Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> When I was a kid we had quite a few pieces of vinyl upholstered furniture
> in our basement rec room. However, that vinyl was made to imitate the look
> of leather, both in texture and color. Mom wouldn't put real leather down
> there for fear of mildew.
>
My dad lived in a house in O.B, LI that was built by a sea captain. When
we went into the attic there were no nails in the construction- it was
all pegs! Very cool old house. Anyway, a lot of the furnishing were also
passed down from people who lived in this house, some probably inherited
from the great estates or they bought the furniture many years before I
ever saw it. There was one very comfortable settee or sofa that I never
knew what it actually looked like because it had a sturdy slip cover
over it. But it was almost chenille like material and not vinyl in any
fashion! Only years later did they remove the slip cover and I saw that
the sofa was actually a rose colored fabric....which could be almost as
bad as vinyl, eh? Perhaps *that* is why they covered it? LOL