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HELPING OLD LAWN GLIDERS GLIDE

Sometimes you cannot see the forest for the trees.  Having two mid-century two person sized lawn gliders made by the same manufacturer, I was comparing them yesterday.  One is my very first glider.  I… more →

Waste as a Way of Life

HELPING OLD LAWN GLIDERS GLIDE

leemalerich wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes you cannot see the forest for the trees.  Having two mid-century two person sized lawn gli … more →

Tags: Art, DIY, Garden, Gliders, metal lawn chair styles, mid century collectibles, old porch gliders, porch swings, repairing old gliders

INTELLECTUAL PAIRS

leemalerich wrote 2 months ago: Don’t know what else to call them.  The pairings are not of objects of the same shape, color, … more →

Tags: Art, Junking, metal sculpture, sculpture with action, metal lawn chair styles, collecting, matching things, displaying things together, organizing collections

PRESERVING OLD HISTORIES — 10 comments

leemalerich wrote 4 months ago: We have three old desks and none of them have their drawers.  The drawer is the weakest link probabl … more →

Tags: Art, DIY, Home Renovation, old porch gliders, porch swings, Porches, front porches, living outside, using old furniture

MUSICAL CHAIRS — 6 comments

leemalerich wrote 7 months ago: Installing the new exterior door created some glider movement.  Now that there are so many here, and … more →

Tags: Art, Garden, Gliders, porch swings, old porch gliders, LINEAR SCULPTURE, metal sculpture, Home Renovation, using old doors

EXTERIOR DOOR — 2 comments

leemalerich wrote 7 months ago: Less work is required if you do two things at once.  As always, new gliders have to be integrated in … more →

Tags: Art, Garden, Gliders, Home Renovation, House renovation, landscaping after construction, moving bushes in a garden, old porch gliders, porch swings

WHAT DO THESE GLIDERS HAVE IN COMMON? — 3 comments

leemalerich wrote 7 months ago: No side table necessary. … more →

Tags: Art, collecting, Gliders, old porch gliders, porch swings, armrests, pattern on gliders, similarities in gliders, Wine

GOOD BONES

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: A little crazy recently about clear coating most of our collection of old lawn chairs and gliders, I … more →

Tags: Art, self expression, pattern, Gliders, Textiles, old porch gliders, dinette sets, aluminum chairs from WWII, hammered aluminum

PRESERVING THE SURFACES OF OLD LAWN CHAIRS — 2 comments

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: The chair on the left has been clear coated with very strong and very expensive hazardous polymer.  … more →

Tags: auto restoration, DIY, Garden, Gliders, metal lawn chair styles, old porch gliders, surfaces of old metal lawn chairs, truck restoration, Antiques Roadshow

SCORE! — 1 comment

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: I paid more for this group from my local flea market than any other old glider and chairs.  Still it … more →

Tags: DIY, dumpster diving, Gliders, Junking, metal lawn chair styles, old porch gliders, pattern, surfaces of old metal lawn chairs, wabisabi

HOW TO RESTORE VINTAGE METAL LAWN/PORCH CHAIRS — 2 comments

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: Many want to know how to do this, and my husband is helping me to put this information out.  He is t … more →

Tags: DIY, Gliders, Junking, old porch gliders, recycling, Welding, repairing old metal lawn chairs, tools for repairing old metal lawn chairs, using retro furniture

CRAYON METAL LAWN CHAIR

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: This chair is proving to have amazingly strong bones once the excess paint has been removed to revea … more →

Tags: recycling, Gliders, metal recyclables, old porch gliders, DIY, dumpster diving, outdoors, how to repair retro metal lawn chairs, repairing old gliders

KEEPING MY GLIDER AESTHETIC — 2 comments

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: Having found three metal lawn chairs in a dumpster last weekend, a new problem has been presented.  … more →

Tags: recycling, Junking, Gliders, old porch gliders, DIY, dumpster diving, how to restore metal lawn chairs, Aesthetics, excess paint

DUMPSTER DIVING — 7 comments

leemalerich wrote 8 months ago: First time I ever did this was with my friend Betsy;  we were looking for tile in a dumpster outside … more →

Tags: Junking, Gliders, saving money in renovation, construction excess, dinette sets, dumpster diving, DIY, Home, old lawn chairs

A PAIR OF FINE CHAIRS — 3 comments

leemalerich wrote 11 months ago: My friend Zoe has been my garden guru for years.  She happens to live in a funky little neighborhood … more →

Tags: Art, Brick Patios, Garden, Gliders, Junking, Lifestyle, old porch gliders, porch swings, recycling

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

leemalerich wrote 1 year ago: Now this kind of sports fan I can understand. ” Cubs” is spray painted on this glider.  … more →

Tags: recycling, Art, Junking, Art & Media, Garden, Gliders, porch swings, metal recyclables, old porch gliders

A FINE GLIDER EXAMPLE — 2 comments

leemalerich wrote 1 year ago: It had to happen.   Sooner or later I would run out of my own gliders to write about.   Problem solv … more →

Tags: Junking, Lifestyle, Garden, Gliders, porch swings, metal recyclables, old porch gliders, The outdoors, @ vacation

GLIDER LADY — 3 comments

leemalerich wrote 1 year ago: Around my home “city”  (more like a community as they call it here;  to us, it is a cros … more →

Tags: Art, Junking, Lifestyle, pattern, Gliders, porch swings, wabisabi, Textiles, metal recyclables

GLIDERS AND BRICKS — 4 comments

leemalerich wrote 1 year ago: Our acreage has a theme going, as established here earlier.  Gliders and old metal chairs gather aro … more →

Tags: Art, Junking, self expression, Garden, Gliders, porch swings, auto restoration, Aqua, old porch gliders

GLIDER EYEBALL ADDICT — 3 comments

leemalerich wrote 1 year ago: This is the view out the study window, where my writing takes place.  You have already seen the glid … more →

Tags: recycling, Junking, Lifestyle, self expression, House renovation, Garden, Gliders, porch swings, wabisabi


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