Meet our newest project… velvet chair
21 Jun
So we went to Ikea tonight. We were going to buy our kitchen but as with all these things, it took longer to put it all together on the system than we thought it would. So by the time we were finished, Ikea was closing.
We left empty-handed. But we didn’t come home empty-handed.
We were driving through the streets of Edinburgh, dodging the tourists who aimlessly wander out into the road at this time of year, when we clocked two people putting this velvet chair into the street.
The guy must have seen our expressions as he shouted to us “Would you guys like it?”
15 minutes later and the chair was sitting in our living room – already a firm favourite with our owl-fox-cat.
We think he makes a good brother to our Cowboy Parker Knoll…
And all because we took a fruitless trip to Ikea!
Serendipity or what?
Happy longest day of the year everyone xx
How fortunate! May I say, what a lovely pair they make
What an amazing find. In which streets of the burgh was this occurrence I may have to start frequenting them in hope of similar fab finds x
I also love how you do your books in colour order, its my favourite way of sorting too! x
Oh me oh my!
Lovely & perfect colour! Unfortunately, I think the only things that get left on the street near our house are discarded parts of stolen bicycles…!
What a great chair! And what a relief that the cat likes it.
Eeee, it’s lovely! Serendipity indeed! What a lovely chair, bet they didn’t have anything that nice in Ikea. Ooh, I’ve been thinking about maybe moving to Edinburgh after i qualify next summer and the prospect of finding lovely things on the street (as opposed to broken beer bottles and half-eaten burgers…) is quite a draw!
Now you have one each- like the old couple in Up, where they both sit in front of the window holding hands
Oh my gosh! I knew the picture reminded me of something! I just saw the film the other day. So bittersweet.
ohh I am impressed! It’s a lovely chair.
Fee x
that is SUCH A FIND. you lucky lady.
Wow, gorgeous. (And I love the panelling behind!).
Ok velvet gives me the hebee gebees but I love love love that chair!! I am envious, officially!
x
What are the chances of that happening?! Great chair – suitably throne-like for the cat.
whoa awesome chair find. i would totally pretend to be the queen of hearts. “I NEED A PIG HERE!”
Seriously how lucky was that?!
Everything takes longer in IKEA it is like a time warp.
Way cool –I’m with Katie, you seriously need a little pig footstool!
SCORE! I can’t believe it was free. I love it.
Love the chair; I never find cool things in Edinburgh!
Laughing at you dodging the tourists though; so true and its only going to get worse come August!
THAT is awesome. I want one! It’s read and velvet, what’s not to like? Well done Zoe!
Gorgeous! Love love love. Looks perfect for curling up in with a good book and a furry cat.
Wow what luck! They go perfectly together
That is lovely – you are so lucky. But also very talented in interior design – I’m not sure I would have recognised the potential.