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Good Score! is a weekly feature here at Red House West highlighting our readers’ secondhand finds. If you scored a great bargain at a thrift store, found a treasure on the side of the road, or discovered a one-of-a-kind gem at a yard sale, we’d love to hear about it! Please send a picture and a brief description of what, where and how much to redhousewest@gmail.com -OR- use the hashtag #rhwgoodscore on Instagram and each Friday we’ll share a couple of highlights. To see Good Scores from previous weeks, click here.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted a Good Score this week! It is so fun to see what you’re finding and it has the (not altogether unwelcome) side effect of making me want to go thrifting NOW. Keep your Good Scores coming folks!

I bought this coffee table on a Facebook group called Coosville. I paid $20 for it and couldn’t believe my luck. It needed a little help but luckily my friend Sean is a woodworker and lightly sanded and polished the top for me. It’s still a little beat up but I like it that way.

-Brandi

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From Katie’s Aunt Cindy:

Your love of creating and DIY projects is in your genetics, Katie, and I hear in yours as well, Mera.

I am sharing a Good Score by Katie’s grandmother, Mary Elizabeth, in 1936. She loved finding

bargains and refinished her furniture finds herself. Below is what we call the ‘curio cabinet,’

two separate pieces that she found in second hand stores and put together after refinishing them.

They are of maple, cherry and a 3rd unknown wood, and of Eastlake design.

-Cindy

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A cradle, scored for $4.99 from the Goodwill store in Silverdale, Washington just the other day. In a toy section dominated by pink and purple television-themed plastic, I found this sturdy little cradle in a jumble of outdoor toys. Heavy, it rocks well and is decorated with many coats of shiny enamel paint. Someone added charming decals – flowers and butterflies. I’ve been thinking about who lovingly made it out of thick wood cut into curved shapes and covered the screws with wooden buttons. Like I do with all Good Scores, I wonder how it began life? For now, with its new flannel bedding, I think I know some baby dolls who will be mighty pleased!

-Katy

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Have a wonderful weekend!

Good Score! is a weekly feature here at Red House West highlighting our readers’ secondhand finds. If you scored a great bargain at a thrift store, found a treasure on the side of the road, or discovered a one-of-a-kind gem at a yard sale, we’d love to hear about it! Please send a picture and a brief description of what, where and how much to redhousewest@gmail.com and each Friday we’ll share a couple of highlights.

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted a Good Score this week! Some real gems landed in our email inbox, so let’s get started, shall we?

Purchased at favorite second-hand store in Anchorage, Alaska, I think I paid about $7 and can’t remember when, but a long time ago. Not a steal, this purchase, but oh the cultural history in this battered tin. Years and years worth of cookies have failed to sweeten these visages. In spite of communing with them daily for so long, I am longing to replace them with a Kate and William tin for our “biscuits”! -Katy G.

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We found these Fire King “delphite blue” party dishes at Cone Ball Antiques in Eugene, OR. That Saturday morning they held a $1-$5 sale to celebrate the opening of the Saturday Market. These two milk glass plates from the late 50’s were marked $1.00. Turns out, they fit right into our dining room decor, the blue offsetting the orange walls and the gold rim matching our tableware and chandelier very nicely. We put them to the test and loved them so much we found more on Ebay–also very reasonably priced. A great score not only for the price, but because we discovered one of the most elusive pieces to our dining room puzzle. -Tiffany

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I had the dream of having a beach house. I planned to decorate it from thrift stores, yard sales… Where else? The plan was for 50’s – 60’s, the tackier the better. I had visions of plastic curtains with strawberries, bizarre dish towels (which I have), a chrome dinette set with boomerangs, lots of sand on the floor… Life has a way of intervening and the beach house took a different form. The plastic curtains didn’t go with us. But there’s a beach wherever we are, right? First we have “Violet” (for obvious reasons) and next is “Clarice” (for no obvious reason). -Carol S. M.

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