despite the fact that the veneer is a little beat-up.

$125 in Fenton.  Here’s the link: Retro Dresser.

Sofa Set.  I love this type of set- it’s so cute.  The seller has repaired some of the cat scratch damage.

$200 in St. Louis City.  Here’s the link: Mid-Century Long and Low Sofa and Loveseat Set.

Danish Modern Sofa.  I love this, too.  The upholstery is in nice shape and I like that striped blue color that is typical of this era.  Nice.

$225 in Illinois (suburbs, I assume).  Here’s the link: Retro Danish Sofa.

Here’s a roundup of items from the last few days on Columbia Craigslist!

Vintage Blond Dresser.  Not in great shape, and it looks like the handles are replacements (but they’re from Anthropologie, so they’re bound to be as cute as they look).

$45 in SW Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage dresser/chest of drawers.

Set of Black Bentwood Chairs.  I like bentwood designs and this one is a little unusual.  The paint looks a bit uneven, but that can be fixed.  I like the caning too.

$15 each ($60 for the set- don’t break them up!) in SW Columbia.  Here’s the link: Black bentwood chairs.

School Desk.  I like the lines!  Am I crazy, or does it have really cool lines?  I can’t see the base, but it looks like it would go well in a mid-century modern house, especially one with a child.  Or not!  Maybe you need a desk like this for your own art projects.

$20 in Holts Summit.  Here’s the link: Old desk/chalkboard.

End Table.  One sad, lonely end table all by itself.  I like the lines and the handle.  It would be a happier end table with a new coat of paint or at least some Restor-A-Finish.  But you can’t beat the price, especially if you’re already in Jeff city.  It would work in either a bedroom or a living room, too.

$5 in Jefferson City.  Here’s the link: End Table.

Typewriter Table.  I bought one of these for my office a few months ago, and it is perfect for my wireless printer with extra space to store a stock of paper on the side.  I like its vintage industrial style and also its very small footprint.  And if you ever need a tiny table for your laptop, that’s what this was made for.

$15 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Small Metal Table.

Last week was slow for anything interesting, but there were lots of new additions over the weekend!  Here are some of them from the Columbia Craigslist:

Bedroom Set (minus a bed frame).  I’m really impressed with this set- it looks like it is in nice condition.  The wood is beautiful.  It has the two pieces above (highboy and lowboy dressers) plus two nightstands.  I don’t like the handles (I can personally vouch for replacements from Rejuvenation instead) and the seller says that the hinges need to be replaced (probably on that top piece with the mirror or something).  It’s probably worth the price and you would pay more anywhere else.

$400 in Midway.  Here’s the link: Dresser w/Mirror, Chest of Drawers, etc.

Chest of Drawers.  Blonde wood.  Looks like a handle is missing, but I feel like we’ve seen a lowboy dresser companion piece to this recently elsewhere.

$20 in north Columbia.  Here’s the link: Chest of Drawers.

Wicker Fan Chair.  Nice!  You should buy this and that Thonet Bentwood chair that I posted about the other week (they’re still trying to sell it).  I love this seventies kitsch.

$20 in Tipton, which is southwest of Boonville.  Here’s the link: Wicker Chair.

Vintage Toaster Oven.  Seller says a knob is missing but it is in otherwise excellent condition.  The price seems high for something with a missing knob, though.

$45 in southwest Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage Toaster Oven.

Kitchen Table & Chairs.  More 70s!  Hexagon table, people!  Wicker!  Insane.  Comes with six chairs.

$50 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Kitchen Dining Table and Chair.

Lamp.  Definitely looks retro and pretty weird.  Retro floor lamps can be difficult to find, especially for this cheap.  Pretty entertaining!  This plus the fan chair or that bentwood chair, and love it.

$7.50 in Millersburg.  Here’s the link: Floor lamps.

It’s been a very slow week on Craigslist.  Lots of furniture has been posted, but hardly any of it has been of the style that I love and want to showcase.

I did miss this earlier in the week.

Dresser and nightstand.  It’s been painted and the paint is pretty worn, so it probably needs some love.  But check out those tapered legs and the sleek retro handles!  It would be worth repainting or even refinishing this piece.

$50 in Ashland.

Here’s the link: Dresser and Nightstand– Retro.

I’m going out of town tomorrow, so I will be putting up St. Louis & Kansas City posts later today.

Danish modern highboy dresser available in Columbia for $45.

Looks like nice clean lines and tapered legs.  It’s available at Hardt’s Used Furniture, a store on Business Loop 70 in Columbia.  It is unusual to see Danish modern at any of the area used furniture stores- they mostly deal with 80s and 90s country and rustic style, and a little bit of shabby chic.

Anyway, bonus!  The fact that it’s available at a storefront means that you can take a look at its condition before you buy it, and you can stop by anytime during business hours.

Here’s the link: Chest.

I posted this earlier, but the post disappeared into the ether.  Weird!

But here it is, a dresser in Holts Summit for $15.  And it looks mighty interesting to me!

Those handles look rather art deco, though I could be wrong.  And it looks like it has clean lines.  But it also looks like it’s in rough shape.  And it’s not a very good photo, so it’s hard to know what’s for real and what’s just a trick of the flash.

But $15!  I use a similar lowboy dresser to hold my television in the living room.  It has tons of storage space, and it can hold a heavy tube television with other electronics and a lamp.  Media cabinets often have very ugly styling, so it’s important to be creative when you’re trying to find the right solution for your television next to your mid-century furniture.

I replaced the hardware on mine (which is a 1960s style piece) with hardware from Rejuvenation.  (The Saturn knob with the star backplate, and they look so great!  Someday I’ll post some pictures.)

Holts Summit is between Fulton and Jefferson City, about 40 minutes from Columbia.

Here’s the link: Long dresser.