On Sun 13 Jan 2008 09:34:13p, Goomba38 told us...

> 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
>

Could be... At least it wasn't slipcovered in vinyl. :-)

Although I have done color schemes that included shades of rose that were
really quite pretty.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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Date: Sunday, 01(I)/13(XIII)/08(MMVIII)
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