You are welcome to ask me questions pertaining to the remodel.
It is hard to believe that there were a couple of Juhl chairs in that place. The Danes went to lengths to guarantee modern furniture was not displayed with traditional at their large retailers who sold both. And then the buyers took them home and did just that.
Well, the previous owner brought them to his weekend home from his office when he retired. I think he worked for Time on a publication dealing with modern architecture. The home was built in 46 in an area where modernism was not really embraced. We feel lucky though to have a home like this that has total privacy in a natural setting. We have much to do to the house and the surrounding land but now that our kitchen and bedroom are mostly finished we absolutely love it.
They had four chairs in total, I wasn't surprised to see them in the home on our first visit as the home was rather modern but of course the other furniture and, well everything else was a bit grating.
We now have a dog and a cat, I have a proper studio and most importantly four Finn Juhl chairs.
Nice transformation! I am always, ALWAYS happen to see orange knotty pine paneling get painted. I hate that stuff. Did you have to seal it with shellac primer? Sometimes it's already shellacked.
Were those asbestos tiles on the floor? Did you get rid of them or encase them? I've dealt with those too. Yech.
Good luck with your renovations. I've done major renovations on four homes now (which I think is two more after I swore never to go through that again?) It's so rewarding in the end. And what a windfall on the Finn Juhl chairs! I see a lot of furniture in odd context or altered in some weird way and there's always an explanation that makes perfect sense from that particular owner's perspective.
I would have preferred to take the paneling out all together but it would have been a bigger project than I wanted to deal with. We are already having to do that in the rest of the house because the paneling has a pattern that is unsalvageable. The tiles thankfully weren't asbestos and were easy to rip up to lay the wood. I remodeled my apartment when I was younger and once again to sell it about two years ago and that was a lot easier but then again it was 400 sq feet. The results are/ will be worth it and were starting to see the end to the tunnel so I'm feeling pretty good. Thank you all so much for the input and support.
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