Day 2074 Shorthouse

18th April 2023

There was excitement in the house, we had a buyer for the kitchen table, and they were due mid morning.

We dusted it off and set it up just outside the garage.

Right on time a red truck turned into the driveway and out stepped a couple. He was tall, and she wasn’t.

They both liked the colour of the table, but the lady noted that it seemed a bit low. We put a tape over it and it measured twenty eight inches, about two inches lower than it should.

This was a setback.

We then started talking about them getting us to refinish the table they already had, plus some chairs they were thinking about buying, so there was the potential to do work for them.

It was about then that Kelli remembered that the table had inserts in the bottom of the legs for castors, that would have taken it up to about thirty inches, so the mystery was solved, although it didn’t help us much with the sale.

In a last ditch attempt to snatch a victory out of defeat, I asked if we could add something to the end of the leg to increase the height, would they be interested? and to my astonishment they said they would, as they really liked the colour. So we grabbed a sale, and they paid in advance, now it’s down to me to come up with something suitable.

Kelli decided to change the handles on the small dresser, it hadn’t attracted much attention apart from a couple of no-shows, so she decided to replace the handles with wooded knobs. This meant filling the holes and repainting the fronts. Fortunately the weather was warm and everything dried quickly, but it was a lot of work.

We also finished the mid century style dresser.

We took new pictures of the small piece and the mid century one and Kelli posted them.