Well, what do we have here?

We’ve been sitting on this post for about a month now while we wrapped up the posts about the nook. But now it’s time to share some good news.

So our search for Thonet bentwood chairs has been going on for a while now. It became a bit of an obsession. Wait, did I just use past tense? Oh dear blog reader, just keep reading (yes, we know that the only people reading this are both of our moms and some dude who keeps googling behr black suede door).

The search has spanned over 2 blogs. We bought 2 different types of bentwoods once accidentally. And we started to go into a state of antique depression. We asked god why all the bentwoods have disappeared when we needed them so desparately.

Then, about a month ago, we decided that we were going to spend a day trying new antique stores looking for bentwoods. Our thought process was this: we generally stick to the same haunts and the bentwoods were nowhere to be found. They didn’t seem to restock fast enough. So we were going to try our luck at some new places. We decided on the max we were willing to pay ($40 per chair) and set out.

We were on a mission and we had a plan(this is not common). We would not stop until we found our bentwoods (or 2pm, cause Ramona needed to be picked up from Mother’s Day Out).

The first place on our list was the historic camp bowie mercantile. We took a stroll around the store and didn’t find much until we walked by this booth:

Do you see them? They’re glorious!

That’s right, 6 matching bentwoods (the one at the back with the arms wasn’t included in the 6). We need 8. We already had 3 in the same style, so 6 would be great.

The price was $270 for all six, but we decided to play it cool and ask what the lowest price they’d accept is. After the people at the mercantile talked to the vendor, she said she’d take 20% off. We totally would have paid full price, so $216 was music to our ears (that’s $36 per chair)!

Once we figured out a way to stick 6 chairs in the back of our Prius, were headed home. Well not quite, we actually got the new rug for the nook the same day (we were on a roll yo)

So what did we learn from this little exercise? That having favorite antique shops is great, but when you are on the lookout for something specific it’s better to cast a wider net.

Update: Read about what we did with our bentwoods here and here.