hooverwheelaway
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Ugh!
I've died and gone to heaven! I LOOOOVE the Heywood Wakefield...
I have some vintage furniture of my own... This Bedroom set was purchased by my grandparents in 1949, for $382.00.
I think it was in 2002 that my grandmother was ready to get rid of it, and I was ready to re-do my bedroom. I chose a vintage theme... and I was able to talk her into letting me have the set (she kind-of scrateched her head as to why I would want the stuff)... It's all birdseye maple, and the pictures don't do the pieces justice.
I can't even begin to put into words how much it means to me... to have been given these pieces of furniture.
In 1949 they paid:
$78 for the bed (headboard, footboard, frame)
$116 per dresser (they bought two of the same dresser)
$36 per nightstand (two of these)
I also have the mirrors which can be hung above each of the dressers, and glass tops for the nightstands and dressers. (One of the dressers is in my closet, as I didn't have enough floor-space for the second one.)
Here's the bed and nightstands:

I've died and gone to heaven! I LOOOOVE the Heywood Wakefield...
I have some vintage furniture of my own... This Bedroom set was purchased by my grandparents in 1949, for $382.00.
I think it was in 2002 that my grandmother was ready to get rid of it, and I was ready to re-do my bedroom. I chose a vintage theme... and I was able to talk her into letting me have the set (she kind-of scrateched her head as to why I would want the stuff)... It's all birdseye maple, and the pictures don't do the pieces justice.
I can't even begin to put into words how much it means to me... to have been given these pieces of furniture.
In 1949 they paid:
$78 for the bed (headboard, footboard, frame)
$116 per dresser (they bought two of the same dresser)
$36 per nightstand (two of these)
I also have the mirrors which can be hung above each of the dressers, and glass tops for the nightstands and dressers. (One of the dressers is in my closet, as I didn't have enough floor-space for the second one.)
Here's the bed and nightstands:
