While cleaning out the basement here at the new place, I found an old chair. It was missing the upholstery, but I quite liked the style of the chair itself. Then one afternoon, the fellow from the Thrift Store was here to pick up more boxes of stuff and he was with me in the basement. He saw the chair and mentioned that someone had dropped off 3 chairs exactly like it, earlier that day.
The chairs are old, that I can tell. I was thinking I would love to have four of these chairs! When we sell this house, I would like to stage it as much as possible with antique furniture. So I went down to the thrift store and bought those 3 chairs.
Now, I would like to know a bit more about them. I thought they were the Queen Ann style but after checking around on the Internet, I don’t think they are. Does anyone know anything about these chairs?
Since the master bedroom here is quite large, I would like to put two of the chairs facing the patio windows in there. The other two can go in the other bedrooms or maybe even in the living room.
I have still been very busy. My father in law was here for a week and he was a great help! Finally, we are all finished at the other rental house and I met with the landlord last evening and got the damage deposit refunded. So now my whole day can be spent at the new place, so I am hoping I can get more accomplished every day! I am still working on the master bedroom and the enclosed porch and I will put up some pictures when the rooms are finished.


I just did a search on Google Images for “antique parlour chairs” and a lot of similar looking chairs appeared. Try this website: check out the second photo.
http://antiquehunter.blogspot.ca/2010/10/civil-war-era-parlor-chairs.html
I hope that your mystery will be solved. Either way, they are pretty chairs!
Thanks Brenda for that link. I checked it out and they certainly look the same. I want to get them reupholstered, but I think it will be awhile before that happens.
Thought I already left this message.
Anyway I think you call this style of chair a slipper chair. Not sure if it would be considered victorian because I can’t tell if there is any scroll work or fancy carving on the wood.
These will be beautiful when you recover them . Good luck with your search .
Hi Krystal, someone gave me a link to check out and it had pictures of the chair on that link. They are Victorian, I think it was (of course, now that I want to find the link, I can’t, but it was on my Facebook page). I found some beautiful fabric upstairs and wonder if the previous owners were going to use that for the one chair they had. Now I have 4 chairs, and there won’t be enough, but I will use it for something, it is gorgeous!