Sandy Gulch

We always like to shop at Sandy Gulch furniture store as they have a great selection of very old oak furniture. And we like the owner of the store as well, ever since Denise took us there some years ago. Since he is open on Saturdays and Sundays only, we don’t get there as often as we like. But a few weeks ago, we stopped by and saw this drop leaf (or gate leg) table with barley twist legs and two chairs and Laurae said she had seen it earlier and thought it might be right for our bedroom. Well, it is and it looks great in there, especially now that Laurae has done a beautiful job of upholstering and the chairs have been restored to their former beauty. I have also spent some time looking up the possible value of this set; as we paid only $350 for it. I saw one (table only) in Australia for $900 and one in the UK (table only) for approximately $4,000. During the search for information I also found that the finish of the oak is called “fumed oak” and it was done by exposing the oak to ammonia fumes. This information comes from a story about horses and urine and furniture making that I won't go into...