This past Friday, Chris and I went to a couple of estate sales. Meh! But, on the way home from eating at Bobby J's in Helotes...the best burger joint ever....we stopped at a new thrift store on Culebra. This place is very hole in the wall...the sign outside is like the plastic one you would put outside for a garage sale. No joke....it's black with the words garage sale printed in red. Once we walked in I felt like walking right back out. The cigarette smoke was THAT bad. It permeated everything. We spent about ten minutes in there...long enough for me to find a piece of furniture that totally rocks! It's a large wood end table with intricate wooden carvings on all four sides. One side acts as a door. The top piece opens up so you can put throw pillows or record albums or whatever you want in there for storage. It already housed five vintage pillows that smelled like, you guessed it, lung cancer. The tag said $25, but I brought the price down to twenty. With my t-shirt over mouth and nose, I pointed to it and asked Chris to pay for it as I waited in the truck. Every minute we were in there it was like we were smoking a pack of cigarettes. Once we got home, I took it out and wiped it clean with a towel and Lemon Fresh pledge. Good as new! Then, Chris put it in the corner of the dining/office area of our living room and I placed a set of Indian pillows that I found off of Craiglist inside. I love this piece! I imagine World Market would sell something similar for $100-150. Overall, the thrift store had a good selection of furniture, but I would suggest going only if you intended it as your final stop of the day and were going to go home and take a long and hot shower immediately after. I took a couple of pictures once we got it home and cleaned up. Note: To fit it in the corner we had to position the top at an angle. It also needs some refinishing and I plan on replacing the knob. I think I'll get one from Anthropologie seeing is that's all I can afford from there.
