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 #rhwgood score on Instagram and each Friday we’ll share a couple of highlights.

It is our fourth week of posting Good Scores, and it has been so fun to receive pictures and stories about your found and thrifted treasures (if you missed out, you can see previous Good Score! posts here). For this week we wanted to tell you about a few recent good scores of our own, and to let you know that you can now submit your Good Scores to us through Instagram.  Simply upload a photo of your thrifted treasure to Instagram, and add the hashtag #rhwgoodscore. Send us pictures! Please and thank you!

From Mera:

This weekend I found a chair on Craigslist that I am really pleased about.  The majority of the population in Alaska moved here in the 1980s, so the furniture you find here is . . . wait for it  . . . 80s.  When this handsome non-80s fellow appeared for $30 I jumped at it (him).

It is solid, oak I think, with some really beautiful details.  The finish is pretty yucky and at some point I’ll do something about that.

The woman I bought it from upholstered the cushions herself, and they are a sight to behold!

For now I have the bottom cushion covered with a white plaid wool blanket, but someday I’ll get a thinner cushion and properly upholster it.

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My second Good Score! is a pretty little tea towel I bought at a favorite antique store for $5.  It has an intricately embroidered crewel peach on it:

I cannot begin to imagine embroidering something this fine on a towel used for drying dishes and hands.  I have been working on a crewel embroidery project off and on for 15 years, and I can tell you that if I ever manage to finish it no one will wipe their hands on it and expect to keep them.

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From Katie:

Well, I dragged home another down-on-its-luck shell chair – it was $20 on Craigslist – though this one is a Herman Miller office chair rather than a tulip chair. The upholstery is in less dire straits than the tulip chair (no goat beards!), but it is covered in stains of indeterminate origin. I’d prefer that the origin remain indeterminate, but I’d sure like those stains to go away.

So cute!…but also ew

I’m going to try giving the chair a good steam cleaning and cross my fingers that gets rid of the worst of the stains. I really hope it does! I’d love to keep the green upholstery. Happily, the fiberglass shell and the wheels are in great shape and the chair is really comfortable.

The Herman Miller stamp on the speckled charcoal-colored fiberglass

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I found this amazing acid-yellow bowl yesterday at a vintage store. This store is usually pretty pricy – they definitely know what they’re selling – so it’s rare that I can afford something there or that it would qualify as a Good Score, but this bowl had some little chips in the glaze and they were asking $10.

I love the little pedestal and its relaxed shape

It says ‘made in Italy’ on the bottom, but I don’t know anything more about it than that. Well, I do know that it makes my heart sing.

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Thanks for checking out our Good Scores!  Please send us yours – either to redhousewest@gmail.com, or by uploading them to Instagram with the hashtag #rhwgoodscore – we’d love to see what you’re finding and to feature it here on Red House West. Thanks, and happy weekend!