Vintage Home Furniture

If you have a home entertainment center that looks more like a dresser, what is this piece of furniture called It is more vertical than horizontal. It has many smallish compartments and even drawers. The small T.V. only barely fits into the biggest space. Is this piece of furniture called a home entertainment center? It looks more like a dresser. What is another word for it?

arranging furniture in a 900 sq ft home? I have a 900 sf home and a large entertainment center with a large couch. My living room and diningroom are in the same room. very close to each other. I am having trouble rearranging my furniture. I have tried to sell my entertainment center but cant sell it. what should i do and how can i rearrange my furniture? I want my house to feel cozy and warm when you walk in. I would like to add that my living/diningroom is only 12x25

Where can I buy a replacement black, cardboard backing for my entertainment center? Office supply stores have small poster boards, I don't want to go to home depot and have to cut or paint something. Any ideas? Someplace has to sell the backing that the furniture sellers use. I need black on black.

does any one know of a pawn shop or place that will come to my home and make on offer on my furniture..etc? To be more specific, I have a storage unit that has various furniture in it, from a couch, to a t.v, to an entertainment center. Nothing is super fabulous, but I dont want to just junk it. There use to be places like pawn shops that would by this stuff. I want to know if there are any places still like that. Someone who who will meet me at my storage, look what's in there and offer me a flat amount, and then take the stuff with them. I am in the San Jose area, in California.

Cheap furniture for my home? I live in Ohio, if it matters. My fiance and i are moving here in a few months and we're getting rid of all our hand-me-downs from when we moved in with each other 3 years ago. We're a young couple and we don't want to shell out too much money. We're looking for: End Tables for $90 MAX! Entertainment Centers $200 MAX! Kitchen Tables $100-200 MAX! A nice comfy couch! What are some good store OR even websites to go to .. BESIDES wal mart .. unless you've bought something really sturdy from their dont put that down .. everything i buy from there falls apart! THANX and best answers goes to best website/store. =)

what to do about new furniture just bought with missing pieces? I bought a new entertainment center at Ikea and am missing half of it. after getting home and trying to assemble it I realized that i only have 1 of 2 boxes needed to assemble it and i no longer have the reciept. what can i do?

What color furniture for brown sofa and blue accent color (a silver accessories)? I recently purchased my first home. I bought a brown sofa and the accent color is a nice blue. There are also some silver accents throughout the area. The home has an open floor plan, so the kitchen sits off the dining area. The kitchen has light wood cabinets. I need a dining table and an entertainment center (flat screen tv stand w/ two towers). I saw a a black dining set and tv stand which I love, but wasn't sure if they would work with my color scheme. Or should I do dark wood for those pieces? let me know your thoughts!

decoration ideas, for my new home? I'm getting ready to purchase my first home. I need some ideas for color schemes, etc. The bathroom is taken care of- the bottom part of the wall is to be a regular/dark purple perhaps tiled, the top half is to be painted a light purple to lighten up the room. The toothbrush and soap holders are the same and the shower curtain is the darker purple. Is it ok? As far as the rest of the house we will redo bit by bit. We like sort of the modern stuff and bright colors. Nothing too drabby. Living room- The entertainment center and end tables are black the tv and speakers are silver/black....please create something with this. Bedroom-the furniture is a medium colored wood Bedroom 2 and 3....one will be guest room one will be office/storage kitchen-anything goes Most creative/unique, hot, wins 10 pts Thanks! if one room were to be decorated with a mexican theme..which should it be...i am refering to sombrero and the Mexican throws you see at restaurants

How to arrange furniture in a VERY small living room? My living room is substantially smaller than most of the rooms in my 100+ year old home. I am at a loss as to how to arrange the furnishings! No matter how I do it, it just looks cramped and crowded and boring. The room measures 10' by 20'. All I have in the room is a sofa, sofa chair, side table, coffee table, and the entertainment center. The design of the room makes it hard to turn the sofa at a diagonal, because there is a large archway to the dining room at one end, and a staircase at the other end, my front door on the one side, and entry to the hall on the other side. Are there any good design websites that you know of? Or what would you suggest (i.e. getting rid of some of the pieces or replacing them)? Thanks!!

Focal point: Fireplace vs entertainnment center? We are looking into buying a home with a corner fireplace in the family room. We'd like to put our entertainment center in there as well. I'm just not sure how to arrange our furniture to enjoy the beautiful fireplace, yet still make sense for watching TV. It seems they can't both be the focal point, so I'm stumped. Any ideas or links to suggested furniture layouts would be appreciated, thank you.

Where to BUY good FURNITURE? i bought 6000$ worth of ashly furniture a few months ago and its already falling apart1 SO today i went looking for livingroom furniture and every stores prices are so different. 1 entertainment center was 2800$ the guy told me, while he was getting some books he left his book on the table the warehouse price was 1800$ THAT was for a broyhill chateau calais entertainment center, now i go home and look up the reviews they are all poor? furniture falls aprt. so where do i get quility furniture today for a decent price like he old days?

Is this fair?......? I live in an apartment with a couple other guys, one of them isnt supposed to live here but we have an extra bedroom and he pays half of what we pay for rent. I am moving out next month because I am graduating college and moving in with my girlfriend to get away from the college scene, drinking (i dont drink) and everything else that goes along with it. I wont be at the apartment too much during this month and I told them that I dont want to pay for cable and electricity because I wont be here (our other roomate moved back home for the summer and he doesnt pay those bills while he's gone.) So my roomates told me that I should pay the bills because I stop by here and there for a couple hours at a time. (between classes and work). Everything here is mine, the TV, the entertainment center, the furniture. I told them that I was going to cancel the cable because I wont be here but they told me to keep it on (its under my name). Do you think I should have to pay for the bills?

How do you put your foot down on suspected competition between families? Everything seems to be a competition between my mother in law and her three daugthers (no father) and my husband, me and my daughter. Examples: 1. My mother in law "coincidentally" tried losing weight a week after I gave birth. She knew I had a talk with my husband about my weight. 2. She comes to my house, looks around, goes home and buys things for her house that are similiar. She never had an area rug and never cared about furniture, etc. Now she kept our entertainment center that we had stored there because she liked it so much, and bought an area rug, coffee table, lamps, etc. 3. She calls to "update" our family on her job status and her salary. 4.In a convo. with other family, they asked my hubby and me if we were having more babies. I said I wasn't sure. My MIL interrupted and said, "i don't think so, one is enough." She has 4 kids, and I feel like she's competing over who's the better parent. I don't even know if she's aware of how competitive she is. It even goes as far as vacations- who takes a better one- who brings back the most gifts and $$ spent... etc. It gets on my nerves but I don't know how to be proper and address it without feeding into it.

what would you do if your boyfriend gave out your adress to a stranger on the internet? We advertised a furniture item for sale on craigs list and we got a reply right away from someon saying that their client needs wants to buy it and telling us that they will send a money order for it and also include cost of shipping too and his commissions for finding the furniture for his client (this is just a commong entertainment center) and he said we would just need to cash it and send him the money for the shipping and his commissions and then he would send someone over with a truck to pick it up???!!! I was not fooled one bit so I told him to go take a hike and that I know they are just scam artists, well then I found out after the fact that while I was at work my stupid boyfriend gave them our adress and apartment #. I have heard of home invasions happening to people when they were selling things because they crooks figured they probably had cash and valubles that they could steel but I have also heard that most scams of this nature are people in other countries.

Does Anyone Else Have This Problem??? When I was a kid my parents never let us have pets. They kept a relatively clean house and always refused to put up with the mess that animals make; also, my brother and I were bad enough. I always complained that I wanted a pet and couldn't understand Mom and Dad's logic against it -- until now. Today, as an adult in a house full of filthy animals, I see my parents' point of view. My wife is a big animal lover and has passed this trait to our nine-year-old daughter. To date we have one dog, three cats, two birds, one hamster, and nine goldfish. At one time we had four birds and twelve hamsters. At the time I started to cohabitate with my wife -- about ten years ago, when I was thirty-two -- she had only two cats and two birds, and I think my stepson had hamsters or mice. Other than the occasional cat hair in the butter dish or skidmarks on my pillowcase, I tolerated the mess. (Being in a new relationship, one doesn't always bitch and complain a lot if one wants to get laid.) I think the first time I lost it was when my wife hung the birdcage from the kitchen ceiling and the birds would flutter around, their feathers, food, and fecal matter leaving the cage and landing wherever... sometimes in the dinner I was ready to eat. But that was nothing compared with my life these days. And it's not only the freaky fecal episodes of the animals that bother me. Growing up, the only time I experienced fecal matter in the house was in the bathroom. Today I experience it everywhere. I'm no angel, and I will admit that living with my gas attacks is no picnic, and that I can destroy a toilet with the best of them; but my wife and my daughter and the all the animals are driving me nuts. The Wife. A lot of women are shy about shitting and farting in front of others, especially their significant other. I once dated a girl for five years and never recall hearing her fart; I don't think she ever dropped a load. I like that sort of woman. Don't get me wrong -- I enjoy a good tale from a female, but I prefer the woman I live with and fuck to be fecal free. Well, after over ten years together, my wife has no shame in ripping massive farts and leaving skid marks on the toilet seat; and believe me, she can stink up a bathroom as good as any man. The Child. A few years back I told P how my wife was always the one on cleanup detail after our daughter dropped a loaf. Our daughter is now nine years old and finally she wipes her own ass; but she will only use wet wipes. Since we don't want a garbage can full of stinky, shit-crusted wipes, we buy the "flushable wipes," and those suckers ain't cheap. This damn wet wipe addiction is forcing my daughter into a life of Shameful Shitting. It seems that nearly every time I pick her up from school she wants to rush home immediately due to the fact that she was been "holding it" all day. She just refuses to use the dry toilet paper at school. I love the child and want her to be happy, but I have certainly survived using dry paper for over forty years... and those flushable wet wipes are expensive... The Dog. Dixie, our four-year-old sheltie, rarely has an accident. I can't remember the last time she shit in the house -- probably not since she was a pup. This dog can really hold a load and has an iron bladder; I've witnessed her go up to eighteen hours without pissing. My problem with the dog is that she shits ALL OVER the yard. Instead of squatting and dropping a pile, Dixie will drop a nugget, move a foot, drop a nugget, move a foot, and continue this up to twenty times per defecation. The dog spends a fair amount of time outside and when she sees a stranger or hears something odd she will run around like a maniac, galloping through her own shit, mud, and whatever else is on the ground. The dog will then come into the house, run on the carpet, and jump on the furniture and the beds with her dookie-covered paws. What burns me is that my wife has the nerve to bitch me out if I walk on the carpet with my shoes on -- even after I wiped them. The only other thing about this dog is that Dixie is a cat shit eater. I have on occasion caught her with her head in the litter box. We feed the dog well, but I guess kitty poop is a doggie delicacy. Cat One. Max is fourteen years old, blind, and has chronic diarrhea. The vet told my wife four years ago to put Max to sleep and out of his misery; but the wife just won't submit. This cat can really blast ass -- once he shot a watery load all over the side of the dryer about two feet from the ground. This cat shits and pukes everywhere. He tries to make it to the litter box but often he "craps out" or gets confused. About a month ago my wife spent $700 on a new living room chair that has now become Max's favorite spot to sleep. I have witnessed him use the litter box and immediately head for this new chair, his ass hair crusted in liquid poop. The cat also uses the new chair as a scratching post and has already frayed several threads. Cat Two. Ziggy is an outdoor cat. He only has three legs -- he lost a front leg to cancer about four years ago. He can still kill birds and moles and he gets in his share of raccoon fights... he is a tough old bastard. Everyone in the neighborhood feeds him; he will disappear for up to five days at a time and come home happy and well fed. Since the cat is getting older my wife tries to keep Ziggy inside, especially during bad weather, but the cat will let out this fucking annoying cry and scratch at the door. If that doesn't work, Ziggy has a trick that will surely gets us to boot his ass outside: he will shamelessly shit in front of us. Many a time my wife has insisted on keeping Ziggy inside for his own good, like after he gets his ass kicked by a raccoon. This makes the cat rebel and the rotten prick will walk right up to us, perhaps when we are watching the tube, look us dead in the eye, and blatantly drop a steaming pile. Last year when we went on vacation we kept all three cats in the basement for a week. My stepson and parents came over daily to feed the cats. Ziggy shat all over the basement regularly and refused to use the litter box. My stepson told us that one day he stopped over and Ziggy made several attempts to get outside. After the cat gave up he lay down on his side, looked at my stepson, and just squeezed out a monster log. Cat Three. Puss-Puss is only two years old and is still mischievous. My only problem with her is that she will use the litter box after Max paints it with diarrhea, and then she'll sit on the furniture with kitty litter and Max's dung all over her backside. The Birds. As I said earlier, all kinds of crap flies from bird cages. We started out two years ago with one male canary, and that was tolerable. When the thing stopped singing my wife figured it was lonely. We bought an inexpensive companion -- a male finch. The two birds would fight regularly, so my wife bought another cage in order to separate the birds. Now we had two lonely birds. My wife's solution was to go out and buy a female canary and a female finch. We had to keep the cages at the highest point in the house -- on top of our five-foot-high entertainment center -- because Puss Puss desperately wants a bird to chomp on. So the top of the entertainment center, the television, and the DVD player -- not to mention the carpet -- is always littered with bird shit, birdseed, and feathers. Thankfully we managed to get rid of the finches, which cuts down on the mess. The Hamster. The funniest and the grossest display in my house comes courtesy our hamster and his infamous Wheel of Shit. I don't know if anyone is familiar with these newfangled cages in which the hamster exercise wheel is enclosed and on top of the cage. The hamster can climb through a tube to access the wheel, which is sealed except for a few air slits. Hamsters are filthy rodents that drop little turds constantly; needless to say, this wheel is crusted with a trail of smeared crap and the little fucker runs and runs and shits and shits. It is so fucking nasty and, especially at three AM, annoying. I just know fecal matter is flying through those air slits. We keep the hamster cage up next to the birdcage because the Puss Puss also wants that hamster for dinner. I can't believe we haven't caught a weird disease living under these conditions. I panic if I see a fly in the house -- odds are it was just sitting on an animal turd minutes earlier. But I am outnumbered two to one in the household; so I guess I must learn to make all feces my friend, and try and enjoy my household of filth.

Husband going overboard? Yesterday I decided to move furniture around, keep in mind I am 38 weeks pregnant just a few days from being 39 weeks, so I don't see the problem because I know I'm nesting. Wel all I did was push the tv stand over and put the new entertainment center where it was and I didn't lift anything just pushed it around, so it's not like I was doing anything really strenuous. I didn't pick up the tv or anything like that either. Well, my husband got home from work and he went haywire on me because I had done this stuff saying that I could have hurt myself, I told him I didn't get out of breath or feel like I hurt myself, then he started in on me about doing everything else around the house such as vacumming and dishes etc, cleaning the closets and then I had to go to work, so he's just all mad at me because he's saying I've been doing to much and don't relax. But, he's not getting it done and I got sick of looking at the stuff and just wanted to get it done. Is he right?

Ikea Trip #2 or what now? Yesterday I spent 6hrs in Ikea. I took an absurdly long time deciding on the just the right combination of shelving, book cases, etc for my kids playroom. Anyone that shops there will appreciate the time and effort it took me to locate 23 pieces of hardware, right? I get home and my husband says he hates it. "It's not real wood" and he will help me load it all back into the van so I can return it. I paid around $600. I don't believe I could get the same thing made from real wood anywhere and I'm frustrated with him for being so adamant that I just bought crap. What say you? Have you bought furniture from Ikea? Do you think I should stand my ground and put the stuff together anyway, or do you know where I can buy a huge shelving/entertainment center/bookcase for $600? Cheers! Loz-Ikea furniture comes in flat packs, which you locate by code yourself. There's many options to'build' the right combination. It took me so long because I was also shopping for lights to go with it and then I changed my mind twice on the design... Angel-Thank you!