Craigslist is littered with asshats who think their doo stained sofas should fetch 1st Dibs prices, but you can’t let that stop you from using the craig for good and not for evil. To be perfectly honest, it’s been a while since I checked in and zoned out on tables and chairs. Today I had a few extra minutes to search for treasure, and I was a little surprised by all the awesomeness I found among the mirrows, rod iron, and chester drawers. Of course, much of said stuff was Knoll and therefore astronomically expensive, but I did find a few cheap and shiny gems. Warning, many crappy pictures shall follow. People, please learn how to use a camera so you can stop making our blog ugly. Thank you.
That’s right. Smoked glass and brass coffee table. $65 here. Shazam!
Mirrored coffee table. Cool shape but those flowers are dumb. It wants to be painted black so badly. Can you help it? $60 here.
Neato chrome chair — would look amazing floating in a room where you could see it from all angles. Gold star for decent photography. $60 here.
I actually opened up photoshop for this, just so you could see the majesty of this sweet little bedroom set in all its glory. $150 here.
It’s got the Mediterranean flava. $35 here.
Pair it with this light. $50 here.
And this rug. $120 here.
And hey, why not this pair (yes, two) of square topped, vintage pedestal tables? $25 here.
Or skip the trad trend and get retro with a pair of square brass mirrored tables. I like these better for our room, anyway. $90 here. The hideous photography is free. You’re welcome.
This will also go nicely in our fantasy room. Antique buffet with clean lines and pretty wood. $75 here.
In a totally different room (like, my living room) lives this huge heavy black lacquer 70s coffee table with BRASS base. $45. Within walking distance of my house. Why have I not bought this again? Did I forget to put the link in? Silly me.
Finally, this is not really cheap ($350 here) but I love the shape. The vaguely southwestern pattern/palette is potentially troubling, but I say you just Nagel the bleep out of that shit.
Perfect! And only $10.
And there you have it. Obviously I have rekindled my craig obsession, which is bad since I need more furniture like Oprah needs more celebrities to tell her how AMAZING!!!! she is. Now go buy one of these things, send me a picture of it in its new home, and I will post it.
As long as the picture is good.
I will trade you one brass-tacular Austin listing for fourteen plaid/cabin/taxidermy Denver listings.
I rather take taxidermy then fugly ass furniture from Ashley Furniture Store any day. ANY.
Dig the brass tables. Hard.
I feel like it’d be rather hard not to have a Craigslist addiction in a city like Austin. So many treasures, I presume.
can you use your super voodoo sleuthing powers to make a glass or lucite console table to appear on Philadelphia’s Craig?
That’d be awesome. Hope you had a fantabulous weekend!!
oh man. i definitely don’t shop craigslist enough! dying over that chrome chair the most.
Thank you for giving me my nursery theme: NAGEL. I need to start playing “Rio” to the womb.
great finds! hahha so funny too.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – no one can craig better than you, Ms. E! AMAZING finds. Almost as AMAZING as Oprah …..
craigslist is crack. I have 11 chairs in my garage right now (waiting patiently to be revamped for new store), two settes, three tables and one chandelier in a box that’s new for a client (and one free chandelier from CL). We paid full price at a real store for the light, but my comment had become a descrption of what was in my garage and so I couldn’t stop.
But yes, I can’t stop CL’ing. I think it’s a disease. A bad one. My husband hates it.
This is awesome. And the link to that light doesn’t work (it goes to the photo file) – I need it in order to convince my husband we need to buy it for our guest bedroom!! More austin CL listings, please
(and we need a truck, badly – so many things on CL we don’t get because our car is too small for anything)
Yes! CL lives! Just scored a tubular metal dinette set from the Craig for $35! Totally plan to refurb with spray paint and ghetto staple gun reupholstering job. Since I have a 3 mos old and still don’t bathe before 5pm it should happen east of fucking never o’clock but at least it’s in MY basement so no one else can have it.
Oh, and The Hub and I got in a huge fight about picking up a free CL jacuzzi. My argument being “its free!” and his being “are you out of your mind?!” a fight we will have next weekend if it’s still available.
how did you not buy number one? it is coffee table nirvana.
Please, please, please tell me that you bought the smoked glass and brass coffee table. It’s fantastic!
[...] live in Austin, so I always enjoy reading their CL finds. A few weeks ago, I saw this post: Austin Craigslist, Cheapskate Edition. I fell in love with the star light on their list and eagerly clicked over to the CL ad. However, [...]
[...] live in Austin, so I always enjoy reading their CL finds. A few weeks ago, I saw this post: Austin Craigslist, Cheapskate Edition. I fell in love with the star light on their list and eagerly clicked over to the CL ad. However, [...]